Jim Dodge

Broschiertes Buch

Stone Junction

Beschreibung

Annalee Pearce is a pregnant 16-year-old who has been placed in a corrective centre run by nuns for refusing to co-operate with authorities. Once in there, she soon rebels, breaks a sister's jaw with a "roundhouse right" and, when her son Daniel is born, she steals away into the rain.

Autor

Jim Dodge is the author of three novels, including Fup and Not Fade Away, and a collection of poetry and short prose, Rain on the River. He lived for many years on an isolated ranch in western Sonoma County and has been by turns an apple picker, a carpet layer, a teacher, a professional gambler, a shepherd for five years, a woodcutter and an environmental restorer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Atlantic
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 135mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780802159922
• ISBN-10: 0802159923
• Artikelnr.: 63700696

Rezensionen

This novel is remarkable for its breadth. The AMO is skilfully woven into the fabric of real America, and Dodge's sweeping take on that country, combined with the humanity of each of his vast array of characters, lends this book a particular kind of majesty Observer