The Door-Man

The Door-Man

Peter Matthiessen Wheelwright

15,44 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
Fomite
Año de edición:
2022
Materia
Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781953236470
15,44 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Perelló (Valencia)
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Donde los libros
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)

Recommended as 'One of the Best Books of 2022' by The New Yorker. From the author of As It Is On Earth, 2013 recipient of The PEN/Hemingway Honorable Mention for Literary Excellence in Debut Fiction.'5 of 5 stars' - Foreword Clarion Reviews'Wheelwright is a thoughtful, meticulous writer...A scientifically intriguing, dramatic, and challenging read.' - Kirkus ReviewsIn 1917, during the construction of a large reservoir in the Catskill hamlet of Gilboa, New York, a young paleontologist named Winifred Goldring identified fossils from an ancient forest flooded millions of years ago when the earth’s botanical explosion of oxygen opened a path for the evolution of humankind. However, the reservoir water was needed for NYC, and the fossils were buried once again during the flooding of the doomed town.A mix of fact and fiction, The Door-Man follows three generations of interwoven families who share a deep wound from Gilboa’s last days. The story is told by Winifred’s grandson, a disaffected NYC doorman working near the Central Park Reservoir during its decommissioning in 1993.The brief and provisional nature of one’s life on earth - as well as the nested histories of the places, people and events that give meaning to it - forms the backdrop to a reckoning with 'Deep Time' within the tangled roots and fragile bonds of family.

Artículos relacionados

  • The Only Witness
    Pamela Beason / TBD
    A MISSING BABYSeventeen-year-old Brittany Morgan dashed into the store for just a minute, leaving her sleeping baby in the car. Now Ivy's gone and half the town believes Brittany murdered her daughter.A HAUNTED DETECTIVEDetective Matthew Finn, a big-city fish out of water in small-town Evansburg, Washington, struggles with his wife's betrayal as he investigates Ivy Morg...
    Disponible

    20,64 €

  • The Gender of Inanimate Objects and Other Stories
    Laura Marello
    In the phosphorescent title novella of Laura Marello's collection, an enigmatic drifter pursues her circuitous path through the intricate cultural terrain of Sweetwater County, California, a patchwork of communities where "everyone speaks the wrong language." Through subtle, disciplined prose inflected with the deep colors and clear lines of ancient Mykonos and the northern...
    Disponible

    15,29 €

  • What's the Word?
    Lawrence Gordon
    This is a work of non-fiction. The events penned herein reflect real life situations; great times and terrible times; which my family, my friends, and I endured.      This work will reflect the spiritual aspects of my family. I was born and raised in our family church. The name of the church was God’s Universal House of Prayer and my Uncle, James Henderson was the Pastor until...
    Disponible

    7,19 €

  • Meritocrats
    Stuart Evans
    Stuart Evans’s first novel is a comedy-of-ill-manners set in a nouveau riche milieu: a fantastic satirical performance and hyper-referential homage to masters past and present. Paul Keller is the Stephen Dedalus of the piece, the son of Robert and Sylvie, whose internal monologue is spliced into the action, and whose incestuous feelings for his sister lead to an increase in his...
    Disponible

    19,71 €

  • Jack the Lad
    Frank English
    A tale based loosely in reality, this story traces the fortunes of the Ingles family in the West Riding coal fields around Wakefield. Theirs is a saga that could be replicated time after time in an area where scratching a living wasn't easy, and where coal, drink, and occasional infidelity played integral parts in the life of the community. Their story starts in the mid-194...
    Disponible

    13,53 €

  • The Empty Chair
    Penny Goetjen
    o A steamy Caribbean islando A missing female photographero A daughter’s relentless search and her entanglement in the island’s twisted subculture Don’t expect an umbrella in your drink when you escape to the Virgin Islands in this heart-pounding suspense novel as young Olivia Benning desperately searches for her photographer mother who has gone missing during a covert assignme...
    Disponible

    12,62 €