An Austin Chronicle Best Book of the Year Fred, given name Freedom, is the sole offspring of Lenny Snyder, the infamous pied piper of 1960s counterculture. From a young age, Fred has been exploited by his father and used to enhance Lenny's mystique. Now middle-aged, Fred looks back on life with this charismatic, brilliant, and volatile ringmaster, who is as captivating in these pages as he was to his devoted disciples back then. We see Lenny in his prime and then as he gradually loses his magnetic confidence and leading role at the end of the sixties. Lenny demands loyaty but gives none back in return; he preaches love but treats his family with almost reflexive cruelty. And Fred remembers all of it--the chaos, the spite, the affection. A kaledoscopic saga, this novel is at once a profound allegory for America and a deeply intimate portrait of a father and son.
Joshua Furst Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)
Joshua Furst schafft fesselnde Fiktion, die durch die Linse eines Kindes zum Nachdenken über die menschliche Verfassung anregt. Seine meisterhaften Kurzgeschichten tauchen mit einer fast magischen Qualität in emotionale Komplexitäten ein. Das Werk zeichnet sich durch ein tiefes Verständnis der Psyche aus und schafft Erzählungen, die sowohl ergreifend als auch zutiefst beunruhigend sind. Die Leser erleben Fursts einfühlsame Behandlung von Themen, die letztendlich sowohl erfreulich als auch wichtig sind.
The Sabotage Cafe
- 272 Seiten
- 10 Lesestunden
Amidst a group of would-be revolutionaries squatting in the Sabotage Cafe, 16-year-old runaway Cheryl re-enacts her mother's troubled coming-of-age, initiated as she is into a sullied melange of drugs, awkward sex, glib anarchy and acts of vandalism and violence.