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I Was Howard Hughes - Steven Carter

I Was Howard Hughes

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Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2005
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7475-7394-4 (ISBN)
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Part "Great Gatsby", part "This Is Spinal Tap", this work paints a fictional portrait of a biographer, his notorious subject, and the illusions we hold about fame and fortune.
Howard Hughes embodied the American dream: envied by powerful men, desired by beautiful women, Hughes lived his life larger than all who surrounded him and yet died an emaciated recluse. This makes him the perfect subject for red-hot biographer Alton Reece. Riding high on the wave of previous astonishing success, Reece sees Hughes as more than simply a name worth the seven-figure advance he's demanding from his publisher. He finds in Hughes a kindred spirit of greatness, a man misunderstood and beaten down by jealous inferiors. But even as Reece struggles to 'know' his subject, his own rapidly unravelling life keeps finding unexpected ways to intrude. With a deft comic touch and an astounding narrative style, Steven Carter's novel creates a picture of a Hughes who might have been, a biographer who can't separate his subject from his own visions of grandeur, and a public that demands its heroes be larger than life - if only so they can be more easily torn down.

A graduate of the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, Steven Carter currently teaches at Georgetown College in Kentucky. I Was Howard Hughes is his first novel.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 17.1.2005
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Einbandart Paperback
Themenwelt Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10 0-7475-7394-8 / 0747573948
ISBN-13 978-0-7475-7394-4 / 9780747573944
Zustand Neuware
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