Fr. 20.90

Vaudeville!

Inglese · Tascabile

Spedizione di solito entro 3 a 5 settimane

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Gaetan Soucy sets this acclaimed novel in a parallel-universe New York, just before the great stock market crash of 1929. Xavier X. Mortanse is an apprentice demolition worker who believes he's an immigrant from Hungary. By the time Xavier finds a singing frog in a miniature coffin, tries his luck on the vaudeville stage, and upsets a grandmaster chess match, Soucy has seduced readers into a netherworld of unforgettable eccentrics that riffs on chaos, corruption, and the surprising light of the human spirit.


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Gaetan Soucy has written four novels to acclaim in Canada and abroad. He teaches philosophy and lives in Montreal.

Riassunto

New York, at the end of the 1920s. Xavier X. Mortanse, a seventeen-year-old apprentice demolition man, who claims to be an immigrant from Hungary, falls into a hole -- the beginning of myriad bizarre humiliations he suffers, only to be shown mercy by a hairdresser named Peggy Sue who will later suffer a grotesque fate.

When Xavier loses his job, he and his singing frog are hired to perform in a vaudeville show, where freakish and sordid acts attempt to outdo each other. Violence and ugliness blend cartoonishly with comedy and music as Gaetan Soucy dares us to look into the darkest sides of human experience. No one in this fascinating tableau is who he or she appears including Xavier himself, who is, as his mother says, too many people and no one.

Dettagli sul prodotto

Autori Gaetan Soucy, Gaétan Soucy, Soucy Gaetan
Con la collaborazione di Sheila Fischman (Traduzione), Fischman Sheila (Traduzione)
Editore Ingram Publishers Services
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Tascabile
Pubblicazione 13.09.2007
 
EAN 9780887847820
ISBN 978-0-88784-782-0
Pagine 440
Dimensioni 127 mm x 203 mm x 27 mm
Peso 481 g
Illustrazioni Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
Categorie Narrativa > Romanzi

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction: general and literary

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