Eric Kraft

Broschiertes Buch

Little Follies (trade paperback)

Beschreibung

"Clever, anecdotal, suspenseful, and funny." Anna Shapiro, The New Yorker To read a sample, click "Preview" below the cover image. Peter Leroy explores one of his earliest memories (his mother's tumble from her lawn chair); probes the root causes of his childhood pelecypodophobia (fear of bivalve mollusks, particularly clams); navigates the upper reaches of the Bolotomy River; builds a radio receiver and explores the farthest reaches of the galaxy; ponders the differences between dour foxes and happy clams; falls in love with the girl with the white fur muff; learns the pleasures of skating on ice and taking the long way home; becomes a fan of the Larry Peters Adventure series; and rises to the rank of Aluminum Commodore in the Young Tars. "It generates its own reality, and it's profoundly funny." David Chute, The Los Angeles Times "Tiny and enormous, full of mystery and wonder." Robert Plunket, The New York Times Book Review "Strikingly new." Walter Kendrick, The Village Voice

Autor

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Eric Kraft grew up in Babylon, New York, on the South Shore of Long Island, where he was for a time co-owner and co-captain of a clam boat, which sank. He met or invented the character Peter Leroy while dozing over a German lesson during his first year at Harvard.¿ The following year, he married his muse, Madeline Canning; they have two sons.¿ After earning a Master's Degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Kraft taught school in the Boston area for a while, moonlighting as a rock music critic for the Boston Phoenix.¿ Since then, he has spent a part of every day writing the voluminous work of fiction that he calls The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy.¿ It has received widespread critical acclaim in the United States and internationally. Three of the volumes were named New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Kraft has been the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts; was, briefly, chairman of PEN New England; and has been awarded the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu.com
• Seitenzahl: 510
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 820g
• ISBN-13: 9781105651540
• ISBN-10: 1105651541
• Artikelnr.: 40306576