Percival Everett: Telephone, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Telephone
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- Publisher:
- Pan Macmillan, 03/2024
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781035036585
- Item number:
- 12309812
- Volume:
- 256 Pages
- Weight:
- 178 g
- Format:
- 195 x 127 mm
- Thickness:
- 19 mm
- Release date:
- 21.3.2024
- Series:
- Picador Collection
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Blurb
'[Percival Everett's] books always feel like an encounter with substantive, playful thinking . . . sad, affecting and marvelous' New York Times A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, T elephone is an astonishing story of love, loss and grief from Percival Everett, author of The Trees, Dr No and Erasure(now an Oscar-nominated film).
Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in an incredibly niche field, he spends his days playing chess with his daughter, trading puns with his wife as she does yoga, and dodging committee work at the college where he teaches.
After his daughter is diagnosed with a fatal illness, Wells finds a cryptic plea for help tucked into a secondhand jacket bought online. Desperately seeking a way avoid his newfound sense of powerlessness, he embarks for New Mexico on a quixotic rescue mission.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.
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Biography
Percival Everett, geboren 1956 in Fort Gordon, Georgia, USA, ist Schriftsteller und Professor für Englisch an der University of Southern California. Wie nur wenige Autoren zeigt er eine große Genrebreite, so hat er u. a. eine Satire über das Verlagswesen, ein Kinderbuch, Kurzgeschichten, Nacherzählungen der griechischen Mythen über Medea und Dionysos sowie ein philosophisches Traktat aus der Sicht einer Vierjährigen geschrieben. Everett erhielt zahlreiche Preise darunter den PEN USA 2006 Literary Award und den Academy Award for Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
