Gemma sep 2011 (2 Ergebnisse)
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Gemma Sep 2011, 2011
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The McCall family should be thrilled to be back in California, after what happened to them in Africa. Forced to flee their home in Nigeria by the violence of the Biafran Civil War, they turn up in a small town in the San Joaquin Valley, and everyone assumes they must be delighted to be back i…n their own country. But while life in the States may be safe, it's also foreign to this unlikely family of refugees. They dream of the day they'll return to their real home in Africa--a prospect that seems more remote as they watch the brutal progress of 'their' war on television. Fortunately, relief comes in the suave form of Anatole Hachette and Roland, his lion. Like the McCalls, Anatole has been thrown out of Africa. Unlike them, he has solved the problem of losing his native land. His plan is to recreate a piece of it in California by establishing a wild animal park, Safariland, on the dry plains outside of town. But will the cautious locals embrace the possibility of lions And can two such different worlds really be brought together in one place Marta Maretich is a poet and fiction writer . Her work has appeared in The Harvard Review, The Georgia Review, The Jacaranda Review and Christopher Street . Marta was editor of The Berkeley Poetry Review and Whispering Campaign, a journal of arts and literature . She has been awarded artist residencies at Yaddo and Norton Island, Maine . Marta Maretich lives in London .
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On a Saturday morning while in his early fifties, Mike Nolan, a hard-living, hard-working, hard-driving lawyer in New Jersey, was hit by a truck on a 50-mile bike ride and given up for dead. But he didn't die. After months and months of recovery, Mike looked the same as he always did. The onl…y change He had absolutely no memory. Guys Like Us, like a reverse memoir, is the attempt by his son to tell him who he is through tales of the Nolan family on the Jersey shore and Mike's powerful career in the city. Mike was a fierce man who ran afoul of his own father, patriarch of the Nolan clan planted in Ocean County. The Nolans are people who suffer no fools, take no prisoners, and you had better have a lot of liquor in the house. Three strong characters - Joe, the grandpa, Mike and Sean - dominate Guys Like Us. Add a big old Cadillac that Joe and Sean bomb around in, Sean behind the wheel at the ripe age of eight. Stir in the boardwalks and beaches of the Jersey shore and family feuds, and the pot boils. Sean Nolan does not fall far from the tree. It doesn't take long for him to realize he has to tell Mike, among many other things, what a jerk he could be. And that dark secrets long held in a young boy's heart are out of reach to him forever. Giving his father back his memory, warts and all, Nolan paints a poignant, and often hilarious, portrait of their shared past.
