Nine Below Zero

Zusatztext "Given Canty's fondness for the American loner and the lonely landscape of the American West! it's no wonder that his latest novel is set in rural Montana in winter! or that his two principal characters--and ex-Senator's granddaughter and a Native American carpenter--share nothing but a sense of isolation in their respective worlds. Tragedy unites them! and! caught in the narrow judgment of a small town! they are surprised to discover that sometimes solace requires someone else.  -- The New Yorker "Canty's forte is to examine human relationships with the precision of a Sue Miller or Louise Erdrich within the context of a fast-moving narrative.  Once he's got you in his thrall! you're  as helpless as his lovers in the hands of fate."  -- Newsday "A brilliant second novel that confirms the arrival of a major new talent in fiction."  -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune Informationen zum Autor Kevin Canty lives in Montana. Klappentext From the acclaimed author of A Stranger in this World and Into the Great Wide Open comes a novel that explores reckless love and penetrates the unrelenting winter landscape of the American West. Marvin Deernose! a Native American carpenter and recovering alcoholic! has just returned to his Montana hometown with hopes of finding a new start. Early one snowy morning! Marvin notices an overturned Cadillac down an embankment. After rescuing the elderly Senator Henry Neihart! who has just suffered a stroke! Marvin is invited to the Senator's estate where he is immediately drawn to Justine Gallego! the Senator's wayward! unhappily married granddaughter. As these tarnished souls recognize their profound! shared attraction! they dive headlong into a dangerous and intense affair that forever alters the course of their lives. He bent to kiss her and found last night's bar in her hair: cigarette smoke, stale beer and pine disinfectant. Lie down with bartenders, he thought, wake up with angels. A sense of fairness. He summoned his courage to kiss her neck. She chased rabbits in her sleep, stirring and mumbling. Marvin Deernose slipped out of the bedroom in stocking feet and laced up his boots in the kitchen. The philosophical Indian: he liked this hour before daylight, when he could stand outside himself, watching. An inheritance from his father, who never slept past six-thirty in his life. Marvin longed for coffee but Carla was a coffee artist, whole beans and the grinder and Herr Coffee, the German machine. No way to fire it up without waking her. He gave up, rested in her kitchen chair for a moment, enjoying the quiet, the heaviness of his body and the blue edge around every shape. The philosophical Indian finds something to admire even in the depths of a hangover. Nothing is lost on him. Empty beer cans stood along the counter like witnesses. Guilty, they declared, guilty, guilty, guilty. Quarter to six, half an hour before daylight. A memory: Marvin and his father sitting around the kitchen table while the rest of the house slept, his father listening to the radio, the cow and pig news out of Billings. Cold wind pressed against the windows, a thousand miles of empty sky. It was only November but winter already, with months to come. Marvin hunched down into his good wool coat and stayed a minute longer in the warmth of her house. A longing for marriage, normality. He rubbed his face into his hands and felt the damage that had not been slept away. A moment's glimpse of the soul inside his chest, the pearly whiteness shining through the black of his sins. Like an egg. Curl up inside it. He thought of Carla sleeping, foul naked comfort between the sheets, cursing in her dreams. No, you fuck you, she told him, sound asleep. An empty pack of Marlboro lights lay crumpled on the table. Marvin saw it, felt his head spin slightly, one degree off, and then it was time to go. Temple of h...

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Kevin Canty

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• Autori: Kevin Canty
• Editore: Vintage USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 05.09.2000
• EAN: 9780375707995
• ISBN: 978-0-375-70799-5
• Pagine: 384
• Dimensioni: 133 mm x 203 mm x 22 mm
• Serie: Vintage Contemporaries; Vintage Contemporaries
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi