Ladies & Gentlemen, English edition
Stories
(Sprache: Englisch)
Ross effortlessly weaves his narrative through seven short stories as diverse as they are compelling. A brilliant lawyer, burdened by years of bitterness and guilt, resolves to rescue his irresponsible younger brother, only to realize they've both been...
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Ross effortlessly weaves his narrative through seven short stories as diverse as they are compelling. A brilliant lawyer, burdened by years of bitterness and guilt, resolves to rescue his irresponsible younger brother, only to realize they've both been duped. The office handyman-come-savant regales a shy professor with stories outrageous and entertaining, and somehow the intellectual winds up complicit in a crime. A thirteen-year-old struggles with the tortures of love and lust for his friend's sister who is seemingly way out of his league. A man who can't seem to get anything right applies for a respectable-looking much-needed job; just when he thought things couldn't get any worse, they do. Two college kids egg each other on in a series of escalating dares; it's double or quits and the result looms, as tragic as it is ambiguous.
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After his widely celebrated debut, Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross now presents a darkly compelling collection of stories about brothers, loners, lovers, and lives full of good intentions, misunderstandings, and obscured motives.A hotshot lawyer, burdened by years of guilt and resentment, comes to the rescue of his irresponsible, irresistible younger brother. An unsettling story resonates between the dysfunctional couple telling it and their listening friends as well. A lonely professor, frequently regaled with unbelievably entertaining tales by the office handyman, suddenly fears he's being asked to abet a murderous fugitive. An awkward but nervy adolescent uses his brief career as a child actor to further his designs on a WASPy friend's seemingly untouchable sister. A man down on his luck closes in on a mysterious, much-needed job offer while doing a good turn for his fragile neighbor, with results at once surreal and hilarious. And when two college kids goad each other on in an escalating series of breathtaking dares, the outcome is as tragic as it is ambiguous.
Laced with glimmers of redemption, youthful energy, and hard-won wisdom, these noirish stories unspool purposefully and fluidly; together they confirm the arrival of-as Michiko Kakutani put it in The New York Times-"an enormously talented writer."
Autoren-Porträt von Adam Ross
Adam Ross, geboren in New York, lebt in Nashville, Tennessee. Nach zahlreichen Erzählungen in literarischen Zeitschriften legte er mit "Mister Peanut" seinen ersten Roman vor.Adam Ross ist verheiratet und hat zwei Töchter.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Adam Ross
- 2012, 256 Seiten, Maße: 13,2 x 20,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- ISBN-10: 0307454916
- ISBN-13: 9780307454911
Sprache:
Englisch
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