You've Got Something Coming - Couverture souple

Starke, Jonathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1936364328 ISBN 13 : 9781936364329

Editeur : Black Heron Press, 2020

Synopsis

This is a novel about a down-and-outer and his small daughter and his attempt to provide more for her than she has been given either by him or her mother. Trucks, an aging boxer, breaks his daughter, Claudia, out of a children's home in Wisconsin one night during the dead of winter. She is a winsome, feisty little girl who tries to hold her father to account, and Trucks loves her unconditionally. He gives her used hearing aids to help with her deafness, and they begin hitchhiking to Nevada. Claudia's mother, an addict, has disappeared and is probably dead. Their first ride takes them to Sioux Falls, South Dakota where Trucks teaches Claudia about ""need borrowing,"" or shoplifting. They have only $30. They meet a number of people on their journey, including June, a woman about Trucks' age who was abandoned by her husband, and Gerald, an older rancher in Montana who offers them a place to stay, an offer Trucks refuses. Trucks is unable to find work, except for boxing--he is trapped in an activity for which he is no longer suited. The damage to his body does not heal, but worsens, fight after fight. And it hurts Claudia to see her father hurt. Depressed and confused, his mind no longer reliable, Trucks steals a car and he and Claudia drive east, delusional and drifting in and out of consciousness, to try to reconnect with June.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jonathan Starke is a former bodybuilder and boxer. He has spent six of the past seven years hitchhiking through sixty countries. His stories and essays have been published in a number of magazines and literary journals, including The Sun, Missouri Review, Threepenny Review, North American Review, Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, and others. He is the founder of Palooka, an international literary magazine. You've Got Something Coming is his first novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Black Heron Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1936364328
• ISBN 13: 9781936364329
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 290
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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