Charles Portis

The Masters of Atlantis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Back in print, Portis's brilliant "white comedy" is an unforgettable tale of secret societies, lost cities, and sacred texts--a cockeyed journey into an America of misfits and con men, oddballs and innocents.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Overlook Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 205mm x 139mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781585670215
• ISBN-10: 1585670219
• Artikelnr.: 21016719

Autorenporträt

Charles Portis (1933–2020) lived most of his life in Arkansas, where he was born and raised. He was a graduate of the University of Arkansas, which in 2018 awarded him an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War, was the London bureau chief of the New York Herald-Tribune, and was a writer for The New Yorker. He is the author of four other novels, also available from the Overlook Press: Norwood, The Dog of the South, Masters of Atlantis, and Gringos. A selection of his writing has been collected in Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany.