L. H. May

The Coca Bums (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Set in Peru in 1985, the novel is narrated from the viewpoint of Jim Hiram, an American businessman, asked by Helen Seymour, a wealthy Philadelphian, to find her wayward brother, Peter. He had fled to Peru to avoid lawsuits filed by his father to have him declared incompetent because of cocaine addiction and incursion of high debts. Her last word from Pete was a postcard from Tingo Maria, a center of the cocaine trade and Maoist Sendero Luminoso rebel activity. When she turns on the charm, Jim reluctantly agrees to the search. A sister trading intimacy for her brothers safety is a variation on that theme in Measure for Measure, though the treatment is not so dark since theyre mutually attracted and are modern in outlook, not Elizabethan. When her parents arrive with their own detective, and the father has a heart attack in the Andes, the plot complicates and their love is strongly tested before they come through it together.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504911825
• Artikelnr.: 52587794

Autorenporträt

L.H. May was born in Cincinnati, Ohio; was educated in public schools there; received his BA, cum laude, from Yale College, where he majored in English and minored in Philosophy; and was strongly influenced by the synthesis of those two disciplines suggested by the groundbreaking lecture of Jacques Derrida at Johns Hopkins in 1966, introducing deconstructionism to the United States and expanding the scope of literary criticism beyond its previously narrow scholastic bounds. After graduating from college, May worked as a newspaper reporter before attending law school, receiving his JD from Indiana University. He then lived and worked in Peru, Lima, Arequipa, and Ayacucho, learning Spanish and researching international law, before returning to the United States to practice law in the Midwest, while continuing to write fiction in his spare time.