Big Shorty - Couverture souple

Harper, Ken

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798886791440

Editeur : Luminare Press, 2023

Synopsis

Big Shorty is a humorous coming of age novel full of action and suspense.

It centers on family life in the 1950's and 1960's. We follow Winston Saddlesworth from being an 11year old Yankee boy shooting rattlesnakes in the pecan groves of his grandmother’s farm in Florida, back to Chicago where he in high school gets involved with gangsters in order to romance the alluring Camilla. His trespasses costs him a scarred nose and a send off as an enlisted soldier first with a stint in Bolivia to catch Che Guevara, next to Vietnam towards the end of the war where he gets involved with the Phoenix program.

Some magical realism keeps the reader alert throughout the book. The tales are tall and entertaining. Harper’s clever fiction mirrors the strangeness of life.

Winston returns home wounded from the war and suffering from PTSD. It is the group meetings with fellow soldiers and the heart warming no nonsense love of his grandmother that brings him back to life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ken Harper (1948-2018) was a freelance journalist for the Des Moines Register, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and In These Times. From 1990 to 2018, he was the director of marketing for several large corporations within the computer industry.Harper attended The Iowa Writers Workshop in 1982. His short stories were published in the Kenyon Review and In These Times. His novel, There It Is, and his children's book, The Spaceman from The Planet Omelet, were published in 2019. To learn more, visit www.harperthereitis.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Luminare Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798886791440
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 366
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured 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