Julian Gallo

The Penguin and The Bird (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

New York City, 1979. Nadja - a new immigrant from Poland, thirty years old, recently divorced, and down to her last dollar - wonders how she's going to make ends meet and care for her children. He is a thirteen year old boy, sitting alone in his bedroom listening to The Kinks, trying to draw comic books, write short stories, and noodles on his guitar as he broods over an unrequited love. Ten years later their paths cross and an unlikely relationship begins to flourish. Sixteen years her junior, the narrator tries to make sense of the situation he now finds himself in, falling in love with a much older woman. Meanwhile Nadja is coping with the difficulties in her life - her divorce, her growing children, her abject poverty, her failed relationships, her memories of communist Poland - and now she has another issue to deal with: a man sixteen years her junior who is seemingly falling in love with her. Her conflicted feelings over him only complicates matters even more. Sometimes the heart wants what it wants. This odd love story, based on an obscure folk tale, mirrors the situation they now both find themselves, with no clear answers, no clear meaning to any of it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Horizons Editions
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781386122333
• Artikelnr.: 52217283

Autorenporträt

Julian Gallo lives and works in New York City. His poetry has appeared in over 40 journals throughout the Unites States, Canada and Europe. He is the author of 9 poetry books, "Standing on Lorimer Street Awaiting Crucifixion" (Alpha Beat Press 1996), "The Terror of Your Cunt is the Beauty of Your Face" (Black Spring Press 1999), "Street Gospel Mystical Intellectual Survival Codes" (Budget Press 2000), "Scrape That Violin More Darkly Then Hover Like Smoke in the Air" (Black Spring Press 2001), "Existential Labyrinths" (Black Spring Press 2003), "My Arrival is Marked by Illuminating Stains" (Beat Corrida, 2007), "Window Shopping For a New Crown of Thorns" (Beat Corrida, 2007), "A Symphony of Olives" (Propaganda Press 2009) and "Divertimiento" (Propaganda Press 2009). He is also the author of 6 novels, "November Rust (Beat Corrida, 2007), "Naderia" (Beat Corrida, 2011), "Be Still and Know That I Am" (Beat Corrida, 2011), "Mediterraneo" (Beat Corrida, 2012), "Europa" (Beat Corrida, 2013), the short story collection "Rapid Eye Movements" (Beat Corrida 2014) and "Rhombus Denied" (Beat Corrida, 2015)