The Big Why
Michael Winter's The Big Why takes the tradition of the historical novel and twists it into the cool, sinuous, entertaining shape we've all been waiting for. His characters are real and from the past, but the lives they live feel contemporary and emotionally modern.Winter's version of the American artist Rockwell Kent is an over aged, erotically fleckless Huck Finn ready to leave the superficial art world of New York and light out for the territory. Only he heads the wrong way: north and east to Brigus, Newfoundland, before and at the beginning of World War One. A socialist and a philanderer, certain in the greatness of his work, he is drawn…
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Weitere Autoren: Dewitt, Patrick (Ausw.)
- ISBN: 978-1-940436-42-5
- EAN: 9781940436425
- Produktnummer: 20230607
- Verlag: Counterpoint Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.2 cm x D3.0 cm 419 g
- Gewicht: 419
Über den Autor
Michael Winter is the author of The Architects Are Here, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and This All Happened, winner of the Winterset Award. He is also the recipient of the Writers' Trust Notable Author Award.Patrick deWitt is the critically acclaimed author of the novels Ablutions: Notes for a Novel, The Sisters Brothers, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize and most recently Under Major Domo Minor. Born in British Columbia, he has also lived in California and Washington, and now resides in Portland, Oregon.
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