Leapfrog press okt 2012 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize A young naval officer crashes his F-16 fighter jet in the South China Sea, forever changing the lives of the five soldiers who find his body. They move through gritty post-Vietnam Detroit with the women they love in this linked collection of psychological drama, sexual escapades, and latent violence tinged with compassion, grief, and love, arriving finally at the death of one man's son in Iraq. Allen Learst's writing explores an interior war--the war of the psyche fought by all returning soldiers--and their attempts to adapt and survive without the knowledge it takes to heal or alleviate their pain.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Precise, moving writing-a powerful and compelling collection.'-Joseph Hurka, author of Fields of Light'The unadorned sentences often reach a conclusion whose truth makes you catch your breath. This unpretentious book is the work of a master.'-Edith Pearlman, National Book Award finalist'One of the most compelling stories published [by the Yale Review]. . . . A thoughtful, reflective, sensitive, and graceful work.'-Kai Erikson, former editor, The Yale ReviewThese are stories of unexpected encounters far from home, told with a vivid sense of place. A white man with more wives than money becomes Africa's least-competent thief, two Americans contemplate love's costs and possibilities in Mexico's mountains, a seasick missionary bumps into God on the equator. George Rosen's characters seek, and sometimes find, a reality in which 'everywhere, there is something remarkable.'. …