Drive - Brossura

Keevil, Tyler

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1908434317 ISBN 13: 9781908434319

Casa editrice: Myriad Editions, 2013

Riassunto

On a hot August day at Vancouver airport, a distraught young man wanders into the Odyssey car rental agency, carrying a backpack full of beer and boxer shorts. Trevor Kelvin is in the midst of a serious crisis at least in his own mind. His all-too-comfortable existence as a wannabe filmmaker has been disrupted by a single phone call from his Czech girlfriend.In an attempt to get over her, and get his mojo back, Trevor rents a Dodge Neon and blazes down Highway 99, heading for California, equipped only with a semi-automatic pistol and his trusty plastic visor, and with a flea-ridden cat as his companion. As the drugs and the heartbreak kick in, his journey is increasingly fraught with peril, until the question is no longer whether Trevor will get over his girlfriend's infidelity but whether he'll get out alive.An odyssey of Homeric proportions, told with a searing clarity reminiscent of Willy Vlautin or Patrick de Witt, The Drive has all the adventure and surrealism of Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas but overlaid with heartfelt yearning and hope.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Tyler Keevil is the author of Fireball, which won the Media Wales People’s Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker prize. His short fiction has appeared in a wide range of magazines and anthologies, and his short story collection, Burrard Inlet, was published in May 2014. His short story "Sealskin" won Canada's prestigious Journey Prize in 2014.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Myriad Editions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1908434317
• ISBN 13: 9781908434319
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile