Postcards from Pinsk (ePub)
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
Postcards from Pinsk is the story of a middle-aged Beacon Hill shrink coming to grips with himself. The "postcard" is the catalyst for crisis-his wife of long standing is divorcing him. It appears she has good reason, yet as Orrin Summers wrestles with...
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Postcards from Pinsk is the story of a middle-aged Beacon Hill shrink coming to grips with himself. The "postcard" is the catalyst for crisis-his wife of long standing is divorcing him. It appears she has good reason, yet as Orrin Summers wrestles with solitude, self-deception, and a general inability to behave himself, the reader becomes increasingly comfortable inside Orrin's witty, quirky persona and increasingly won over by the slightly goofy heroism of this distinctly antiheroic figure.
Long insulated from the real hurly burly of life, Orrin must take the late 1980s as he finds them making small talk with his ex-wife's answering machine, coping with his daughter's lovers, Hickey and Genghis Ferguson, fending off the private eye, Bemis, and finding surprising images of himself in The Man Crushed by Quarters, in The Boston Red Socks (and his own shoes), and in Pigford, a man of the streets with whom Orrin is forced to acknowledge "an irrefutable brotherhood of issues."
Orrin's roommate, Eli Paperman, a hyperactive lawyer, and Eli's beautiful girlfriend, Marcy Green, are drawn with the humor and accuracy we have come to expect from Larry Duberstein. The author manages to be at once inside and outside their skins, with his skillful mix of detached irony and unfailing sympathy.
Postcards from Pinsk quietly and expertly observes a complex psychological event and in doing so avoids sentimentality, while affirming the value of one man's small struggle for dignity. As always with Duberstein, the writing sparkles. A great deal of the pleasure of the novel is in its language, and in the little peregrinations through the streets and seasons of Boston, and through the daily rounds and revelations of its characters.
Long insulated from the real hurly burly of life, Orrin must take the late 1980s as he finds them making small talk with his ex-wife's answering machine, coping with his daughter's lovers, Hickey and Genghis Ferguson, fending off the private eye, Bemis, and finding surprising images of himself in The Man Crushed by Quarters, in The Boston Red Socks (and his own shoes), and in Pigford, a man of the streets with whom Orrin is forced to acknowledge "an irrefutable brotherhood of issues."
Orrin's roommate, Eli Paperman, a hyperactive lawyer, and Eli's beautiful girlfriend, Marcy Green, are drawn with the humor and accuracy we have come to expect from Larry Duberstein. The author manages to be at once inside and outside their skins, with his skillful mix of detached irony and unfailing sympathy.
Postcards from Pinsk quietly and expertly observes a complex psychological event and in doing so avoids sentimentality, while affirming the value of one man's small struggle for dignity. As always with Duberstein, the writing sparkles. A great deal of the pleasure of the novel is in its language, and in the little peregrinations through the streets and seasons of Boston, and through the daily rounds and revelations of its characters.
Autoren-Porträt von Larry Duberstein
There will be more soon on Larry Duberstein's extraordinary new novel Five Bullets, forthcoming in November. Mr. Duberstein is the author of 9 previous volumes of fiction, including The Marriage Hearse (New York Times New & Noteworthy), Carnovsky's Retreat (New American Writing Award), The Alibi Breakfast (Publishers Weekly starred notice), The Handsome Sailor (New York Times Notable Book) and The Day The Bozarts Died (BookSense Notable Book).In his other incarnation as a human being, Larry is the father of three beautiful daughters, an accomplished woodworker and builder, an avid tennis and basketball player, and the person who walks Alice Brownstein, the wonder dog.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Larry Duberstein
- 2015, 244 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: The Permanent Press
- ISBN-10: 1453294007
- ISBN-13: 9781453294000
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.04.2015
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“Orrin Summers is a man of parts, intellectual and funny, and on his painful voyage of self-discovery he caroms off a wonderful cast of characters . . . Mr. Duberstein has an eye and an ear for the truly comic, and he packs a lot of bittersweet humor and unfailing insight into mere 244 pages.” —The New York Times Book Review“This is a funny, charming book. It is an old-fashioned literary entertainment [in which] Duberstein tries to strike a balance between his own considerable comic gifts and his novel’s hard edges.” —American Book Review
“An exuberant account of a man who discovers that a late midlife crisis is better than none at all. Sweet-natured with a quaint hero whom Duberstein handles with an appropriate wry tone. In all, an affectionate portrait of a lost soul who doesn’t know it until he finds out for himself.” —Kirkus Reviews
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