Venice Beach
A Novel
Habeeb's engaging novel skillfully explores the dark underbelly of growing up in an abusive household and trying to choose a new family. Moon's early life experiences are full of trauma and pain. 'When kids run away from home,' he reflects at the beginning of the book, 'people try to find them and send them back. It apparently never occurs to them that kids run away for a reason, and because running away is difficult and scary that reason must be a damn good one.' The author deftly concocts an emotionally tumultuous narrative with an array of misfits and outcasts who come together out of both necessity and love...Readers will root for the her…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-57869-071-8
- EAN: 9781578690718
- Produktnummer: 37523082
- Verlag: Rootstock Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 254 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.9 cm 570 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 570
Über den Autor
William Mark Habeeb was born and raised in Alabama, the son of a Lebanese immigrant father and a Cuban-American mother. He earned degrees in international relations at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities, read literature and philosophy at the University of Sussex and studied psychoanalytic theory with the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. He teaches in Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and lives in Virginia. He is a member of the board of Virginia Humanities, the state's humanities council. Habeeb has published over a dozen non-fiction books for scholarly, general public and young adult audiences. His short fiction has appeared in the Berkeley Fiction Review and Broken Pencil. Venice Beach is his first novel.
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