Lost Memory of Skin
Nominiert: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2012
(Sprache: Englisch)
A mature and masterful work of contemporary fiction from a great American writer.
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A mature and masterful work of contemporary fiction from a great American writer.
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Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders. Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid is in many ways an innocent, trapped by impulses and foolish choices. Enter the Professor, a man who has built his own life on secrets and lies. A university sociologist of enormous size and intellect, he finds in the Kid the perfect subject for his research on homelessness and reoffending sex offenders. The two men forge a tentative partnership. But when the Professor's past resurfaces and threatens to destroy his carefully constructed world, the balance in the two men's relationship shifts. Suddenly, the Kid must reconsider everything he has come to believe, and choose what course of action to take when faced with a new kind of moral decision.
Autoren-Porträt von Russell Banks
Russell Banks, geb. 1940 in New Hampshire, arbeitete als Schuhverkäufer und Klempner, fing an zu malen, studierte und lebt heute als freier Schriftsteller und Dozent in Princeton, New Jersey. Für sein umfangreiches Werk hat er zahlreiche Preise und Stipendien erhalten, u.a. den John-Don-Passos-Preis. John Brown, mein Vater wurde für den PEN/Faulkner Award sowie für den Pulitzerpreis nominiert.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Russell Banks
- 2013, 432 Seiten, Masse: 12,8 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Profile Books
- ISBN-10: 184668577X
- ISBN-13: 9781846685774
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.01.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
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"'Banks has a compulsive style and a gift for creating strange and often beautiful dramatic scenes. The opening pages of Lost Memory of Skin are the most electrifying I've read in a while' (Sunday Times) 'Banks is one of the United States' bravest, most daring writers' (Irish Times) 'Russell Banks tackles hard subjects with verve and courage, and Lost Memory of Skin takes us into the dark side of the dark side. Five stars.' (Margaret Atwood, New York Times bestselling author)"
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