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Testing the Current

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London
Kiadó: Paladin Grafton Books
Kiadás helye: London
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Kötés típusa: Ragasztott papírkötés
Oldalszám: 319 oldal
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Nyelv: Angol  
Méret: 20 cm x 13 cm
ISBN: 0-586-08559-9
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PALADIN TESTING THE CURRENT 'The fireflies played, the lanterns burned soft and steady, music and laughter and the sounds of dancing floated out from the clubhouse' It seems that nothing can disrupt the ordered, prewar world of Tommy McAllister's middle-class Midwestern childhood, whose swarming, elusive details so absorb him. The depression is elsewhere. Mrs Steer dresses like a man, reads voraciously and supports the New Deal. Dr Randolph drinks Coke and punctuates his diagnoses with explosions of colourful bad language. The Governor has married his Indián foster daughter, embraced socialism and insists that his guests plunge naked into the river at5a.m. Tommy's father despises them all, pursuing a stolid, bourgeois existence as head of the local steel mill. But the outside world encroaches with Tommy's growing awareness, threatening the calm of the country club and the Island. Beneath the table Lucien Wolfe is kneading his mother's flesh as if it were a lump of dough ... 'An... Tovább

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PALADIN TESTING THE CURRENT 'The fireflies played, the lanterns burned soft and steady, music and laughter and the sounds of dancing floated out from the clubhouse' It seems that nothing can disrupt the ordered, prewar world of Tommy McAllister's middle-class Midwestern childhood, whose swarming, elusive details so absorb him. The depression is elsewhere. Mrs Steer dresses like a man, reads voraciously and supports the New Deal. Dr Randolph drinks Coke and punctuates his diagnoses with explosions of colourful bad language. The Governor has married his Indián foster daughter, embraced socialism and insists that his guests plunge naked into the river at5a.m. Tommy's father despises them all, pursuing a stolid, bourgeois existence as head of the local steel mill. But the outside world encroaches with Tommy's growing awareness, threatening the calm of the country club and the Island. Beneath the table Lucien Wolfe is kneading his mother's flesh as if it were a lump of dough ... 'An extraordinarily intelligent, powerful and, I believe, permanent contribution to the literature of family, childhood and memory' new york times book review 'McPherson is superb at evoking the lifestyles of a vanished era' publishers weekly Vissza

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