Sugar Street

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Beschreibung

<b>'This propulsive and furious book is as fun to read as it is relentless and unsparing. Deranged and faltering America, Jonathan Dee has your number' Joshua Ferris, author of <i>The Dinner Party</i></b><br><br>In Jonathan Dee's elegant and explosive new novel, <i>Sugar Street</i>, an unnamed male narrator has hit the road with a large sum of cash stashed in an envelope under his car seat. Vigilantly avoiding security cameras, he drives until he meets a city where his past is unlikely to track him down. Renting a room from a less-than-stable landlady whose need for money outweighs her desire to ask questions, he seems to have escaped his former self. But can he?<br><br>In a story that moves with swift dark humour and insight, Dee takes us through his narrator's attempt to disavow his former life of privilege and enter a blameless new existence. Having opted out of his material possessions and human connections, the pillars of his new self - simplicity, kindness, above all invisibility - grow shakier as he butts up against the daily lives of his neighbours in their politically divided working-class city. With the suspense of a crime thriller and the grace of our best literary fiction, Dee unspools the details of our unlikely hero's former life and his developing new one in a drumbeat roll up to a shocking final act.<br><br><i>Sugar Street</i> is a leaner, more personal, but still uncannily timely look at the volatile America of today. A risky, engrossing and surprisingly visceral story about a white man trying to escape his own troubling footprint and start his life over.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781472151971

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

16 x 136 x 216 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Corsair