The Bitter Half - Couverture souple

Olson, Toby

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1573661325 ISBN 13 : 9781573661324

Editeur : Fiction Collective Two, 2006

Synopsis

Disrobes the reality of gender, performing a striptease of masks and prosthetic devices, the subtle articulations and miscues of desire

The Bitter Half opens in 1935 in Pearce, Arizona, where Chris Pollard, a famed if eccentric authority on jail breaks, has been called in to investigate the case of The Kid, an inmate who has broken out of every prison in which he has been held. The Kid appears and disappears, eluding his pursuers, while at Pollard's Wisconsin estate a rag-tag group of travelers and refugees come together, including a black family from Florida, a female candy store owner known as Bo Peep, and a troupe of down-and-out entertainers. As Pollard and The Kid traverse the wasteland of Depression-era America, an obsessive, evasive, and erotic attraction grows between the two, culminating in a final confrontation at the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. In revealing their tangled attraction and intertwined fates.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Toby Olson, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel Seaview, has published eight works of fiction including The Life of Jesus, The Woman Who Escaped from Shame, Utah, and Dorit in Lesbos. He has also published many volumes of poetry, most recently Human Nature. He lives with his wife in Philadelphia and Cape Cod.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fiction Collective Two
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1573661325
• ISBN 13: 9781573661324
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible