Greg Jackson

Prodigals

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Produktbeschreibung

During a violent storm, a filmmaker escapes New York, accompanied by a woman who may be his therapist. A lawyer in the throes of divorce seeks refuge at her seaside cottage only to find a vagrant girl living in it. A dilettantish banker sees his ambitions laid bare when he comes under the influence of two strange sisters. A group of friends gathers in the California desert for one last bacchanal, and a journalist finds his visit to the French country home of a former tennis star take a deeply unnerving turn. Strivers, misfits, and children of privilege, the restless, sympathetic characters in Jackson's stellar short story collection, Prodigals, hew to passion and perversity through life's tempests. Theirs is a quest for meaning and authenticity in lives spoiled by self-knowledge and haunted by spiritual longing. Lyrical and unflinching, cerebral and surreal, this collection maps the degradations of contemporary life with insight and grace.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Picador Paper
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 132mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 293g
• ISBN-13: 9781250118059
• ISBN-10: 1250118050
• Artikelnr.: 44790092

Autorenporträt

Greg Jackson

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Wagner in the Desert
Serve- and- Volley, Near Vichy
Epithalamium
Dynamics in the Storm
Amy's Conversions
Tanner's Sisters
Summer 1984
Metanarrative Breakdown
Acknowledgments