Titel: American Purgatorio
Schrijver: John Haskell
Bindingswijze: Paperback
EAN: 9781841956985
Conditie: Goed
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Beschrijving:
Jack’s wife has disappeared. But Anne has gone.
John Haskell’s American Purgatorio is an extraordinary debut novel, haunting, comic and achingly poignant. It’s a road trip into the heart of a country and a man, a travelogue of loss and redemption, a Pilgrim’s Progress for a godless world.
Jack’s wife has disappeared. She was in the car when they stopped for gas, he knows that much. He walked back from the counter, and then . . . Jack can’t remember. But Anne has gone. John Haskell’s American Purgatorio is an extraordinary debut novel; haunting, comic and achingly poignant. It’s a road trip into the heart of a country and a man, a travelogue of loss and redemption, a Pilgrim’s Progress for a godless world.
‘Terrific’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Truly astounding and unquestioningly original, besides being a gripping read. Quite simply, a miracle of a novel’ John Burnside, Scotsman
‘Fresh, light, deep, sad, funny’ Tim Pears
‘Haskell’s debut novel is like nothing else you’ll read this year’ GQ
‘Sad, funny and elegiac’ Independent on Sunday
‘From the Don Delillo school of fiction – in which diamond-hard craftsmanship is matched with an acute eye for the banalities of modern life’ The Times
‘A book that swims amongst the deep unknown but is alive with an understated wisdom, humour and tenderness’ I-D
Jack’s wife has disappeared. She was in the car when they stopped for gas, he knows that much. He walked back from the counter, and then ?
Jack can’t remember. But Anne has gone.
John Haskell’s American Purgatorio is an extraordinary debut novel, haunting, comic and achingly poignant. It’s a road trip into the heart of a country and a man, a travelogue of loss and redemption, a Pilgrim’s Progress for a godless world.
