Ken Everett

Smith (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

John Smith was born into a poor farming family in Missouri. Sent to a university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces the life of a scholar. Over the years, Smith experiences a series of disappointments: marrying a "real" family alienates him from his parents; his career is hampered; his wife and daughter coldly turn their backs on him; A transformative new love experience ends under threat of scandal. Driven deeper and deeper, Smith rediscovers the stoic stillness of his ancestors and confronts an underlying loneliness. John Smith emerges not only as an archetypal American, but also as an unlikely existential hero,

The central theme of the story is surely that of love, of love's many forms and of all the forces that oppose it. "It [love] was neither a passion of the mind nor of the heart, it was a force that encompassed them both as if they were just the matter of love, its specific substance."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ken Everett
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005180461
• Artikelnr.: 63961123

Autorenporträt

I'm a 61 year old widower of 6 years who is retired and lives in Des Plaines IL. I'm pretty much a stay at home person (especially during these Covid times). I live with my 2 loyal companions, my 12 year old silky terrier Scottie and my 11 year old American longhair black cat Edy. My passions are reading and cooking. I love writing and this is my second book with a third in the works. My first published book is called The Fermi Paradox which I wrote 15 years ago. I have a website (https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/) that deals primarily in literature, as well as news and info. I also buy and sell textbooks which I like to call textbook arbitrage.

I love books because they provide an escape. They allow me to go somewhere I would never be able to get without them. I read to know that I am not alone. Books provide me with a place to go when I have nowhere else to go.
When you read and see the world through another person's eyes, it is quite breathtaking and overwhelming. Everyone envisages things and perceives things differently and to glimpse another person's perspective, is fascinating (especially if it is a biography or a real true-life story)