E. M. Schorb

Broschiertes Buch

A PORTABLE CHAOS

Beschreibung

A Portable Chaos opens with a stream-of-consciousness flashback to a childhood incidents that resemble James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," which gains significance as the novel unfolds. The main character, Jimmy Whistler, is a decent guy overflowing with untapped potential, who walks away from opportunities and the wrong sort of success and follows his bliss as a poet. Whistler and his friend Marsayas, a Zoroastrian hippie, belong to the generation of men who were possible or actual cannon fodder during the U.S.A. war in Vietnam, the generation that witnessed the end of the dominant myth of American difference, or American innocence. After a pretty squalid time living "la vie Boheme" (vividly written, conjuring up the ghosts of 1960s' past), Whistler emerges from the slough and finds validation, the girl, fame, fortune, contentment, and reconciliation with all those childhood demons.

Autor

E.M. Schorb is a prize-winning poet and novelist. His poetry collection, Murderer's Day, was awarded the Verna Emery Poetry Prize and published by Purdue University Press; his collection, Time and Fevers, was the recipient of the Writer's Digest International Self-Published Award for Poetry and also an Eric Hoffer Award. Other works include 50 Poems, Hill House New York; Reflections in a Doubtful I, White Violet Press; The Journey and Related Poems, Aldrich Press; Words in Passing, The New Formalist Press; The Ideologues and Other Retrospective Poems, Aldrich Press, and The Poor Boy, Dragon's Teeth Press, Living Poets Series. The title poem, "The Poor Boy," was awarded the International Keats Poetry Prize by London Literary Editions, Ltd., judged by Howard Sergeant. Schorb's novel, Paradise Square, received the Grand Prize for Fiction from the International eBook Award Foundation at the Frankfurt Book Fair. A Portable Chaos was the First Prize Winner of the Eric Hoffer Award for Fiction. But Schorb maintains that he is first and foremost a poet, and his poetry has appeared in hundreds of publications, here and abroad.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hill House New York
• Seitenzahl: 476
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 766g
• ISBN-13: 9780578954981
• ISBN-10: 0578954982
• Artikelnr.: 62567950