As Flies to Whatless Boys
A Novel
Spanning from Victorian England to the West Indies, this is a prize-winning novel of adventure, love, comedy, and tragedy. In 1845 London, engineer, philosopher, philanthropist, and bold-faced charlatan John Adolphus Etzler, has invented machines that he thinks will transform the division of labor and free all men. He forms a collective called the Tropical Emigration Society, and recruits a variety of London citizens to take his machines and his misguided ideas to form a proto-socialist, utopian community in the British colony of Trinidad. Among his recruits is a young boy named Willy, who falls head-over-heels for the enthralling and wis…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-61775-200-1
- EAN: 9781617752001
- Produktnummer: 31915740
- Verlag: Akashic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 340 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'736 KB
Über den Autor
Robert Antoni is the author of the landmark novel Divina Trace, for which he received a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and an NEA grant. His other books include Blessed Is the Fruit, My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales, and Carnival. He was a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow (for his work on As Flies to Whatless Boys), and recently received the NALIS Lifetime Literary Award from the Trinidad & Tobago National Library. He now lives in Manhattan and teaches in the graduate writing program at the New School University.
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