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Mr Vertigo
Artikel-Nr:
9780571229086
Veröffentl:
2006
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.01.2006
Seiten:
278
Autor:
Paul Auster
Gewicht:
240 g
Format:
197x128x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Auster, PaulPaul Auster is the bestselling author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan. He has also been shortlisted for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than forty languages.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan. He has also been shortlisted for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than forty languages.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Im Jahr 1927 hat der Jahrmarkt im amerikanischen Kansas seine Sensation: den Auftritt des zwölfjährigen Waisenjungen Walter Clairborne Rawley, der die Gabe hat, durch die Lüfte zu spazieren. Zu Verdanken hat er diese Fertigkeit seinem Ziehvater Meister Yehudi, einem ungarischen Juden. Dieser flößte ihm Mut und Ehrgeiz ein, die nötig sind, um solch ungewöhnliche Taten zu vollbringen. Doch, wo Erfolg ist, stellen sich schnell Neider ein: Schurken, Gangster, Erpresser, Angehörige des Ku-Klux-Klan und der Mafia. Walter gerät in höchste Gefahr und muß beweisen, daß er nicht nur die Schwerkraft bezwingen, sondern auch über sich selbst hinauswachsen kann.
Mr Vertigo is Paul Auster's magical and evocative tale, both delightfully surreal and authentically American at the same time.
Mr Vertigo is Paul Auster's magical and evocative tale, both delightfully surreal and authentically American at the same time.