The Boathouse: A Tale of Human-Animal Coexistence - Couverture souple

Greene, Stephen L. W.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 151233264X ISBN 13 : 9781512332643

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Sometimes, a historical event is so riddled with false assumptions, so replete with bad decisions, so preposterous that the only way to deal with it is metaphorically. Nowadays, that would have to include the two-term Bush years. The Boathouse is a fable in the spirit of Orwell's Animal Farm, which, of course, took on communism. The main characters here are not Iraqis, but besieged swallows under attack and then imprisoned by the new owner of their boathouse. He is a bumbling commander-in-chief, just like you-know-who. Captain Don comes to the bird's rescue and the plot takes wings from there. The Boathouse is a simple story about lost innocence in a full-blown parody of war. It traces the border where fiction and nonfiction meet, which is where the Bush presidency, itself, dwelt. The book takes the reader on a rollicking ride from an idyllic lake in Northeast US up into Canada to meet the Lord of the Black Flies in his underground lair. Along the way, the readers meet JP Winslow, the PR Pro, who brags about his efforts in starting the first Iraq War; Lisa Norstrom, the young TV journalist, who is searching for some "gravitas;" Cleodis T. Cunningham who preaches his "bio-bias" theory and the three swallows, who, many times, seem like the most sensible beings in the book.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stephen L. W. Greene is an American professor of journalism with a PhD from the University of London, England. He started out writing for Irving Wallace in the 1970s ("The People's Almanac"), worked for nearly a decade as a newspaper reporter in Northern California ("Mendocino Grapevine") and since has completed many articles and books, including his most recent one on Southeast Asian history ("Absolute Dreams"). He lives on the lake in Ithaca, NY and does own a boatouse.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 151233264X
• ISBN 13: 9781512332643
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 310
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg