Anglický jazyk

The Papaya King

Vydavateľstvo: Jackson Heights Press
Rok vydania: 2019
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 203 x 133 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781733258531

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13.20 €

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O knihe

"An eccentric outsider is baffled by contemporary Manhattan in this engrossing second novel" by Adam Pelzman. -Kirkus Reviews
Bobby Walser's tragic childhood has left him a man frozen in time and mired in a world of his own making-one that has little in common with reality. Genteel and old-fashioned, his manners and habits are more suited to an aristocrat from a Chekhov play than to a young man on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
Haunted by his failure to live up to the legacy of his great father, Walser's sense of ineffectuality is compounded when he suffers a series of deflating professional setbacks. He's baffled by the people around him, and his only solace is the hope of a romance-conducted via handwritten letters-with a mysterious woman who may not even exist.
As his despair with twenty-first century life reaches a breaking point, Walser bristles at a newly constructed sculpture that represents everything he loathes about these times. Realizing that he has more to care about-and fight for-outside himself, he marches toward a final showdown with this towering symbol of oppressive technology.
"This is another entrancing, deeply memorable offering from Pelzman … Devilishly sharp social commentary." -Kirkus Reviews