Heavenly Days (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
Over the course of twenty years and seven novels James Wilcox has established himself as one of the most distinctive and beloved voices of the South, a comic master whose work has been praised by writers as diverse as Robert Penn Warren and Anne Tyler. From...
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Over the course of twenty years and seven novels James Wilcox has established himself as one of the most distinctive and beloved voices of the South, a comic master whose work has been praised by writers as diverse as Robert Penn Warren and Anne Tyler. From Modern Baptists-which was both included in Harold Bloom's Western Canon and featured in GQ's list of the forty-five best books published in the last forty-five years-to Plain and Normal, he has charted the collision of the stubbornly genteel Old South with a world of franchise food and a brimming melting pot, as the manners and mores that have always been its cherished hallmark threaten to vanish completely.
In Heavenly Days, his first novel in five years, Wilcox returns to the familiar landscape of Tula Springs, Louisiana, and introduces a sweetly hapless heroine trying to come to terms with a way of life for which she is utterly unequipped. Lou Jones-middle-aged, well educated, and faultlessly sensitive-has found herself unaccountably living in a $295,000 faux-Cajun cabin (her husband's dream house) and working as the receptionist in a fundamentalist health emporium housed in a defunct train station. Hardly the thing for a Ph.D. in music theory, yet Lou consoles herself with making valuable contributions to the American Bassoon Society's newsletter, and with drawing the town's spiritually needy citizens into her beneficent orbit. But her well-meaning interventions soon involve her in a series of increasingly complicated misunderstandings, as she becomes embroiled in evading a gun-toting tax collector, trying to befriend her aloof housekeeper and her unnervingly elegant mother, waging an ongoing and fruitless battle over the ownership of her husband's childhood home, and wrestling with a hotly disputed loblolly dresser. These are all distractions, though, from Lou's true, if unacknowledged, aim: to find the grace of heaven in the days of her own life through the bonds of love.
Heavenly Days marks the welcome return of James Wilcox-a gift to his longtime readers and to an entire generation of new ones.
In Heavenly Days, his first novel in five years, Wilcox returns to the familiar landscape of Tula Springs, Louisiana, and introduces a sweetly hapless heroine trying to come to terms with a way of life for which she is utterly unequipped. Lou Jones-middle-aged, well educated, and faultlessly sensitive-has found herself unaccountably living in a $295,000 faux-Cajun cabin (her husband's dream house) and working as the receptionist in a fundamentalist health emporium housed in a defunct train station. Hardly the thing for a Ph.D. in music theory, yet Lou consoles herself with making valuable contributions to the American Bassoon Society's newsletter, and with drawing the town's spiritually needy citizens into her beneficent orbit. But her well-meaning interventions soon involve her in a series of increasingly complicated misunderstandings, as she becomes embroiled in evading a gun-toting tax collector, trying to befriend her aloof housekeeper and her unnervingly elegant mother, waging an ongoing and fruitless battle over the ownership of her husband's childhood home, and wrestling with a hotly disputed loblolly dresser. These are all distractions, though, from Lou's true, if unacknowledged, aim: to find the grace of heaven in the days of her own life through the bonds of love.
Heavenly Days marks the welcome return of James Wilcox-a gift to his longtime readers and to an entire generation of new ones.
Autoren-Porträt von James Wilcox
James Wilcox's stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Avenue and Louisiana Literature. A graduate of Yale University, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Currently he is on the faculty of creative writing at Louisiana State University
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- Autor: James Wilcox
- 2004, 208 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- ISBN-10: 1440650217
- ISBN-13: 9781440650215
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.11.2004
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