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Lapham Rising - A Novel

Anglais · Livre Broché

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Informationen zum Autor Roger Rosenblatt  is the author of six off-Broadway plays and eighteen books, including Lapham Rising, Making Toast, Kayak Morning and The Boy Detective. He is the recipient of the 2015 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. Zusammenfassung Harry March's troubles begin when Lapham, a self-aggrandizing, ostentatious multimillionaire, commences construction of a 36,000-square-foot house (complete with a cutting-edge air-conditioner that cools his entire eight-acre property) directly across the creek from Harry's island home in Quogue, in the Hamptons. Harry, an island himself, is something of a wreck and half-nuts, but principled. His wife has left him for an event planner in Beverly Hills; he cuts the polo player out of his shirts; and he speaks mainly with his dog, Hector, a born-again Evangelical and a capitalist who admires Lapham's monstrosity as a symbol of American progress. But to Harry, Lapham represents everything that is ruining modern civilization. So he sends daily notes to his nemesis by way of a remote-control toy motorboat, which read: "Mr. Lapham, tear down that house!" When his efforts fail, he turns to politics by other means.] Lapham Rising follows Harry's progress during a single day -- through the strange habits of Hamptons social life; the power of local real estate (embodied in Kathy Polite, who advertises her agency by swimming naked from her boat every morning); the odd workings of his own mind, such as it is; and into his elaborate plot to devise a weapon of individual destruction with which to bring down Lapham and all the Laphams of the world. Of course, it backfires.

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Auteurs Roger Rosenblatt
Edition Ecco Press
 
Langues Anglais
Format d'édition Livre Broché
Sortie 07.02.2006
 
EAN 9780060833619
ISBN 978-0-06-083361-9
Pages 256
Dimensions 130 mm x 178 mm x 24 mm
Catégories FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: Small Town & Rural *, FICTION: Humorous / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Magical Realism, FICTION: Satire, FICTION: City Life, FICTION: World Literature / American / General, FICTION: Humorous / Dark Humor

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