It is 2027. August Helm is thirty years old. A biochemist working in a lab at the University of Chicago, he is swept off his feet by the beautiful and entirely self-assured Amanda Clark. Animated by August's consuming desire, their relationship quickly becomes intimate. But when he stumbles across a liaison between the director of his lab and a much younger student, his position is eliminated and his world upended. August sets out to visit his parents in Words, an unincorporated village in the heart of Wisconsin's Driftless area. Here, he reconnects with several characters from his past: Ivan…mehr
It is 2027. August Helm is thirty years old. A biochemist working in a lab at the University of Chicago, he is swept off his feet by the beautiful and entirely self-assured Amanda Clark. Animated by August's consuming desire, their relationship quickly becomes intimate. But when he stumbles across a liaison between the director of his lab and a much younger student, his position is eliminated and his world upended. August sets out to visit his parents in Words, an unincorporated village in the heart of Wisconsin's Driftless area. Here, he reconnects with several characters from his past: Ivan Bookchester, who now advocates for "new ways of living" in an age of decline; Hanh, formerly known as Jewelweed, who tends her orchard and wild ginseng, keenly attuned to new patterns of migration resulting from climate change and habitat destruction; and Lester Mortal, the aging veteran and fierce pacifist who long ago rescued her from Vietnam. Together, the old friends fall back into a familiar closeness. But much as things initially seem unchanged in the Driftless, when August is hired to look after Tom and April Lux's home in Forest Gate, he finds himself amidst an entirely different social set, comprised of wealthy homeowners who are resented by poorer surrounding communities, and distanced, in turn, by their fear of the locals. August soon falls head over heels for April, and different versions of his self collide: one in which the past is still present in tensions and dreams, another in which he understands his desire as genetically determined and chemically induced, and then a vaguely hoped-for future with April. When Lester is diagnosed with liver cirrhosis, Ivan comes clean on a ghastly past episode, and April makes a shocking revelation, a series of events ensues that will change all involved forever. As approachable as it is profound in exploring the human condition and our shared need for community, this is a story for our times.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
David Rhodes was the author of Painting the Walls. As a young man, he worked in fields, hospitals, and factories across Iowa. After receiving an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop in 1971, he published three novels in rapid succession: The Last Fair Deal Going Down (Atlantic/Little, Brown, 1972), The Easter House (Harper & Row, 1974), and Rock Island Line (Harper & Row, 1975). In 1976, a motorcycle accident left him paraplegic. He continued writing, but did not publish again until 2008, with his celebrated novel, Driftless. Several years later, a sequel, Jewelweed, was published to wide acclaim. After another decade, he returned to American letters with this extraordinary novel, his first to be set in the future.
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A Miniature Cage xxx Pale, Polished Wood xxx A Grief Unlike Any Other xxx Red Rooster Cafe xxx Determined Fidelities xxx Jet Lag xxx Saws xxx Working Wood xxx The Glass Eye xxx The Home Place xxx The Fish Room xxx Eating Snakes xxx The Flat Worm xxx Dogs Play xxx Shampoo xxx Insects xxx Whittling xxx [EA1] xxx Player Piano xxx Divine Madness xxx Visitors xxx Violated xxx Hot Biscuits xxx Femicide xxx Snow xxx Links and Linkage xxx Living’s Bookends xxx The Service xxx Gene Circling xxx We Grew Up Together xxx Climax xxx Epilogue xxx Acknowledgments xxx [EA1]see note at chapter heading p266
A Miniature Cage xxx Pale, Polished Wood xxx A Grief Unlike Any Other xxx Red Rooster Cafe xxx Determined Fidelities xxx Jet Lag xxx Saws xxx Working Wood xxx The Glass Eye xxx The Home Place xxx The Fish Room xxx Eating Snakes xxx The Flat Worm xxx Dogs Play xxx Shampoo xxx Insects xxx Whittling xxx [EA1] xxx Player Piano xxx Divine Madness xxx Visitors xxx Violated xxx Hot Biscuits xxx Femicide xxx Snow xxx Links and Linkage xxx Living’s Bookends xxx The Service xxx Gene Circling xxx We Grew Up Together xxx Climax xxx Epilogue xxx Acknowledgments xxx [EA1]see note at chapter heading p266
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