Tropic of Scorpio - Couverture souple

Perchan, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1956005811 ISBN 13 : 9781956005813

Editeur : Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

When Harold Ratner’s former girlfriend and stand-up comedy protégé Justine returns to their tropical island from a mysterious absence his fascination with her is rekindled. But she is associating with a group of strange, very tall and very good-looking “Insiders” who are intent on forcing everyone off the island so they can “repristinate” it back to its original Edenic splendor. Harold, stubborn to the end, refuses to budge. As does a gimpy geek gal known as the Pythoness who swallows live white mice in a local bar for a living. When she is brutally murdered, the pressure on Harold to get out mounts. Still, like a modern-day Bartleby, he refuses. This sets up a chilling climax that will leave readers in stitches.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Perchan was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up there doing pretty much what was expected of him. After grad school he taught introductory composition and literature courses aboard three different mostly seaworthy vessels for the U.S. Navy's Program for Afloat College Education (PACE) before moving on to universities in South Chorea Korea. His poetry collection Fluid in Darkness, Frozen in Light won the 1999 Pearl Poetry Prize and the final judge, after generously praising the poems therein, was perspicacious enough to offer this prophetic observation about the author on the back cover: "I suspect he will not be invited to the White House for Poetry Month celebrations . . ." That was like about five Presidents ago, and thankfully appears to be holding true. Beware his prose fiction in Tropic of Scorpio as well. The geezer appears not to have lost a step there either. Also of note: Bob's Last Notes from a Split Peninsula: Poems and Prose Poems was brought out by UnCollected Press in 2021. In any case, Bob continues to eat and drink and write in Busan, ROK, under the bemused gaze of his wife, Mi-kyung Lee, who has done the real work over the past several years translating novels by Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell and Sinclair Lewis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1956005811
• ISBN 13: 9781956005813
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 164
• 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