California's over - Rilegato

Jones, Louis B.

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ISBN 10: 0679423346 ISBN 13: 9780679423348

Casa editrice: Pantheon Books, 1997

Riassunto

Seventeen-year-old Baelthon is hired by the wife of a California poet, a suicide, to help her sort through the family's belongings--a legacy of comedy, mystery, and violence--and falls for the poet's ravishing daughter. 25,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Louis B. Jones is the author of two previous novels, Ordinary Money and Particles and Luck. He lives in California with his family.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

rnia's Over leads us down an unmarked road to the coast and then deep into the rotten, labyrinthine house where James Farmican, the famous poet, shot himself to death years ago, leaving behind a legacy of adulation and bankruptcy. Now his family is leaving, and the young narrator--who calls himself Baelthon--has been hired to haul the furniture onto the lawn and sort through the attic and basement. But as Baelthon excavates, he also discovers layers of family mystery and comedy and cruelty, all of it piled too deeply for anyone to sort out: the unexplained disappearance of Farmican's ashes, the unfinished novel that may actually be his suicide note, the opera about cannibalism that his son is writing to rescue himself from obscurity, and, finally, the family's migration to the Nevada desert to claim their inheritance.

And Baelthon discovers Wendy, Farmican's sixteen-year-old daughter who keeps her checkers pieces taped to the board where she and her father left them before he died.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pantheon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679423346
• ISBN 13: 9780679423348
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 329