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Cadillac Orpheus

Autor Solon Timothy Woodward Dion Graham
en Limba Engleză CD-Audio – feb 2008

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A darkly comic novel of class, struggle, and crime within three generations of an African- American family in the Deep South.
Jesmond Toak is a repo man in the fictional town of Johnsonville, Florida. A poor African-American in a hurricane alley on the coast, Jesmond has a troubled relationship with his father, Feddy, who is seeing a white woman who only sleeps with black men. Peaches Richmond, the woman Jesmond loves, is married to a threatening man they all call "Special Ed." And their pastor's gay son, Bayonne, has been implicated in the suicide by gas asphyxiation of his boyfriend, Smullian. As the deaths, disasters, and disappearances mount, Hurricane Aretha approaches.
Woodward ties together these unruly plot points with madcap glee and skill; it's not every day one runs across the word "homunculus," references to Kierkegaard, and the phrase "get kronked for Christ " in the same book. As lyrical as Cormac McCarthy, as sexy as Zane, Woodward has crafted a genre-defying, present-day romp that reveals a side of Florida far removed from Disney World.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781598875843
ISBN-10: 1598875841
Dimensiuni: 140 x 162 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:CDs.
Editura: Highbridge Company

Descriere

A darkly comic novel of class, struggle, and crime within three generations of an African- American family in the Deep South.
Jesmond Toak is a repo man in the fictional town of Johnsonville, Florida. A poor African-American in a hurricane alley on the coast, Jesmond has a troubled relationship with his father, Feddy, who is seeing a white woman who only sleeps with black men. Peaches Richmond, the woman Jesmond loves, is married to a threatening man they all call "Special Ed." And their pastor's gay son, Bayonne, has been implicated in the suicide by gas asphyxiation of his boyfriend, Smullian. As the deaths, disasters, and disappearances mount, Hurricane Aretha approaches.
Woodward ties together these unruly plot points with madcap glee and skill; it's not every day one runs across the word "homunculus," references to Kierkegaard, and the phrase "get kronked for Christ!" in the same book. As lyrical as Cormac McCarthy, as sexy as Zane, Woodward has crafted a genre-defying, present-day romp that reveals a side of Florida far removed from Disney World.

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In a town called Johnsonville on the northern Florida coast, a family called the Toaks have pushed every possible social boundary to its logical extreme for three generations. Feddy Toak, in his forties, is a medical school dropout, recovering alcohol and cocaine addict, and former handyman. His father, Teo, is one of Johnsonville's most prosperous bail bondsmen, slumlord, and idol to a diminishing old guard of hustlers and con men. Jesmond Toak, Feddy's son, haunted by his father's violent past and current failures, is turning toward the low road.
The entire city seethes with schemes and intrigue. Suicides and murders, infidelities and violence mount and converge with shattering precision on the eve of a hurricane, forcing the entire community to struggle with its demons--and search for some chance at redemption.
Chronicling a slice of American landscape and culture with rare levels of depth and originality, "Cadillac Orpheus" defies categorization: it is by turns exuberant, terrifying, hilarious, brave, brazen, and, above all, wondrous.

Recenzii

Dion Graham brings Woodward's unorthodox tale to life in this inspired reading so realistic and enjoyable it makes listeners feel as if they're eavesdropping on the Toaks family of Johnsonville, Fla.
--"Publishers Weekly"
Just sit back and go for a joy ride with narrator Dion Graham in the driver's seat. . . . Savor the richness of his dialect-smart reading, the way his voice slides over speech rhythms, and his mini-portraits of the large cast of characters.
--"AudioFile"

Notă biografică

Solon Timothy Woodward studied philosophy and biology at Harvard and holds a degree in medicine from the University of Virginia. He has been a Scholar at Sewanee and Breadloaf. Nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, his short fiction has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Indiana Review, Shenandoah, and The African-American Review, among others. Woodward grew up in Salinas/San Jose and has worked in Alexandria, Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, San Diego, Houston, and Rochester, Minnesota. A practicing physician, he lives with his family in Jacksonville, Florida.

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