Singer - Couverture rigide

Sher, Ira

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151014132 ISBN 13 : 9780151014132

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009

Synopsis

Against the backdrop of the Singer Sewing Company, a novel of phobias, obsessions, a string of motel fires, and a troubled friendship In the early 1980s,Milton Menger, a wealthy art dealer living in New Jersey, is called by an estranged friend, Charles Trembleman, with whom he’s had no contact in years. Charley is a traveling salesman for the Singer Sewing Company and his hands have just been badly burned in a motel fire near Memphis.He needs a driver so he can continue traveling and selling.Milty rises to the occasion.Together they embark on a journey across the South, visiting showrooms and staying in locally owned motels. Is it a coincidence that these motels keep going up in flames?
With a DeLillo-like nostalgia for Americana, combined with the dark humor of a Coen brothers film, Ira Sher’s storytelling draws the reader in like a moth to the flame.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Against the backdrop of the Singer Sewing Company, a novel of phobias, obsessions, a string of motel fires, and a troubled friendship In the early 1980s,Milton Menger, a wealthy art dealer living in New Jersey, is called by an estranged friend, Charles Trembleman, with whom he’s had no contact in years. Charley is a traveling salesman for the Singer Sewing Company and his hands have just been badly burned in a motel fire near Memphis.He needs a driver so he can continue traveling and selling.Milty rises to the occasion.Together they embark on a journey across the South, visiting showrooms and staying in locally owned motels. Is it a coincidence that these motels keep going up in flames?
With a DeLillo-like nostalgia for Americana, combined with the dark humor of a Coen brothers film, Ira Sher’s storytelling draws the reader in like a moth to the flame.

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PRAISE FOR SINGER

“Singer is smart, heartfelt, and wholly original.”—Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0151014132
• ISBN 13: 9780151014132
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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