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ROAD TO JEWEL BEACH
Langbeschreibung
Emotionally terse and sharply observed, this novel is a journey through the post-Vietnam west coast, where the travelling is still easy and being on the road is still good--but now it's not a matter of listening to bop on the radio and smoking joyful joints à la Kerouac. It's moving drugs by Greyhound bus across the border for the mob. It's staving off panic attacks at the first sign of intimacy. It's sex without emotion, hallucinatory hospitals, broken-down vets, and the murder of your own mother as a merciful release into the little of untouched nature that is left.
Christopher Adamson is a Toronto-based sociologist, historian and fiction writer. He has written about the early American prison, convict leasing inthe post-Bellum South, the history of white and black street gangs, theologies of wrath and of redemption, the influence of religion on attitudes toward government in Canada and the United States, and uncertainty in the medical encounter. He has published short fiction in Ontario Review, Exile Literary Quarterly and Hart House Review. One of hisstories was shortlisted for the 2006 O. Henry Prize; another won the Carter V. Cooper Memorial Prize for Short Fiction in 2006. Joyce Carol Oates described The Road to Jewel Beach as "wonderfully written, its narrative voice deft and assured, the atmosphere pitch-perfect."
ISBN-13:
9781550966176
Veröffentl:
2004
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.11.2004
Seiten:
92
Autor:
Christopher Adamson
Sprache:
Englisch
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