Rocket Man - Brossura

Hazelgrove, William

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1938467582 ISBN 13: 9781938467585

Casa editrice: Koehler Books, 2013

Riassunto

Rocket Man is a very funny and poignant comment on our times, when an upside down middle class is barely hanging onto the American dream. Taking cues from the calamity of The Great Recession, we meet Dale Hammer, a man who is determined to find meaning in a landscape of suburban homogeneity, looking for the moment he had with his own father when they blasted off a rocket on a wintery evening. He feels his son slipping away as he tries to get around “the silent shame of fathers and sons.” He becomes the Rocket Man for his sons scout troop and immediately his life implodes. Accused of cutting down the subdivision sign to his neighborhood, he becomes the lone rebel, going down in a flaming arc. When Rocket Day comes, Dale is determined to give his son more than his father gave him.

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Recensione

"The funniest serious novel since Richard Russo's STRAIGHT MAN, rich with the epic levity of John Irving and salted with the perversion of Updike." -Chicago Sun-Times "The rollicking story of a writer whose piece of the American Dream falls apart." -Chicago Tribune "This critically insightful diatribe against conformity is recommended." -Library Journal "William Elliott Hazelgrove's Rocket Man is a brilliant piece of writing, a work that meticulously dissects contemporary life in America with such a keen eye that the author is able to catch at least passing glances at us all." -Grady Harp, Top Amazon Reviewer

L'autore

William Elliott Hazelgrove is the best-selling author of three novels, Ripples, Tobacco Sticks and Mica Highways. His books have received starred reviews in Publisher Weekly, Book of the Month Selections, ALA Editors Choice Awards and optioned for the movies. He was the Ernest Hemingway Writer in Residence where he wrote in the attic of Ernest Hemingway’s birthplace. He has written articles and reviews for USA Today and other publications. His latest novel Rocket Man was chosen Book of the Year by Books and Authors.net. He has been the subject of interviews in NPR’s All Things Considered along with features in The New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, Richmond Times Dispatch, USA Today, People, Channel 11, NBC, WBEZ, WGN. He runs a political cultural blog, The View From Hemingway’s Attic.

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• Editore: Koehler Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1938467582
• ISBN 13: 9781938467585
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 291