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Joseph Boone - Furnace Creek, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Furnace Creek

Av Joseph Boone

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This moving novel teases us with the question of what Dickens’ Pip might have been like if he hadgrown up in the American South of the 1960s and 1970s and faced the explosive social issues thatgalvanized the world in those decades: racial injustice, a war abroad, women’s and gay rights, classstruggle.A guilty encounter with an escaped felon, a summer spent working for an eccentric man with amysterious past, conflicted erotic feelings for his employer’s niece and nephew—these events setthe stage for a journey of sexual and moral discovery that takes Newt Seward to New England,Rome, and Paris—all before returning home to confront his life’s many expectations and surprises. Furnace Creek effortlessly combines elements of coming-of-age story, novel of erotic discovery,Southern Gothic fiction, and detection-mystery plot. Written with a natural storyteller’s gift ofimagination, it leaps the frame of Dickens’ masterpiece to capture the emotional intensity ofcharacters whose lives will haunt the reader beyond the page.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-02-21
  • Mått: 165 x 240 x 30 mm
  • Vikt: 870 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Eyewear Publishing
  • Antal sidor: 485
  • Förlag: Eyewear Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781913606350
  • Utmärkelser: Commended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (LGBTQ+ Fiction) 2022
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Joseph Allen Boone is the author of three works of non-fiction and the libretto for a musical based on Herman Melville’s The Confidence-Man, and a short story collection, Conditions of Precarity, is forthcoming from Eyewear in the near future. Among various writing awards, Furnace Creek was the only novel shortlisted for the 2019 international Beverly Prize. Boone is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Humanities Center, Stanford Humanities Center, Rockefeller-Bellagio Center, the Bogliasco Foundation, the American Council for Learned Societies, and the Huntington Library. A resident of Los Angeles, California, Boone is an endowed professor of English at the University of Southern California.

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Stretching from the American South to the Ivy League and the dream of Rome and Paris, Furnace Creek is a sweeping, Gothic tale of sex, race, and a young man’s education. I was totally entertained and, most of all, seduced.

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