How Are You Going To Save Yourself - Couverture souple

Holmes, J M

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1473677718 ISBN 13 : 9781473677715

Editeur : Sceptre, 2018

Synopsis

'Spare in style, strikingly urgent, his is a voice to get excited about.' Guardian

'A powerful rendering of contemporary masculinity in America.' TLS

'A blistering debut . . . Hilarious and compelling.' Independent

Both humorous and heart-breaking, How Are You Going To Save Yourself is a timely debut about sex, race, family and friendship for fans of Junot Diaz and Ta-Nehisi Coates. It explores the lives of four friends from the city of Pawtucket: Rydell, Lazarus, Rakim, and Giovanni, or more affectionately Rye, Dub, Rolls, and G. Once bound together by location and shared experience, their bonds fade and change as their adult lives begin to take different shapes. They are confronted with society's expectations of them, family pressures, and ultimately the way they see themselves - sometimes conforming, sometimes challenging the stereotypes. Ultimately they are trying not to fail themselves and the people they love.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

J.M. Holmes won the Burnett Howe prize for fiction at Amherst College, received fellowships at the Iowa Writer's Workshop and the Napa Valley Writers' Conference. He's worked in educational outreach in Iowa, Massachusetts and Pawtucket. His stories have appeared in the Paris Review and HOW Journal. How Are You Going To Save Yourself is his debut.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sceptre
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1473677718
• ISBN 13: 9781473677715
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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