Adam Berlin

Headlock (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This "powerful debut novel" follows two cousins on a dangerous road trip from New York to Las Vegas (Booklist, starred review). Odessa Rose is the kind of guy who gives the term "hair-trigger temper" a whole new meaning. His violent nature has, more than once, produced blood. Dess was a college wrestling star who blew it all just shy of graduation when he lost a match and beat another wrestler to a pulp. Since his inglorious dismissal from college, he's been parking cars for a living in downtown New York. It's there that his cousin Gary finds him and lures him away to Las Vegas. Gary has some uncontrollable impulses of his own: hugely overweight, he's a compulsive gambler, playing fast and loose with thousands of dollars. But now there's an enforcer tailing him, a sunglasses-wearing thug who has no trouble breaking hands, arms, legs. Gary needs protection in Vegas. Who better than his strong, volatile cousin Dess? What do you do when you're at a crossroads in life? When you want to be a different person than the one who's made all the wrong choices? When your strength has become your greatest weakness? Headlock is "a brutal and potent debut novel . . . A grim, suspenseful drama to the end" (Valley Advocate). "Odessa Rose has a violent temper and a wrestler's strength, both inherited from his Russian immigrant grandfather, having skipped the generation of his father the economics professor . . . Gary's uncontrolled appetites and Dess's uncontrolled anger add to the tension of the trip, which is really about self-examination and redemption. The cousins struggle with the Rose family legend of a grandfather who fought hard and worked hard for the sake of the family, a family from which they are alienated. A powerful debut novel with fascinating characters." -Booklist, starred review

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Algonquin Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781565127487
• Artikelnr.: 52662491

Autorenporträt

Adam Berlin received a BA from Brandeis and an MFA from Brooklyn College. His work has been published in a number of magazines, including Other Voices, Santa Barbara Review, Puerto del Soland Bilingual Review. His story "Cojones" was nominated for a 1997 Pushcart Prize, and his poem "Triple Threat" has been nominated for a 1999 Pushcart. He teaches English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.