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Q Road - A novel

English · Paperback / Softback

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Eigentlich scheint alles in bester Ordnung zu sein an jenem 9. Oktober im ländlichen Michigan. Wie immer bestellt Gutsbesitzer George Harland seine Felder, wie immer schichtet seine junge Frau sorgfältig Kürbisse zum Verkauf. Auch die Nachbarn schauen wie gewohnt aus dem Fenster - und sehen den zwölfjährigen David mit dem Fahrrad auf George Harlands Farm zuhalten. David träumt von einem Vater, den er nicht hat, und will alles tun, um George zu gefallen - hart arbeiten, Heu wenden, seine asthmatischen Lungen kräftigen. Und dazu hat er heute, am 9. Oktober, eine zündende Idee: Eine stärkende Zigarette im Gepäck, kriecht er heimlich in George Harlands 150 Jahre alte Scheune, das Wahrzeichen der Gegend. Eine Scheune voller Erinnerungen und trockenem Stroh ...

About the author










Bonnie Jo Campbell is the bestselling author of six works of fiction, including The Waters, Once Upon a River, and American Salvage, a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, AWP’s Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, and a Pushcart Prize, she lives outside Kalamazoo, Michigan, with donkeys.

Summary

Combining the modern-farm-life realities of Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres with the quirky humor and eccentric characters of Carolyn Chute's The Beans of Egypt, Maine, Q Road is a charming debut from Bonnie Jo Campbell.

Greenland Township, Michigan: On the same acres where farmers once displaced Potawatomi Indians, suburban developers now supplant farmers and prefab homes spring up in last year's cornfields. All along Q Road—or “Queer Road,” as the locals call it—the old, rural life collides weirdly with the new.

With a cast of lovingly rendered eccentrics and a powerful sense of place, Q Road is a lively tale of nature and human desire that alters the landscape of contemporary fiction.

Report

Tony Earley Writing with extraordinary empathy and grace...Campbell raises to our ears a sound not heard often enough: the heartrending cry of the human heart in all its flawed complexity.

Product details

Authors B. Campbell, Bonnie J. Campbell, Bonnie Jo Campbell
Publisher Scribner
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2003
 
EAN 9780743203661
ISBN 978-0-7432-0366-1
No. of pages 288
Weight 308 g
Series Mysteries & Horror
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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