Snapper (A FIRST PRINTING)

Kimberling, Brian

ISBN 10: 0755396200 / ISBN 13: 9780755396207

Editore: Tinder Press,UK, 2013

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• Titolo: Snapper (A FIRST PRINTING)
• Editore: Tinder Press,UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0755396200
• ISBN 13: 9780755396207
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition.
• Condizione: Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Fine

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Riassunto

With wry humour and real freshness, SNAPPER charts the disastrous love affair between career birdwatcher Nathan Lochmueller and the place that made him.

Set in a brilliantly observed rural Indiana, 'the bastard son of the Midwest', SNAPPER is a book about birdwatching, a woman who won't stay true, and a pick-up truck that won't start. Here turtles eat alligators for breakfast, Klansmen skulk in the undergrowth, and truckers drop into the diner of a town named Santa Claus to ensure that no child's Christmas letter goes unanswered, while Nathan grapples with the eternal question: should I stay, or should I go? Kimberling's vision of small-town life is as characterful as Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, but bristling with the tensions of race, class, poverty and prejudice, it makes for a bracing read.

Recensione

Superb... always engaging, sometimes beautiful and often funny (Daily Telegraph)

Captivating... Snapper could do for birdwatchers what Annie Proulx did for small-town newspaper reporters and gay cowboys (Independent on Sunday)

Sharp, redolent and powerful (The Sunday Times)

Funny and Adroit Fiction (@MargaretAtwood)

A total gem... you can't fail to love it (Bazaar on Books)

Brilliant... an absolute joy of a book. I predict big things for it (Scott Pack, Me and My Big Mouth)

Delightfully entertaining (Esquire)