Wanted: Elevator Man - Brossura

Peterson, Joseph G.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0875806775 ISBN 13: 9780875806778

Casa editrice: Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 2012

Riassunto

Balladeer of the cityĘs broken and forgotten men, Joseph G. Peterson looks for inspiration in urban side streets and alleys, where crooked schemes are hatched, where lives end violently, and where pretty much everyone is up to no good. Depicting the lives of people who have woefully lost their way in the worldcriminals and victims, the unemployed and unemployable, the neglected and the indigent, the lonely and the alonePeterson nonetheless brings a poetĘs touch to his work, which is redolent with allegory, allusion, and Nabokovian wordplay. His last novel, Beautiful Piece, garnered praise from across the literary spectrum. Enter Wanted: Elevator Man, his powerful and ambitious new novel and the story of Eliot Barnes Jr., a man at the end of his proverbial rope.
Haunted by the larger-than-life shadow of his father, a scientist who may have helped develop the atomic bomb, twenty-nine-year-old Eliot Barnes, Jr., is an apple thatĘs fallen far from the tree. Saddled with a useless degree in literature, caged in a rundown apartment he canĘt afford, and embittered by his failure to live up to the futureĘs promise, Barnes, who dreams of a corner officean aerie roost high above the city, working with the higher-upsbegrudgingly accepts a job as an elevator man in a downtown Chicago skyscraper. Thus begins a profound but comedic meditation on failure in this life, how one comes to terms with not achieving oneĘs dreams, the nature and origin of such dreams, and, fittingly, the meaning of the American dream itself.
As unflinching as Nelson Algren and as romantic as Saul Bellow, PetersonĘs novel boasts wildly surreal plot twists and a lethal wit that frequently erupts into full-on hilarity. Wanted: Elevator Man is the perfect tale for learning to cope with diminished expectations in these dark and desperate times.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Joseph G. Peterson works in publishing. He is the author of Inside the Whale: A Novel in Verse, and Beautiful Piece, also published by Northern Illinois University Press. He lives in Chicago with his wife and two daughters.

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Book by Peterson Joseph G

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Northern Illinois Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0875806775
• ISBN 13: 9780875806778
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 178