A bold and arresting story about the impossibility of love and the inevitability of grief by the acclaimed author of "Everything Matters "
Ron Currie, Jr.'s first two works of fiction, "God Is Dead" and "Everything Matters ," dazzled readers and critics alike with their audacity, originality, a[...]
Vad spelar det egentligen för roll vad man gör och vad man tänker, sådär till vardags?
Vad spelar egentligen roll, när man redan vet hur det går?
Om man heter Junior Thibodeau spelar det roll, då spelar allt roll.
I Ron Curries bok spelar allting roll, och de[...]
Kirjan päähenkilö Junior Thibodeau on vielä äitinsä mahassa, kun hän saa kuulla karmaisevan uutisen: ääni kertoo hänelle maapallon tuhoutuvan 36 vuoden kuluttua komeetan iskeytyessä maahan. Tuo tieto leimaa Juniorin elämää heti synnyinhetkestä alkaen, tai oikeastaan jo ennen sitä. Ju[...]
"Startlingly talented . . . he survives the inevitable, apt comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and writes in a tenderly mordant voice all his own." -Janet Maslin, "The New York Times"
In this novel rich in character, Junior Thibodeau grows up in rural Maine in a time of Atari, baseball cards, pop Cat[...]
A bold, arresting new work of fiction from the acclaimed author of "Everything Matters "
In this tour de force of imagination, Ron Currie asks why literal veracity means more to us than deeper truths, creating yet again a genre-bending novel that will at once dazzle, move, and provoke.
The[...]