Meet John Trow

While the world around him races faster and faster toward the millennium, Steven turns to the simple consolations of nineteenth-century life.But so thoroughly does Steven embrace the life of John Trow that even Steven begins to wonder if he is just playing a part, or whether the unquiet spirit of John Trow is taking him over.

About the author

Thomas Dyja lives in New York City with his wife and two children. He has written two other novels, Play For a Kingdom and The Moon in Our Hands, as well as a biography of the civil rights pioneer, Walter White.

Summary

While the world around him races faster and faster toward the millennium, Steven turns to the simple consolations of nineteenth-century life. But so thoroughly does Steven embrace the life of John Trow that even Steven begins to wonder if he is just playing a part, or whether the unquiet spirit of John Trow is taking him over.

Foreword

'Chucking it all in - all the pointless anxiety, all the buzzing lite crap with which we surround ourselves - is an urge everyone feels, or ought to. In Meet John Trow, Thomas Dyja uses that impulse to drive a novel that's part satire, part domestic drama, part post-modern ghost story. And the whole thing works like a dream' - Kurt Andersen

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Dyja, Dyja Thomas
• Publisher: Random House Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.03.2003
• EAN: 9780099449676
• ISBN: 978-0-09-944967-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 260 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Connecticut, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, FICTION / Historical / Civil War Era, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary