Lost Memory of Skin
(Sprache: Englisch)
Trade paperback. A new contemporary novel from the author of "Cloudsplitter" and "The Darling". Follows the fortunes of a convicted sex offender who's forced to live under a bridge in a shanty town. 'The uncompromising moral voice of our time' Michael Ondaatje
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Trade paperback. A new contemporary novel from the author of "Cloudsplitter" and "The Darling". Follows the fortunes of a convicted sex offender who's forced to live under a bridge in a shanty town. 'The uncompromising moral voice of our time' Michael Ondaatje
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A mature and masterful work of contemporary fiction from a great American writer. Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders. Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid is in many ways an innocent, trapped by impulses and foolish choices. Enter the Professor, a man who has built his own life on secrets and lies. A university sociologist of enormous size and intellect, he finds in the Kid the perfect subject for his research on homelessness and reoffending sex offenders. The two men forge a tentative partnership. But when the Professor's past resurfaces and threatens to destroy his carefully constructed world, the balance in the two men's relationship shifts. Suddenly, the Kid must reconsider everything he has come to believe, and choose what course of action to take when faced with a new kind of moral decision.
Autoren-Porträt von Russell Banks
Russell Banks, geb. 1940 in New Hampshire, arbeitete als Schuhverkäufer und Klempner, fing an zu malen, studierte und lebt heute als freier Schriftsteller und Dozent in Princeton, New Jersey. Für sein umfangreiches Werk hat er zahlreiche Preise und Stipendien erhalten, u.a. den John-Don-Passos-Preis. John Brown, mein Vater wurde für den PEN/Faulkner Award sowie für den Pulitzerpreis nominiert.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Russell Banks
- 2012, 352 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 3,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Profile Books
- ISBN-10: 1846685761
- ISBN-13: 9781846685767
Sprache:
Englisch
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"'The uncompromising moral voice of our time' (Michael Ondaatje) 'If you've never read Russell Banks it's time you acquired the habit' (Elmore Leonard) 'Banks is one of those precious writers like Twain or Salinger who creates a voice so wonderfully real that the experience of reading them is like a conversation with an old friend' (Sunday Times) 'Of the many writers working in the great tradition today, one of the best is Russell Banks' (New York Times)"
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