Hostages to Fortune (ePub)
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
A father bravely confronts an unthinkable tragedyin William Humphrey's most heart-wrenching novel.
In the aftermath of his son's suicide, Ben Curtis returns to the upstate New York fishing lodge that holds some of his happiest memories. It has been two...
In the aftermath of his son's suicide, Ben Curtis returns to the upstate New York fishing lodge that holds some of his happiest memories. It has been two...
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A father bravely confronts an unthinkable tragedyin William Humphrey's most heart-wrenching novel.
In the aftermath of his son's suicide, Ben Curtis returns to the upstate New York fishing lodge that holds some of his happiest memories. It has been two years since his last visit, and Ben-thirty pounds lighter, his dark hair turned white-is barely recognizable to people who have fished alongside him for twenty summers. For the first time in all those years, he has made the trip alone.
Over the course of the weekend, as Ben tramps through the forest and relearns the secrets of catching trout, he recalls the joys of the past and reckons with the grim reality of the present. Anthony, a Princeton freshman who inherited his father's love of the outdoors, is gone. So too is the man he was named after: Tony Thayer, Ben's best friend and former fishing companion. And Ben has no idea where his wife, Cathy, might be. In the wake of Anthony's death, their already-strained marriage fell apart.
Where does a man turn when everything he put his faith in-friends, family, love-is destroyed? In the exhilaration of fly casting into an icy mountain stream, Ben hopes to find the answer. Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as "a desperate, impressive, astonishing book," Hostages to Fortune is a profound and deeply moving meditation on the art of survival.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Humphrey including rare photos form the author's estate.
In the aftermath of his son's suicide, Ben Curtis returns to the upstate New York fishing lodge that holds some of his happiest memories. It has been two years since his last visit, and Ben-thirty pounds lighter, his dark hair turned white-is barely recognizable to people who have fished alongside him for twenty summers. For the first time in all those years, he has made the trip alone.
Over the course of the weekend, as Ben tramps through the forest and relearns the secrets of catching trout, he recalls the joys of the past and reckons with the grim reality of the present. Anthony, a Princeton freshman who inherited his father's love of the outdoors, is gone. So too is the man he was named after: Tony Thayer, Ben's best friend and former fishing companion. And Ben has no idea where his wife, Cathy, might be. In the wake of Anthony's death, their already-strained marriage fell apart.
Where does a man turn when everything he put his faith in-friends, family, love-is destroyed? In the exhilaration of fly casting into an icy mountain stream, Ben hopes to find the answer. Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as "a desperate, impressive, astonishing book," Hostages to Fortune is a profound and deeply moving meditation on the art of survival.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Humphrey including rare photos form the author's estate.
Autoren-Porträt von William Humphrey
William Humphrey (1924-1997) was born in Clarksville, Texas. Neither of his parents went to school beyond the fifth grade, and during the height of the Great Depression his father hunted in the snake-infested swamplands of the Sulphur River to help feed the family. Humphrey left Clarksville at age thirteen and did not return for thirty-two years. By then he was the internationally acclaimed author of two extraordinary novels set in his hometown: Home from the Hill, a National Book Award finalist that became an MGM film starring Robert Mitchum, and its follow-up, The Ordways, which the New York Times called "exhilaratingly successful." Eleven highly praised works of fiction and nonfiction followed, including Farther Off from Heaven, a memoir about Humphrey's East Texas boyhood and his father's tragic death in an automobile accident; The Spawning Run and My Moby Dick, two delightful accounts of the joys and travails of fly fishing; and No Resting Place, a novel about the forced removal of the Cherokee nation along the Trail of Tears.A longtime professor of English and writing at Bard College and other schools, Humphrey was the recipient of awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: William Humphrey
- 2015, 228 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- ISBN-10: 1504006305
- ISBN-13: 9781504006309
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.02.2015
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Pressezitat
“Not since Faulkner have we had a writer who evokes so much force and skill.” —The Washington Post“No one who reads Hostages to Fortune can help being profoundly affected by it and made more appreciative of Mr. Humphrey’s abilities.” —The Kansas City Star
“Fierce reality . . . [Humphrey] remains true to his early Faulknerian theme of dark, bounding destinies.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Searing . . . unsparingly honest . . . Humphrey is a brilliant portrayer of the moods of nature and people.” —The Plain Dealer
“Extraordinary.” —Newsday
“Sensitive, honest, and wise.” —The Washington Post Book World
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