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Ransom, Jay McInerney's second novel, belongs to the distinguished tradition of novels about exile. Living in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, Christopher Ransom seeks a purity and simplicity he could not find at home, and tries to exorcise the terror he encountered earlier in his travels—a blur of violence and death at the Khyber Pass.Ransom has managed to regain control, chiefly through the rigors of karate. Supporting himself by teaching English to eager Japanese businessmen, he finds company with impresario Miles Ryder and fellow expatriates whose headquarters is Buffalo Rome, a blues-bar that satisfies the hearty local appetite for Americana and accommodates the drifters pouring through Asia in the years immediately after the fall of Vietnam.Increasingly, Ransom and his circle are threatened, by everything they thought they had left behind, in a sequence of events whose consequences Ransom can forestall but cannot change.Jay McInerney details the pattern of adventure and disillusionment that leads Christopher Ransom toward an inevitable reckoning with his fate—in a novel of grand scale and serious implications.
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Jay McInerney is the author of eight novels, two collections of short stories, and three collections of essays on wine. His latest book, Bright, Precious Days, was published in 2016. He lives in New York City and Bridgehampton, New York.
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- ÉditeurBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Date d'édition2001
- ISBN 10 0747553661
- ISBN 13 9780747553663
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages288
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Description du livre Etat : Very Good. Since Christopher Ransom has been living in Kyoto, the ancient capital of J apan, he has devoted himself to the study of karate. He doesn't just want t o be good, he wants to be transformed. Two years after a lapse in his scrup les drew him into crisis on the Khyber Pass, it is through karate that Rans om has regained some control, beginning to subsume his disillusionment and assuage his guilt. But soon he finds himself threatened by everything he th ought he had left behind - a sequence of bizarre events whose consequences he cannot escape. N° de réf. du vendeur RWARE0000028578
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