Adam Pelzman

The Papaya King (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"An eccentric outsider is baffled by contemporary Manhattan in this engrossing second novel ... another entrancing, deeply memorable offering from Pelzman." -Kirkus Reviews

"How could anyone who has ever spent time in Manhattan resist taking a peek at a book with this title? Happily, The Papaya King bears more than a passing resemblance to one of my favorite novels of all time, John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ... I turned these pages fast ..." -Bethanne Patrick, Literary Hub

Bobby Walser's tragic childhood has left him a man frozen in time and mired in a world of his own making-one that has little in common with reality. Genteel and old-fashioned, his manners and habits are more suited to an aristocrat from a Chekhov play than to a young man on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Haunted by his failure to live up to the legacy of his great father, Walser's sense of ineffectuality is compounded when he suffers a series of deflating professional setbacks. He's baffled by the people around him, and his only solace is the hope of a romance-conducted via handwritten letters-with a mysterious woman who may not even exist.

As his despair with twenty-first century life reaches a breaking point, Walser bristles at a newly constructed sculpture that represents everything he loathes about these times. Realizing that he has more to care about-and fight for-outside himself, he marches toward a final showdown with this towering symbol of oppressive technology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jackson Heights Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781733258517
• Artikelnr.: 60122537

Autorenporträt

Adam Pelzman was born in Seattle, raised in northern New Jersey, and has spent most of his life in New York City. He studied Russian literature at the University of Pennsylvania and went to law school at UCLA. His first novel, Troika, was published by Penguin (Amy Einhorn Books) and later republished by Jackson Heights Press as A Cuban Russian American Love Story. He is also the author of The Papaya King (which Kirkus Reviews described as "entrancing" and "deeply memorable") and The Boy and the Lake (which is set in New Jersey during the late 1960s). His newest novel is A Plague of Mercies.