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(P/B) The Topeka School
Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97, and the son of psychologist parents. A renowned debater and orator, an aspiring poet, and - although it requires a lot of posturing and weight lifting - one of the cool kids, he's also one of the seniors who brings the loner Darren Eberheart into the social scene, with disastrous effects. Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, The Topeka School is a riveting story about the challenges of raising a good son in a culture of toxic masculinity. It is also a startling prehisto...
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ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΙΚΗ ΑΓΩΓΗ
Τέλη της δεκαετίας του '90 και, παρά το υποτιθέμενο "τέλος της Ιστορίας" και το θρίαμβο του φιλελευθερισμού, τα νεαρά αρσενικά της βαθιάς Αμερικής δείχνουν αποπροσανατολισμένα. Ο εκνευρισμός είναι διάχυτος, οι ρωγμές εμφανείς. Επικρατεί ο φόβος ότι μια μεγάλη βία όπου να 'ναι θα ξεσπάσει. Ο Άνταμ Γκόρντον, τελειόφοιτος του Λυκείου της Τοπήκα, προσπαθεί να μάθει πώς ένα αγόρι γίνεται άντρας. Μέσα απ' τους αγώνες ρητορικής, τις μονομαχίες ραπ αυτοσχεδιασμού, τις ψυχαναλυτικές συνεδρίες, ο Άνταμ έχει προλάβει να καταλάβει πως η γλώσσα δεν είν...
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(P/B) 10:04
In the past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. Now, in a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and political unrest, he must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility of a literary afterlife, and the prospect of (unconventional) fatherhood in a city that might soon be under water. In prose that Jonathan Franzen has called 'hilarious...cracklingly intelligent...and ori...
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(P/B) LEAVING THE ATOCHA STATION
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, Adam's 'research' soon becomes a meditation on the possibility of authenticity, as he finds himself increasingly troubled by the uncrossable distance between himself and the world around him. It's not just his imperfect grasp of Spanish, but the underlying suspicion that his relationships, his reaction...
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(H/B) THE TOPEKA SCHOOL
Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His parents are psychologists, his mom a famous author in the field. A renowned debater and orator, an aspiring poet, and - although it requires a lot of posturing and weight lifting - one of the cool kids, he's also one of the seniors who brings the loner Darren Eberheart into the social scene, with disastrous effects. Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, The Topeka School is a riveting story about the challenges of raising a good son in a culture of toxic masculinity....
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(Η/B) 10:04
In the past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. Now, in a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and political unrest, he must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility of a literary afterlife, and the prospect of (unconventional) fatherhood in a city that might soon be under water. In prose that Jonathan Franzen has called 'hilarious... cracklingly intelligent... and o...
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