Poor George: A Novel
The best first novel I've read in quite a long time...A merciless uncovering of the exurban wastelands of the spirit. —New York Review of BooksPoor George gives us George Mecklin, a restless, soft-spoken teacher at a private school in Manhattan. Depressed by his life of vague moral purpose, George discovers a local adolescent named Ernest breaking into his house. Rather than hand the boy over to the police, as his nagging wife insists, George instead decides to tutor him. His life consequently implodes. Filled with vividly acid portrayals of American life in the 1960s, prescient explorations of suburban anomie, and a riotously disturbing cast…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-34213-0
- EAN: 9780393342130
- Produktnummer: 34246460
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 230 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 504 KB
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Paula Fox (1923—2017) was the author of Desperate Characters, The Widow's Children, A Servant's Tale, The God of Nightmares, Poor George, The Western Coast, and Borrowed Finery: A Memoir, among other books.
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