Monkey Boy

About the author

Francisco Goldman's first novel, The Long Night of White Chickens, won the Sue Kaufman Prize for first fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The Ordinary Seaman, his second novel, was a finalist for the International IMPAC-Dublin Literary Award. Both novels were finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Goldman's novel The Divine Husband was published by Atlantic Books in 2006. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, New York Times Magazine, and New York Review of Books. The Art of Political Murder (Atlantic 2008) is his latest book.

Summary

A novel of enormous achievement, Monkey Boy tells the tale of Francisco Goldberg, a middle-aged writer who grapples with his heritage, career, and growing up Guatemalan and Jewish in America.

Product details

• Authors: Francisco Goldman
• Publisher: Atlantic monthly press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2021
• EAN: 9781611856484
• ISBN: 978-1-61185-648-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Jewish, FICTION / Hispanic & Latino, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Guatemala; Mexico; Boston; Back Bay; New York, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary