Dance Real Slow - Brossura

Jaffe, Michael Grant

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0374528292 ISBN 13: 9780374528294

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2001

Riassunto

"Calvin eats dirt. He never actually swallows it, just places loose clumps onto his tongue and sucks, I think....He knows better, my son, but he is still young and needs to be watched."

So goes the poignant journey of discovery for Gordon Nash, a journey that began two years ago when his wife suddenly walked out on him, leaving him alone to raise their son. Calvin is now four, fragile yet stubborn, devoted to his pet, a dead Portuguese man-o-war he calls Mom. Faced daily with the struggle and joys of raising this bright little boy, Gordon learns the vast reaches of his affection and the limits of his patience. He plumbs the deep well of rage within himself, to find there disturbing echoes of his own father. And he comes to understand that nothing is as important as this complex, imperfect love--a lesson he must turn to when his wife reappears one day, threatening to turn his and Calvin's world upside down once again.

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L'autore

Michael Grant Jaffe is the author of Dance Real Slow (FSG, 1996), which was made into the movie A Cool, Dry Place. He lives with his wife and daughter in Cleveland, Ohio.

Product Description

Book by Jaffe Michael Grant

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0374528292
• ISBN 13: 9780374528294
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile