All About Lulu
A novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
Evison's debut - of love and loss, growing up, throwing up and moving on - is a stunner. William Miller Jr. is a scrawny loner whose mother dies of cancer when he is seven years old, leaving him an awkward vegetarian with an ominously macho father and idiot...
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Evison's debut - of love and loss, growing up, throwing up and moving on - is a stunner. William Miller Jr. is a scrawny loner whose mother dies of cancer when he is seven years old, leaving him an awkward vegetarian with an ominously macho father and idiot twin brothers in mid-1970s Santa Monica. William's father, Big Bill, remarries a grief counselor named Willow, and Will spends the following decades in love with Louisa (Lulu, as she prefers to be called), his new stepsister. They are close throughout adolescence, but after a summer at cheerleading camp, Lulu returns home distant and hostile, leaving Will to pine for her in solitary desperation. Will finally appears to be on the path to normalcy in the early 1990s when he lucks into a radio talk-show hosting gig, but the stroke of good fortune is short-lived, as he discovers things about Lulu he'd rather not know. Evison provides readers a viciously funny and deeply felt portrayal of a blended family and one man's thwarted longing.
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Weakness has always been a concern for William Miller: growing up vegetarian in a family of bodybuilders will do that to a person. But William is further weakened by the death of his mother, the arrival of a new step-mother, and his irrepressible crush on his new step-sister, Lulu. As Lulu faces down her own challenges, William watches his life shift into tumult and despair. Once Lulu departs for college, Will goes into the world to find himself — discovering Western philosophy, a cruel dating world, enduring friendship, and, ultimately, his true calling. Emboldened by his turn as a late-night radio personality, Will rescues himself from the self-image of weakness he'd long wished to escape. This debut novel explores the fundamental difference between where we come from — and the endless possibilities of where we may go.
Autoren-Porträt von Jonathan Evison
Jonathan Evison, 1968 geboren, gelang mit "ALLES über Lulu" ein Riesenerfolg. Kritiker verglichen ihn mit Salinger, Charles Dickens und John Irving. Für das Buch erhielt er den Washington State Book Award.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jonathan Evison
- 2008, 344 Seiten, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Soft Skull Press
- ISBN-10: 1593761961
- ISBN-13: 9781593761967
Sprache:
Englisch
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