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Informationen zum Autor Idra Novey is an award-winning poet and translator. Born in western Pennsylvania, she has since lived in Chile, Brazil, and New York. Her collection Exit, Civilian was selected for the 2011 National Poetry Series. She recently translated Clarice Lispector's The Passion of G. H. (Penguin/New Directions). She currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University. This is her first novel. Klappentext An outrageous, darkly funny novel about manhood in California in the 1970s. Seven men - friends, acquantances and strangers - gather in a suburban home in Berkeley. They intend to start a men's club, the purpose of which isn't immediately clear to any of them. ´Leonard Michaels writes prose of exquisite clarity.´ Ian McEwan Zusammenfassung The late 1970s. Seven men - friends! acquaintances! and strangers - gather in a suburban home in Berkeley! California. They intend to start a men's club! the purpose of which isn't immediately clear to any of them. But as the evening wears on and the drinks wear thin! they discover a powerful and passionate desire to talk - to unburden and to share! to try and comprehend their feelings! their insecurities! their lives. First published in 1981! The Men's Club is a scathing! pitying! absurdly dark and funny novel about manhood and masculinity.
