Pete Dexter ist einer der größten zeitgenössischen Schriftsteller der USA und Träger des National Book Awards. Sein neuer Roman ist eine aufrührerische und umwerfend komische Geschichte über Liebe und Beharrlichkeit. Von seiner schwierigen Geburt an ist Warren Spooners Leben von Tragik und Rückschlägen gezeichnet. Früh verliert er seinen Vater, sein vielversprechendes Baseballtalent wird vereitelt doch Warren bleibt hartnäckig. Dabei steht ihm stets sein Stiefvater Calmer Ottoson zur Seite, in der Absicht den trudelnden Jungen zu retten. Doch dies scheint nicht in dessen Händen zu liegen.
Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant young naval officer, Calmer Ottosson, recently court-martialed out of service. This is the story of the lifelong tie between the two men, poles apart, of Spooner's troubled childhood, troubled adolescence, violent and troubled adulthood and Calmer Ottosson's inexhaustible patience, undertaking a life-long struggle to salvage his step-son, a man he will never understand.
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Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant young naval officer, Calmer Ottosson, recently court-martialed out of service. This is the story of the lifelong tie between the two men, poles apart, of Spooner's troubled childhood, troubled adolescence, violent and troubled adulthood and Calmer Ottosson's inexhaustible patience, undertaking a life-long struggle to salvage his step-son, a man he will never understand.
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