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Onward Toward What We're Going Toward
Set over the last half of the twentieth century, Onward Toward What We’re Going Toward is the epic story of the decline and fall of an American family. Postwar newlyweds Chic and Diane Waldbeeser are determined to carve out a life for themselves and their son, Lomax, in Middleville, Illinois. But when ten-year-old Loxax dies, Chic and Diane take refuge in religion, haiku poetry, doll collecting, food and bowling as they try to make sense of their overwhelming grief and guilt. Meanwhile Chic’s older brother, Buddy, struggles to make a life with his exotic, naïve wife Lijy – who is hiding a devastating secret of her own – while attempting to introduce the residents of Middleville to vegetarianism and Ayurveda. (An unusual endeavour in mid-century Middle America.) Onward Toward What We’re Going Toward is a bittersweet paean to failed lives and missed opportunities, and a deeply heartfelt and gloriously funny dissection of the American Dream.
In The Course of Human Events
This thrilling debut novel--equal parts satire and morality play--shines a sharp light on the dark and radical underbelly of the floundering American Midwest. Clyde Twitty could use a break, a helping hand. He's a young man lost--in his finances, in his family--and stuck deep within the fast-settling muck of a dwindling rural Missouri town that has, in every way, given up hope. The hand that reaches down, lifts him up, and leads him forward belongs to a fiercely charismatic patriarch named Jay Smalls, a man who exerts a kind of gravitational force--and breeds fierce purpose in those who find themselves caught in it. Not rattled by the increasingly sinister racial undertones of Jay and his posse, and desperate to look forward and not down, for once in his life, Clyde hardly stumbles when the path he's being ushered down takes a dark and irrevocable turn. As he plunges us into the violent spiral of a desperate youth, he explores with unflinching acuity the ugly nature of hate, the untempered force of personality, and the sometimes horrific power of having someone believe in you.
The Miniature Wife
In the tradition of George Saunders and Aimee Bender, an exuberantly imagined debut that chronicles an ordinary world marked by unusual phenomena. The eighteen stories of Manuel Gonzales’s exhilarating first book render the fantastic commonplace and the ordinary extraordinary, in prose that thrums with energy and shimmers with beauty. In “The Artist’s Voice” we meet one of the world’s foremost composers, a man who speaks through his ears. A hijacked plane circles a city for twenty years in “Pilot, Copilot, Writer.” Sound can kill in “The Sounds of Early Morning.” And, in the title story, a man is at war with the wife he accidentally shrank. For these characters, the phenome...
Voran, voran, immer weiter voran
Ein literarisches Meisterwerk über das Scheitern und Weitermachen, über Verlust und Verzeihen und über die Suche nach Liebe Amerikanischer Mittelwesten, Anfang der 1950er-Jahre: Chic Waldbeeser hat gerade seine Highschool-Liebe Diane geheiratet und sieht hoffnungsfroh in eine Zukunft als Familienvater und Eigenheimbesitzer. Sein Bruder Buddy ist ein ruheloser Geist, dem es schwerfällt, seinen Platz im Leben zu finden und sesshaft zu werden, und der nicht weiß, dass seine Frau Lijy ihr eigenes Geheimnis hütet. Über fünfzig Jahre hinweg werden die beiden Brüder versuchen, trotz aller Schicksalsschläge und Niederlagen immer weiterzumachen. Und Chic wird im Alter noch eine letzte Chance bekommen, sein Glück zu finden. In der Tradition von John Williams’ Stoner erzählt dieser epische Roman von zwischenmenschlichen Missverständnissen, die mit der Zeit zu unüberwindlichen Barrieren werden, vom Mittelmaß und den kleinen und großen Dramen des Lebens. Mit einer lakonischen und eingängigen Sprache macht Ryan Bartelmay uns zu Zeugen einer sich über ein halbes Jahrhundert entfaltenden Familiengeschichte.
Sycamore Review
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Salary Book
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Poets & Writers
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The World Almanac for Kids 2007
Offers facts on a range of topics, from animals to weather and from computers to sports.
Boulevard
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