The Children See Everything - Couverture souple

Hopkins, J.C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798991509169

Editeur : Eponymous Books LLC, 2025

Synopsis

The Children See Everything is a crime-thriller-coming of age novel that takes place in Orange County, California in 1974. The style is reminiscent of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and writers such as Karl Knaussagaard Ove, Roberto Bolano and Megan Abbott. It explores the themes of male violence inherent in the culture and how it is imbued in boys at an early age, specifically the two boys central to the story, Manuel and Gerald.

Wonderfully written, poignant and authentic. I could taste the sunlight, feel the heat and smell the heady mix of mown grass, home cooking, and dirty, sweaty children. The ugly dark adult world ghouls and boogeymen lurking in the shadows and hiding underneath the bed. Remember that last long bike ride of summer, those tender first kisses and, oh yeah, near misses with the neighborhood murderer? The Children See Everything brings it all back like only yesterday. What a fabulous book. - Bibbe Hansen is a veteran of Warhol’s Silver Factory, performer and poet and author of Factory Poems.

JC Hopkins' terrific novel The Children See Everything, appears at first to be a coming of age, but as the two boys, Manual and Gerald slowly learn of their fathers' secrets it all gradually comes apart. Since both kids are from the families of Mexican immigrants, it's also an American Dream that steadily transforms into the American nightmare. Set during the early 70s in California, when Reagan was Governor and Manson was on trial, this heartbreaking tale of surviving childhood stays with you long after it's over. - Arthur Nersesian, author of The Fuck Up, The Five Books of (Robert) Moses and Shit Show.

The Children See Everything is actually a young boy's tale of SoCal in the early 1970s that takes hard boiled grit and softens it to include a mother's love. It's a genre breaker! - Pat Thomas author of Listen Whitey! sounds of Black Power 1965-1975

JC Hopkins writes with a musician's ear and an artist's eye. Existential mysteries and hard-earned realizations overflow in scene after indelible scene of this quintessentially American coming-of-age novel. - Mark Swartz, author of Instant Karma and The Music Never Died

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

J.C. Hopkins is an American author, poet, painter, screenwriter and songwriter. He is the author of the novels The Perfect Fourth, I Was a Teenage Communist, An Extraordinary Turn of Events and multiple books of poetry. He is the screenwriter for the feature film Poets Are The Destroyers, winner in the best feature film category for the QueerX Film Festival and in the best comedy category for the New York Women's Film Festival. He has been twice nominated by the Grammys, for his song Dreams Come True, written for Norah Jones and Willie Nelson, and for his production of a children's album for actor John Lithgow. He also leads a jazz big band, the world renowned JC Hopkins Biggish Band.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Eponymous Books LLC
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798991509169
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Gill Carter
• Nombre de pages: 257
• 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