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Hard Rain Falling
Don Carpenter (1931-1995) was an American writer, best known as the author of Hard Rain Falling, which the Independent described as ‘bring[ing] gold to grit’. He wrote numerous novels, novellas, short stories and screenplays over the course of a 22-year career. Facing a mounting series of debilitating illnesses, Carpenter committed suicide in 1995.
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Saganak Altinda
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Hard rain falling. Ediz. italiana
"Hard Rain Falling", libro d'esordio di Carpenter pubblicato nel 1966, è un racconto dostoevskiano duro come il petrolio, sul delitto, sul castigo e la ricerca di una redenzione impossibile di fronte alla brutalità del sistema. A Portland, nell'Oregon degli anni Quaranta, Jack Levitt è un adolescente rimasto orfano che vive di espedienti, vagabondando tra alberghi da quattro soldi e squallide sale da biliardo. Quando conosce Billy Lancing, un giovane nero scappato di casa e straordinario truffatore di biliardo, i due diventano amici, e insieme si sentono invincibili. Ma, come spesso accade quando sei costretto a vivere ai margini, le cose finiscono male e Jack viene rinchiuso in riformatorio, dove trascorre anni di abusi e isolamento. Nel frattempo Billy ha scalato l'ascensore sociale ed è entrato a far parte della classe media: si è sposato, ha avuto un figlio, ha acquistato un'attività e si è fatto un'amante. Jack, invece, ha provato a diventare un boxeur a San Francisco, ma non ha funzionato. Entrambi scoprono di non poter sfuggire al loro passato tormentato, perché una volta che sei fuori dal sistema, nessuno ti aprirà una porta per rientrarci. Ogni tuo fallimento sarà ricondotto al tuo essere un fallito, in una spirale strutturale che non guarda in faccia nessuno. I loro strazianti percorsi, interiori e reali, convergeranno di nuovo in una cella di San Quentin, fondendosi in un'intimità bruciante e una nuda vulnerabilità. Un romanzo criminale, un romanzo carcerario, un romanzo hard-boiled, ma anche e soprattutto un romanzo sulla solitudine, sull'impotenza, sulla spersonalizzazione del sistema, sulla colpa e sulla punizione, sulla razza, la sessualità, l'essere genitori, l'amicizia, l'empatia e l'amore. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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Un par de cómicos
Desde hace años, Jim Larson y Dave Ogilvie forman un célebre dúo cómico cómodamente asentado en la fama. Cuando no están actuando en Las Vegas o de gira por el país, se encuentran en Hollywood grabando alguna de sus taquilleras y triviales películas. La amistad entre Dave y Jim parece haber sobrevivido al tiempo, al éxito (también al extraño cansancio que éste conlleva), a la implacable maquinaria del show business, e incluso a algún que otro avispado agente que quiere que Jim emprenda una carrera en solitario. A pesar de todo, siempre han sabido moverse como pez en el agua en un mundillo que conocen y aman, sin pagar, aparentemente, un peaje demasiado caro. Aun así, cíclicamente, Jim necesita desaparecer sin avisar a nadie, y Dave teme que alguna de esas veces sea la definitiva y todo acabe.En Un par de cómicos, Don Carpenter ?él mismo, al igual que John Fante, guionista además de novelista y gran conocedor de las bambalinas del negocio? plasma como nadie las luces y las sombras del mundo del espectáculo, sus fastos, sus costumbres, sus leyes propias, y nos habla, sin cinismo ni ingenuidad, y con un absorbente y ágil pulso narrativo, de la peculiar fauna que habita esta dorada Babilonia. Pero más allá de los focos y de las cámaras, de las drogas, el alcohol y las mujeres, la historia de Jim y Dave constituye, en última instancia, un homenaje a la amistad y al amor por el oficio.'La prosa de Carpenter es ágil, luminosa, tierna, divertida, triste? Un par de cómicos es la mejor novela que he leído sobre el mundo del espectáculo'. Norman Mailer
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Murder of the Frogs and Other Stories
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Bright Ideas: The Ins & Outs of Financing a College Education
Synopsis coming soon.......
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Hard Rain Falling
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The Hollywood Trilogy
A Couple of Comedians, The True Story of Jody McKeegan, and Turnaround€ 26,50 -
Fridays At Enrico's
Don Carpenter was one of the finest novelists working in the west. His first novel, A Hard Rain Falling, first published in 1966, has been championed by Richard Price, and George Pelacanos who called it "a masterpiece…the definitive juvenile–delinquency novel and a damning indictment of our criminal justice system," is considered a classic. His novel A Couple of Comedians is thought by some the best novel about Hollywood ever written.He was a close friend of Evan Connell and other San Francisco writers, but his closest friendship was with Richard Brautigan, and when Brautigan killed himself, Carpenter tried for some time to write a biography of his remarkable, deeply troubled friend.He finally abandoned that in favor of writing a novel. Friday's at Enricos, the story of four writers living in Northern California and Portland during the early, heady days of the Beat scene. A time of youth and opportunity, this story mixes the excitement of beginning with the melancholy of ambition, often thwarted and never satisfied. Loss of innocence is only the first price you pay. These are people, men and women, tender with expectation, at risk and in love, and Carpenter also carefully draws a portrait of these two remarkable places, San Francisco and Portland, in the 50s and early 60s, when the writers and bohemians were busy creating the groundwork for what came to be the counterculture.A great champion of Don Carpenter, Jonathan Lethem, has taken on the task of editing and developing this last draft into the shape we imagine Carpenter would have himself accomplished had he lived to see this through. And Lethem provides a wonderful introduction to this book, to Carpenter, and to the broad influence of his work which resonates until this very day.
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Pathway to Happiness
Pathway to Happiness was revealed 2000 years ago€ 5,95 -
Vrijdagen bij Enrico's
E-bookVrijdagen bij Enrico’s is het verhaal van een groep schrijvers uit San Francisco en Portland tijdens de vroege, onstuimige dagen van de Beat-scene – een tijd van dromen en onbegrensde mogelijkheden. We volgen auteur Charlie en zijn jonge vrouw Jaime, beiden laverend tussen de opwinding van beginnend schrijverschap en de melancholie van niet ingeloste ambities. Op vrijdagen spreken ze af in het kleine café Enrico’s met vrienden en andere aspirant-schrijvers. Soms praten ze over het schrijverschap, maar meestal drinken ze, halen ze herinneringen op of beledigen ze elkaar – het ultieme kenmerk van broederschap. Carpenter tekent een zorgvuldig en nostalgisch portret van San Francisco en Portland in de jaren ’50 en vroege jaren ’60; van schrijvers en bohemiens, van huwelijken en vrije liefde, van vriendschappen en onuitgesproken rivaliteit, van manuscripten die nooit gepubliceerd zullen worden en het onverwacht doorbreken als schrijver. Het manuscript van Vrijdagen bij Enrico’s was in de vergetelheid geraakt sinds de dood van de auteur, maar werd onlangs ontdekt en afgerond door Jonathan Lethem.
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