The Motel Life, English edition
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| Verlag | Faber & Faber, London |
| Auflage | 2016 |
| Seiten | 224 |
| Format | 12,8 x 19,8 x 1,4 cm |
| Gewicht | 186 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0571315593 |
| EAN | 9780571315598 |
| Bestell-Nr | 57131559EA |
The hugely moving novel from Willy Vlautin, reissued with a new cover direction.
Klappentext:
Par. Opening like an early Tom Waits barstool-tale, The Motel Life tells the story of two brothers, Frank and Jerry Lee. Taking to the road in an attempt to escape the hit and run accident caused by Jerry Lee, the novel goes back to tell the story of their unhappy lives. With intense feeling and compassion, Vlautin explores the frustrations and failed dreams of the two brothers - one a natural storyteller, the other an artist - and renders perfectly the sense of entrapment they feel. Will the kid\'s death shock them out of their torpor or send them ever deeper into trouble? Can Annie James, a girl from their past, offer them any sort of redemption, however slim?Par. Par. Interspersed with drawings that come to form an integral part of the narrative, The Motel Life is a poetic, moving, beautifully naïve and tragic fictional debut. Alongside such seminal works as Annie Proulx\'s Postcards, Raymond Carver\'s What we talk about when we talk about love and Denis Johnson\'s Jesus\'s Son, it should cometo be seen as a classic of downbeat American prose.Par.
Rezension:
If McMurtry, Johnson, McGuane and Carver need a fifth to make up a literary five-a-side team, they need look no further than Willy Vlautin. The Motel Life is about the moving acceptance of life as bad luck, heartbreak, and a consistently thwarted but resolutely unkillable hope. Redemption comes through story-telling, and this is a tale told in a beautiful tone of deadpan wonder. Niall Griffiths, author of Grits and Wreckage
