Floodmarkers
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Ja
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Erscheinungsdatum
26.05.2009
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CatapultSeitenzahl
208 (Printausgabe)
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584 KB
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Englisch
EAN
9781582439433
The residents of a North Carolina town weather Hurricane Hugo, and other kinds of storms, in this smart and funny collection of linked stories (Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish).
The days leading up to the impending disaster are not at all unusualno portents, no signs of impending calamity. Bryce works his night shift at the hot dog factory, Isaac drives the bus to school, Evelyn attends a funeral. But when the electricity fails in the middle of the night on September 21, 1989, it marks the moment when everything will change: Hugo has arrived.
The storm builds, the wind whips by faster and faster, and interpersonal dramas, grudges, and rivalries are dredged up along with the flotsam and debris. Meanwhile, flood markers, painted red, track the height of the water from past rainstorms, and as the creek level rises higher than ever before, so do the emotions of the townspeople. Floodmarkers has us look bravely at the eye of the storm, as acclaimed author Nic Brown shows us that human nature can stir up a spectacular tempest all its own.
Stories starring lovable slackers and beautiful failures . . . on my List of Favorite Books, right after The Moviegoer and just before Cathedral. Smart and funny and sexy. Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish
Reminiscent of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio in both its structure and its tragicomedic view of a small town . . . his empathy and insight into the human condition is breathtaking. Jonathan Ames, author of You Were Never Really Here
The days leading up to the impending disaster are not at all unusualno portents, no signs of impending calamity. Bryce works his night shift at the hot dog factory, Isaac drives the bus to school, Evelyn attends a funeral. But when the electricity fails in the middle of the night on September 21, 1989, it marks the moment when everything will change: Hugo has arrived.
The storm builds, the wind whips by faster and faster, and interpersonal dramas, grudges, and rivalries are dredged up along with the flotsam and debris. Meanwhile, flood markers, painted red, track the height of the water from past rainstorms, and as the creek level rises higher than ever before, so do the emotions of the townspeople. Floodmarkers has us look bravely at the eye of the storm, as acclaimed author Nic Brown shows us that human nature can stir up a spectacular tempest all its own.
Stories starring lovable slackers and beautiful failures . . . on my List of Favorite Books, right after The Moviegoer and just before Cathedral. Smart and funny and sexy. Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish
Reminiscent of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio in both its structure and its tragicomedic view of a small town . . . his empathy and insight into the human condition is breathtaking. Jonathan Ames, author of You Were Never Really Here
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