Waylon McPhee, middle-aged and divorced, moves back in with his widowed father in hopes of coasting through another year. But his father is dating again, and his sisters are trying to manipulate Waylon into asking their father for their inheritance before he gives it to a second wife. The sarcastic Waylon, juggling his relationships and responsibilities caustically but light-heartedly, hangs on hoping to recover something he lost in his youth: e ...
Joseph Levy leads a quiet life in rural Wheaton, Arizona. Retired from a long career in psychiatric research and practice, he reads, writes, and walks in the mountains and hills near the Native reservation. His quiet life ends, however, when a dental crown replacement causes trouble just before meeting an internet date in California. Thus begins a year of back-to-back nightmare infections, a drug overdose, and two failed relationships. At every ...
And above all, Pete Najarian, of whose “Wash Me On Home, Mama” one wants to cry, Perfect! One puts down the book with rinsed eyes and clear heart. How does it happen? Formally the novel is simple: a few pages at a time devoted to the inner moments of a handful of characters living loosely together in a sort of commune, a line to indicate forward movement drawn lightly by an italicized paragraph between each section. The sensation is strangely an ...
None of the neighbors considered it trespassing. The run-down shack on five overgrown acres in the Sierra Nevada foothills had been abandoned for years. But their exploits on the land are suddenly threatened when a woman appears out of nowhere, claiming to have just inherited the place. As she starts digging around, she does far more than uncover weeds and rocks: she uproots the very landscape of each of their lives. “Gently and poetical ...
This book is a heady journey through the counterculture of the 60s and beyond. The narrator is the fortunate product of its particular manifestation in California, experiencing this unique spread of years in all its intensity at just the right age. He enjoys a childhood in Brentwood, near the beaches of Los Angeles where he went to school with the children of Hollywood celebrities, and moves, when older, to Venice Beach and Topanga Canyon. He th ...
A great American city is destroyed under mysterious circumstances,wasted by explosions and fire. A lone survivor wanders, lost, among its ruins. Out of a whirlwind of language appear the images of a boy, a youth, a middle-aged man exploring lives he might have led had he made different choices in early manhood, of an old man in a hospital, paralyzed and dying – and of a young girl, a young woman, an old woman, alone, abandoned, longing, in an ev ...
Was machen drei junge, hypochondrische Freunde samt einem neurotischen Foxterrier, wenn sie dem Wetter entfliehen wollen und wilde Abenteuer suchen? Sie packen Blazer, Hut und Schlips ein und fahren in einem Ruderboot auf der Themse in die Wildnis hinauf. Doch sie haben den Buchsenoffner vergessen, die Zahnburste ist unauffindbar, und wenn sie einem Schild begegnen, auf dem steht «Achtung! Gefahr! Nicht hier entlang!», dann steuern sie schnurs ...
Eva, das Lowenmadchen, kommt 1912 vollig behaart zur Welt. Ihr Mutter stirbt bei der Geburt. Im Laufe ihres Heranwachsens mu? die Halbwaise nicht nur lernen, mit der durch einen seltenen Gendefekt ausgelosten Anomalie zu leben, sondern auch standig vorgefuhrt und gedemutigt zu werden. Auf eine wundervoll unsentimentale und doch einfuhlsame Art erzahlt Erik Fosnes Hansen von einer au?ergewohnlichen Selbstfindung. ...
Schlie?t die Augen und zerbrecht das Glas Es ist Nacht, ein junger Mann sitzt am Tisch und schreibt. Er hat Angst. Davor, sich entscheiden zu mussen. Fur eine Frau, einen Freundeskreis, einen Urlaubsort im Jahr. Er hat Angst, dass ihm das Gefuhl abhandenkommt. Dass er erwachsen wird. Doch ein Bekannter hat ihm ein Angebot gemacht: Sieben Mal um sieben Uhr soll er einer der sieben Todsunden begegnen. Er muss gierig, hochmutig und wollustig sein, ...
