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Cargando... Late Citypor Robert Olen Butler
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Deeply disappointing. It's a great premise - First World War veteran's reflections on his deathbed on the night Trump wins - but the slimness of the volume (well, a Kindle's always slim, but you know what I mean) suggests this isn't quite the sweeping century-and-a-bit-spanning epic you might think. The Trump angle seems entirely incidental - shades of 9/11 in My Year Of Rest And Relaxation - and the ending is pretty silly. There are neat, moving passages but it's definitely a minor work. ( ) Robert Olen Butler's, Late City is a powerful and moving story. Sam Cunningham at the age of 116 is being assisted in his dying by God: a loving, humane God. The title of the novel is derived from Sam's career as a newsman. The late city edition, "a last-hour chaos of fragments from an arbitrary bracket of time." sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"A visionary and deeply moving novel centered around former newspaperman Sam Cunningham as he prepares to die, Late City covers much of the early twentieth century, unfurling as a conversation between the dying man and a surprising God. As the two review Sam's life, from his childhood in the American South and his time in the French trenches during World War I to a newspaper career in Chicago in the Roaring Twenties and the decades that follow, moments of history are brought sharply into focus. Sam grows up in Louisiana with a harsh father and escapes by enlisting in the army as a sniper. The hardness his father instilled in him helps him make it out of World War I alive, but we come to realize that it also prevents him from contending with the emotional wounds of war. Back in the U.S., Sam moves to Chicago and begins a career as a newspaperman, meets his wife, and has a son, whose fate counters Sam's at almost every turn. As he contemplates his relationships-with his parents, his brothers in arms, his wife, his editor, and most importantly, his son-Sam is amazed at what he still has left to learn about himself after all these years in this heart-rending novel from the Pulitzer Prize winner"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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