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Running in Place - Couverture souple

Karraker, David

 
9781410716880: Running in Place
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1410716880 ISBN 13 : 9781410716880
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2003

Synopsis

January 8, 1958. The sun was setting directly into Ben's eyes by the time they finally reached the Highway 47 exit road that would take them south into town. They made the turn and headed past the tree-shaded homes on Main Street to the business district--the Kroger's supermarket and the hardware and the bank and the rows of shops--with hardly a sideways glance, and onto a nearby tree shaded side street to the converted storefront apartment they'd rented two weeks before. So begins the tale of teenage married couple Ben and Janie Barthold as they make their way into the world. Running in Place chronicles the small incidents of their lives: Ben's single-minded pursuit of a college degree; Janie's struggle to raise their son while working in a local pizza parlor. Through gentle brushstrokes and brief, telling vignettes, Running in Place offers us a fresh and stunning portrait of the human condition. 'As a nation addicted to nostalgia, we like to think we remember and understand the sixties.... Karraker...gives us a multilayered story set at the dawning of those times. It is the tale of a young married couple on a middle American college campus, told with a clear eye and beautiful but deceptively accessible prose.... This is a compelling and deeply felt story, and one that deserves a wide readership.'Rosina Lippi, 1999 PEN Hemingway First Fiction award-winning author, Homestead

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Présentation de l'éditeur

January 8, 1958. The sun was setting directly into Ben's eyes by the time they finally reached the Highway 47 exit road that would take them south into town. They made the turn and headed past the tree-shaded homes on Main Street to the business district--the Kroger's supermarket and the hardware and the bank and the rows of shops--with hardly a sideways glance, and onto a nearby tree shaded side street to the converted storefront apartment they'd rented two weeks before. So begins the tale of teenage married couple Ben and Janie Barthold as they make their way into the world. Running in Place chronicles the small incidents of their lives: Ben's single-minded pursuit of a college degree; Janie's struggle to raise their son while working in a local pizza parlor. Through gentle brushstrokes and brief, telling vignettes, Running in Place offers us a fresh and stunning portrait of the human condition. 'As a nation addicted to nostalgia, we like to think we remember and understand the sixties.... Karraker...gives us a multilayered story set at the dawning of those times. It is the tale of a young married couple on a middle American college campus, told with a clear eye and beautiful but deceptively accessible prose.... This is a compelling and deeply felt story, and one that deserves a wide readership.'Rosina Lippi, 1999 PEN Hemingway First Fiction award-winning author, Homestead

Biographie de l'auteur

David Karraker lives and writes in Portland, Maine. His short fiction has appeared in the South Carolina Review and Puerto del Sol. He co-authored a musical play, The Magnolia Club, which opened the initial season of the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago and was subsequently produced in Denver and in revival at Chicago's McCormick Place Theater. This is his first novel.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1410716880
ISBN 13 
9781410716880
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
196
Coordonnées du fabricant
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