Home After Dark - A Novel
Verlag | Norton |
Auflage | 2018 |
Seiten | 416 |
Format | 17,7 x 23,6 x 3,2 cm |
Gewicht | 941 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 0871403153 |
EAN | 9780871403155 |
Bestell-Nr | 87140315EA |
David Small's long-awaited graphic novel is a savage portrayal of male adolescence gone awry like no other work of recent fiction or film.
Wildly kaleidoscopic and furiously cinematic, Home After Dark is a literary tour-de-force that renders the brutality of adolescence in the so-called nostalgic 1950s, evoking such classics as The Lord of the Flies. Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his mother, follows his father to sun-splashed California in search of a dream. Suddenly forced to fend for himself, Russell struggles to survive in Marshfield, a dilapidated town haunted by a sadistic animal killer and a ring of malicious boys who bully Russell for being "queer. Rescued from his booze-swilling father by Wen and Jian Mah, a Chinese immigrant couple who long for a child, Russell betrays their generosity by running away with their restaurant's proceeds.