Gordon Lish: Peru
- Yhteenveto
- Kategoria: kaunokirjallisuus, alakategoria: kaunokirjalliset sekasisältöiset teokset
- Materiaali: Pokkari
- Kustantaja: Dalkey Archive Pr
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781564788023
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- Katseltu: 116 krt
- Suosituksia: 5 kpl
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Arguably Gordon Lish's masterpiece, Peru begins with its narrator announcing, 'There is nothing which I will not tell you if I can think of it. ' Gradually, the story of a dark childhood secret-real or imagined-unfolds: in 1940, six-year-old Gordon murdered his harelipped rival, Steven Adinoff, in a Long Island sandbox…(unless he didn't). Peru's narrator weaves together strands of disconnected, mesmerizing trivia, resurrecting memories of the mundane suburban childhood that spawned a killing: the sense of tedium on an endless summer day; the squishy sounds of a hoe digging into flesh. Ambiguous, complex, inventive, and subversively comic, Peru is a compendium of unnerving observations about memory, violence, obsession, and the potential horror behind the facade of an ordinary life.