Laura Warholic or Sexual Intellectual - Couverture rigide

Theroux, Alexander

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1560977981 ISBN 13 : 9781560977988

Editeur : Fantagraphics Books, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Theroux Alexander

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

by Alexander Theroux
Alexander Theroux, National Book Award Nominee, returns after 20 years with a compendious satire of the terrors of contemporary life. Nostalgic for the old days and old manners, a way of life lost to grace, loving from afar a mysterious beauty named Rapunzel Wisht, Eugene Eyestones, an erudite sex columnist for a Boston cultural magazine, fights against the rising tide of stupidity, focusing on would-be artist Laura Warholic in the hope that by saving her he can validate his ethical beliefs. But feckless Laura and the colorful-but-bizarre cast of characters surrounding Eugene - brilliant bigots, nihilists, Generation-X slackers, and zanies of all sexual persuasions
- threaten to pull him under, leading to the novel's unforgettable conclusion, a climax of betrayal and redemption of Dostoevskyan power.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Alexander Theroux's long-awaited return to the novel and, as in all of his works, his maximalist prose style and searching intellect are its chief attractions. Eugene Eyestones, a sex columnist for a Boston magazine, becomes enmeshed in the life of a would-be artist named Laura Warholic, who exemplifies all that Eugene considers wrong with contemporary America (of which the publishing profession serves as a microcosm). Eugene fights against the rising tide of American stupidity, but Laura and the colourful cast threaten to pull him under...

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Fantagraphics Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1560977981
• ISBN 13: 9781560977988
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 824