Running on Fumes
When the electricity inexplicably goes out nationwide, the mundanities of life gradually shift to the rigours of survival. In this post-apocalyptic setting, an unnamed mechanic jumps into his beat-up car and drives east, journeying 4,736 kilometres to reach his dying father.As the narrator's journey becomes one of essentials - gasoline, water bottles, and gas-station food - and as the crisis engulfing his surroundings begins to weigh on him ever more, he seeks refuge in a woman, and later, with a fellow traveler he meets on the road. These two kindred souls join him on his path, though they seem to seek a different sort of redemption.As the r…
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Weitere Autoren: Homel, Jacob (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-88922-976-1
- EAN: 9780889229761
- Produktnummer: 22973617
- Verlag: Talonbooks
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 593 KB
Über den Autor
Christian Guay-Poliquin was born in Saint-Armand in 1982. He is now developing a thesis project on the hunting narrative and also works in renovation. The pencil behind his ear serves to mark his measures as much as it does to record his ideas. Les fil de kilometres (La Peuplade, 2013) is his first novel, now published in English as Running on Fumes.Born and raised in Montreal, Jacob Homel has translated or collaborated in the translation of a number of works, including Nelly Arcan's Hysteric and Breakneck, The Battle of London and The Last Genet. In 2012, he won the J.I. Segal Translation Prize for his translation of A Pinch of Time. He currently lives in Montreal.
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