Автор: Porter Regina Название: The Travelers ISBN: 0525576193 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780525576198 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 16550.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: The adventures of two families unfold and intertwine--across continents and generations, spanning the 1950s through Obama's first year as president--in The Travelers, an absorbing tale of family, history, and the persistence of love. Meet James Samuel Vincent, an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish American background but hews to his father's meandering ways. James muddles through a topsy-turvy relationship with his son, Rufus, which is further complicated when Rufus marries Claudia Christie. Claudia's mother-- Agnes Miller Christie--is a beautiful African American woman who survives a chance encounter on a Georgia road that propels her into a new life in the Bronx. Soon after, her husband, Eddie Christie, is called to duty on an air craft carrier in Vietnam, where Tom Stoppard's play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" becomes Eddie's life anchor, as he grapples with mounting racial tensions on the ship and counts the days until he will see Agnes again. These unforgettable characters' lives intersect with a cast of lovers and friends--the unapologetic black lesbian who finds her groove in 1970s Berlin; a moving man stranded in Portsmouth, New Hampshire during a Thanksgiving storm; two half-brothers who meet as adults in a crayon factory; and a Coney Island waitress whose Prince Charming is too good to be true. With piercing humor, exacting dialogue, and a beautiful sense of place, Regina Porter's debut is both an intimate family portrait and a sweeping exploration of what it means to be American today. Advance praise for The Travelers "The Travelers is a great, grand tabernacle of a novel, under the roof of which it seems the entire history of the United States and all its people has been gathered into a single blazing congregation. It is full of tales tall and short, lives black, white, and every shade between, from the north, south, east, and west. None but the biggest-hearted, sharpest-eyed, most generous-spirited of writers could pull off a book like this. Regina Porter is some kind of visionary."--Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers
Автор: Porter, Regina Название: Travelers ISBN: 1787331008 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787331006 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 13190.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: James Vincent, born in 1942 to an Irish-American family, escapes his parents` turbulent marriage and attends law school in New York, where he moves up the social ladder as a prosperous and bright attorney.
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