Fortune smiles: stories

"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed and bestselling novel The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson is one of America's most provocative and powerful authors. In Fortune Smiles...his first book since Orphan Master...he continues to give voice to characters rarely heard from, w...

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1. Verfasser: Johnson, Adam 1967- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; Toronto ; Sydney ; Auckland ; Johannesburg Doubleday 2015
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Zusammenfassung:"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed and bestselling novel The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson is one of America's most provocative and powerful authors. In Fortune Smiles...his first book since Orphan Master...he continues to give voice to characters rarely heard from, while offering something we all seek from fiction: a new way of looking at our world. In six masterly stories, Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. "George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine" follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. "Nirvana," which won the prestigious Sunday Times short story prize, portrays a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finding solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States........
Beschreibung:304 Seiten 22 cm
ISBN:9780857522979
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