World's End
T. C. Boyle · 1990
WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • In this stunning novel, one man traces the tangled histories of three very different families—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain “Boyle has emerged as one of the most inventive and verbally exuberant writers of his generation.”—The New York Times Haunted by the burden of his family’s traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine, and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts, Walter Van Brunt is a...
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„Worlds End war das erste. Wissen Sie, ich hatte Water Music veröffentlicht und es bekam großartige Kritiken und so weiter, aber es interessierte noch niemanden wirklich. Und dann veröffentlichte ich noch ein paar andere Bücher. Es war Worlds End, mein großes Buch über den Ort, wo ich aufwuchs, eine Art fiktive Autobiografie des Holländers und dann Peekskill und die ganze Sache.“
Christoph Amend und T. C. Boyle sprechen über den Durchbruch Ende der 1980er Jahre. 'World's End' war der Roman, der Boyle zum Erfolg verhalf – eine fiktive Autobiografie über seinen Heimatort Peekskill mit dessen holländischer Geschichte, politischen Unruhen und der kommunistisch-anarchistischen Gemeinschaft.
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