Aloft

Chang-Rae Lee (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2004
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7475-7240-4 (ISBN)

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Being a solo flyer made sense to Jerry Battle. Once Jerry was up there he thought, everything looked perfect. But it isn't perfect for life is about to deal Jerry Battle his toughest hand yet. With his ailing father yearning to flee his 'Ivy Acres Life Care Centre', and his daughter is about to bestow on him a father's worst nightmare.

Being a solo flyer made sense to Jerry Battle right from the start. For his 56th birthday, his longtime (and recently ex-) girlfriend Rita Reyes had given him a gift certificate for a flying lesson. Once Jerry was up there he thought, 'here was the little space I was looking for, my private box seat in the world and completely outside of it too.' From a half-mile over the earth, everything looked perfect to Jerry. But everything isn't perfect and for such a nice guy, Jerry could wreak an amazing amount of havoc Life is about to deal Jerry Battle his toughest hand yet. With his ailing father yearning to flee his 'Ivy Acres Life Care Centre' and his son teetering on bankruptcy, and, for once, no woman in his life to rely on, Jerry's daughter is about to bestow on him a father's worst nightmare. But maybe Jerry Battle needs to finally work out what it is that separates him from his loved ones and be tugged back to earth to engage with one of the most compelling and unforgettable of family dramas. With Aloft, Chang-rae Lee proves himself a master storyteller, rivalling Updike, Roth and Ford, able to observe his characters' weaknesses and, at the same time, celebrate their humanity.
Aloft is an unforgettable portrait, filled with vitality and urgency, of a man who has secured his life's dreams but who must now figure out its meaning.

Selected by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best writers under the age of forty, Chang-rae Lee teaches creative writing at Princeton University and is the winner of numerous accolades and awards including the Hemingway/PEN Award.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.7.2004
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Gewicht	698 g
Einbandart	gebunden
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-7475-7240-2 / 0747572402
ISBN-13	978-0-7475-7240-4 / 9780747572404
Zustand	Neuware