Big Things in Tight Spaces - Couverture souple

Gunther, Bram

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0615601758 ISBN 13 : 9780615601755

Editeur : Bram Gunther, 2012

Synopsis

Big Things in Tight Spaces is a picaresque novel on sex and pornography, marijuana, lying, stress, dancing, Africa, Amsterdam, King David, sick bowels, Hank Aaron, American politics, urban trees, and Crazy Horse. The book is about a relentlessly ambitious character trying to fit everything that interests and excites him into a space that doesn't allow for its bulk. At the emotional center of the story is a marriage that keeps shifting over time in reaction to the character's whims and adventures. Fire, the protagonist, wants his marriage to be open, but he thinks he can be faithful at the same time. He refers to it as "a new paradigm of marriage." The hero is earnestly greedy. The writing style is an attempt to fuse the psychological nuance of Saul Bellow with the narrative speed of Elmore Leonard, but in its own rhythmic way, the beat of the sentences switching from 4/4 to 3/4 to 5/4, depending upon the mood of the moment.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bram Gunther is the Chief of Forestry, Horticulture, and Natural Resources for the New York City Parks Department. His urban nature tales have been published in Under the Sun, Creosote, mrbellersneighborhood.com and in the books Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, Before & After, Stories from New York and Lost and Found: Stories from New York. His essay Urban Rustic was listed as a Notable Essay in the Best American Essays, 2001. He has been featured in The New Yorker, Talk of the Town, May 23rd, 2005 and November 16th, 2009. This is his first novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bram Gunther
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0615601758
• ISBN 13: 9780615601755
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible