The Harder They Come
A NEWSWEEK BEST NOVEL OF THE YEARA TOP 10 BOOK OF 2015 (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)Set in contemporary Northern California, The Harder They Come explores the volatile connections between three damaged people—an aging Vietnam veteran, his psychologically unstable son, and the son’s paranoid, much older lover—as they careen toward an explosive confrontation.On a cruise to Central America, seventy-year-old Sten Stensen kills an armed robber menacing a busload of tourists. The reluctant hero is relieved to return home to Fort Bragg, California—only to find that his delusional son, Adam, has spiraled out of control. Adam has become involved…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-06-237039-6
- EAN: 9780062370396
- Produktnummer: 19400575
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 576 S.
- Gattung: Novel
- Ausstattung: Grossdruck-Ausg.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.1 cm x D3.0 cm 609 g
- Gewicht: 609
Über den Autor
T.C. Boyle has published fourteen novels and ten collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his novel World’s End, and the Prix Médicis étranger for The Tortilla Curtain in 1995, as well as the 2014 Henry David Thoreau award for excellence in nature writing. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara.
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