A Boy's Guide to Outer Space

Peter Selgin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

308 Seiten

2024
Regal House Publishing LLC (Verlag)
978-1-64603-511-3 (ISBN)

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1963. Hattertown, Connecticut. Leo “ Half” Napoli mourns his dead hat factory worker father while daydreaming of being the first man on the moon and thereby “ partaking of something of the infinite."" Meanwhile, he and his fellow Back Shop Boys (their fathers all worked in the dangerous, mercury-fume-laden back shops of hat factories) seek to learn the identity of the mysterious Man in Blue, who wanders the town collecting odd items in his rucksack. Elected to spy on him, Half and the mysterious man form a secret friendship in the course of which Half learns not only what “ Jack Thomas” has been collecting in his rucksack, and why, but the extraordinary circumstances that led to his fugitive existence — an odyssey extending from pre-WWII Bohemia to a German POW Camp in Illinois, and beyond.

Peter Selgin is the author of Drowning Lessons, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Fiction. He has published two novels, two children’s books, three books on the writer’s craft, and two essay collections. His memoir, The Inventors, won the 2017 Housatonic Book Award. His novel, Duplicity, won the Best Indie Book Award and the Indie Excellence Book Award. He teaches at Georgia College where he is nonfiction editor and art director of the Arts & Letters.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.10.2024
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Raleigh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 215 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
	Literatur ► Historische Romane
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-64603-511-9 / 1646035119
ISBN-13	978-1-64603-511-3 / 9781646035113
Zustand	Neuware