Goats - Couverture rigide

Poirier, Mark

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0747544921 ISBN 13 : 9780747544920

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2000

Synopsis

Ellis Whitman is a 14-year-old schoolboy, and his mentor is Goat Man, a dope-smoker who lives in Ellis's mother's pool house and tends goats. Together, the two embark on a trek in Mexico with the goats, but it all gets complicated when a goat is swept into the flooded river, along with Goat Man.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Fourteen-year-old Ellis is getting ready to leave the Southwest for a boarding school in the East. This means leaving behind his mother, and the only real father figure he has ever known, Goat Man. Goat Man has done more for Ellis than giving him his first bong hit. He has maintained a home on Ellis's mom's property rent-free since Ellis was a child, taking care of small tasks and raising a herd of goats-all the while teaching Ellis the meaning of stability, caretaking and commitment.

While Ellis is in boarding school, making the grade while staying (mostly) high, Goat Man rehearses for a journey he and Ellis will take during Ellis's spring break, across the border with his pet goats. When they embark on their cross-desert trek, they are forced to reevaluate a relationship they thought was the only thing that would never change in their crazy lives.

Hilarious and intimate, Goats challenges the conventional idea of family and home, while drawing us deeper into Ellis's journey into manhood. Mark Jude Poirier has an uncanny gift for chronicling the human condition and bringing to life a varied yet dispassionate landscape.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0747544921
• ISBN 13: 9780747544920
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 282
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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