A Heart for the Gods of Mexico (ePub)
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
An unrequited love, a passionless marriage, and an exotic adventure all play a role in this "engrossing" novel by a National Book Award-winning author (The New York Times Book Review).
Blomberg has loved Noni for what seems like his whole life. He loves...
Blomberg has loved Noni for what seems like his whole life. He loves...
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An unrequited love, a passionless marriage, and an exotic adventure all play a role in this "engrossing" novel by a National Book Award-winning author (The New York Times Book Review).
Blomberg has loved Noni for what seems like his whole life. He loves her like he loves the sunset, like he loves the air he breathes. But beautiful, strange, impulsive Noni-who has spent years in a passionless marriage to one of Boston's most notorious swindlers-has only a few months to live; her heart is about to give out.
Before she dies, Noni begs Blom to finance a trip to Mexico, where she can obtain a quick divorce and marry the man she loves. That man is not Blom, however, but Gil-an upstanding young gentleman who is to know nothing of Noni's condition. With his own heart aching, Blom arranges the money, and the trio heads south on a journey that will bring them face to face with the mysteries of life and death.
Featuring a character based on the author's friend and protégé Malcolm Lowry, this is a deeply personal and psychologically astute novel by a versatile writer who was the recipient of the Pulitzer and Bollingen Prizes for his poetry, among other literary honors.
Blomberg has loved Noni for what seems like his whole life. He loves her like he loves the sunset, like he loves the air he breathes. But beautiful, strange, impulsive Noni-who has spent years in a passionless marriage to one of Boston's most notorious swindlers-has only a few months to live; her heart is about to give out.
Before she dies, Noni begs Blom to finance a trip to Mexico, where she can obtain a quick divorce and marry the man she loves. That man is not Blom, however, but Gil-an upstanding young gentleman who is to know nothing of Noni's condition. With his own heart aching, Blom arranges the money, and the trio heads south on a journey that will bring them face to face with the mysteries of life and death.
Featuring a character based on the author's friend and protégé Malcolm Lowry, this is a deeply personal and psychologically astute novel by a versatile writer who was the recipient of the Pulitzer and Bollingen Prizes for his poetry, among other literary honors.
Autoren-Porträt von Conrad Aiken
Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) was an American poet, novelist, and short story author, and one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. His numerous honors include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award for Poetry, the Bollingen Prize, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal. Born in Savannah, Georgia, Aiken was orphaned at a young age and was raised by his great-great-aunt in Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University with T. S. Eliot and was a contributing editor to the influential literary journal the Dial, where he befriended Ezra Pound.Aiken published more than fifty works of poetry, fiction, and criticism, including the novels Blue Voyage, Great Circle, King Coffin, A Heart for the Gods of Mexico, and Conversation, and the widely anthologized short stories "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" and "Mr. Arcularis." He played a key role in establishing Emily Dickinson's status as a major American poet, mentored a young Malcolm Lowry, and served as the US poet laureate from 1950 to 1952. Aiken returned to Savannah eleven years before his death; the epitaph on his tombstone in Bonaventure Cemetery reads: Cosmos Mariner, Destination Unknown.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Conrad Aiken
- 2015, 57 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- ISBN-10: 1504011422
- ISBN-13: 9781504011426
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.06.2015
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Pressezitat
“Aiken is at once an intellectual and a poet, for he has the mind to see and the heart to feel.” —The New York Times“[Conrad Aiken is] perhaps the most exciting, the most finally satisfying of living novelists.” —Graham Greene
“An intensely individual novelist . . . The reader will find himself drawn into a fictional world that is complex and engrossing as well as absolutely personal.” —The New York Times Book Review
“One of the five living greatest writers.” —Malcolm Lowry
“With his magnificent technical equipments, his mastery of the word, his active imagination . . . [Conrad Aiken was] a towering figure.” —Malcolm Cowley
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