Europe (ePub)
Or, Up and Down with Schreiber and Baggish
(Sprache: Englisch)
Cultures and egos clash in this hilarious tale of two American men trying to start over again in Europe
For Max Schreiber, World War II was an idyll. It is the return home to Connecticut that feels like entering a combat zone. Ridiculed by his wife and...
For Max Schreiber, World War II was an idyll. It is the return home to Connecticut that feels like entering a combat zone. Ridiculed by his wife and...
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Cultures and egos clash in this hilarious tale of two American men trying to start over again in Europe
For Max Schreiber, World War II was an idyll. It is the return home to Connecticut that feels like entering a combat zone. Ridiculed by his wife and daughter, bored by his legal practice, Schreiber spends his evenings drinking and eating alone, hoping that when he goes to sleep he will dream of France and Micheline, the beautiful young woman who may have broken his heart but at least made him feel alive. When at last he works up the courage to end his stultifying marriage and set out on his own, Schreiber knows exactly where he wants to go: across the Atlantic.
Theodore Baggish has spent years planning and saving for his escape from New England. When the time is finally right, he gleefully gets himself fired from his job as a dry goods clerk and sets sail for postwar Europe, the land of opportunity. Nothing will stand in the way of his success, and he will use anyone who can help him achieve his goals, whether they like it or not. Naive, amoral, and unrelentingly eager, Baggish may have been too young to storm the beaches of Normandy, but he is bound and determined to conquer the Continent all by himself.
When Schreiber and Baggish meet at an awkward dinner party in the university town of Heidelberg, one them is on the way up, the other on the way down. Are their futures set in stone, or is there still time to change course? Stylish, witty, and profound, Europe is an insightful examination of the intersection of character and circumstance and a laugh-out-loud portrayal of the conflict between the Old World and the New.
For Max Schreiber, World War II was an idyll. It is the return home to Connecticut that feels like entering a combat zone. Ridiculed by his wife and daughter, bored by his legal practice, Schreiber spends his evenings drinking and eating alone, hoping that when he goes to sleep he will dream of France and Micheline, the beautiful young woman who may have broken his heart but at least made him feel alive. When at last he works up the courage to end his stultifying marriage and set out on his own, Schreiber knows exactly where he wants to go: across the Atlantic.
Theodore Baggish has spent years planning and saving for his escape from New England. When the time is finally right, he gleefully gets himself fired from his job as a dry goods clerk and sets sail for postwar Europe, the land of opportunity. Nothing will stand in the way of his success, and he will use anyone who can help him achieve his goals, whether they like it or not. Naive, amoral, and unrelentingly eager, Baggish may have been too young to storm the beaches of Normandy, but he is bound and determined to conquer the Continent all by himself.
When Schreiber and Baggish meet at an awkward dinner party in the university town of Heidelberg, one them is on the way up, the other on the way down. Are their futures set in stone, or is there still time to change course? Stylish, witty, and profound, Europe is an insightful examination of the intersection of character and circumstance and a laugh-out-loud portrayal of the conflict between the Old World and the New.
Autoren-Porträt von Richard Stern
Richard Stern (1928-2013) was the acclaimed author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels Other Men's Daughters, Golk, Stitch, and Natural Shocks. Born in New York City, he attended the University of North Carolina and received his master's degree from Harvard University and his PhD from the University of Iowa. The recipient of many honors, including the Award of Merit for the Novel, given once every six years by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Stern was a longtime professor of English at the University of Chicago, where he taught alongside Saul Bellow. He counted Flannery O'Connor, Norman Mailer, Anthony Burgess, Lillian Hellman, John Cheever, John Berryman, and Philip Roth among his many other literary admirers.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Richard Stern
- 2014, 215 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- ISBN-10: 149768529X
- ISBN-13: 9781497685291
- Erscheinungsdatum: 16.12.2014
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Pressezitat
“Mr. Stern’s comic vision lights up a venal world that his readers will be able to recognize even if they have never gotten past the Statue of Liberty.” —The New York Times“Sharp, bittersweetly funny, technically adroit, essentially fantastic.” —Chicago Sun-Times
“Made out of the joy of language, witty and always entertaining, [Europe] is a beautifully contrived artifact.” —Anthony Burgess
“I like Europe even better than Golk. Baggish is a worthy descendant of Chichikov, and I hope will be around as long.” —Flannery O’Connor
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