King: A Street Story - Hardcover

Berger, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375405569 ISBN 13: 9780375405563

Verlag: Pantheon Books, 1999

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Book by Berger John

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A streetwise canine who lives with a vagrant couple, Vica and Vico, describes life in a homeless community, in which its inhabitants rely on one another for both physical sustenance and emotional preservation, until a fatal attack on the community forever alters all their lives

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In this book you will be led to a place you haven't been, from where few stories come. You will be led by King, a dog--or is he a dog?--to a wasteland beside the highway called Saint Valéry. Here, at the end of the twentieth century, among smashed trucks, old boilers, and broken washing machines, live Liberto, Malak, Jack, Corinna, Danny, Anna, Joachim, Saul, Alfonso, and Vico and Vica.

Listen to King's voice as he tells a different kind of story: twenty-four hours pass and lives are lived. It is good to have survived another winter, for now it is spring, when the nights, though cold, are no longer harsh enough to kill. The wet season is over, and with it the hopelessness of damp. Today the sun will shine: of what else will the day be made?

King is at once a furious homage to the homeless and a lyrical meditation on language and experience. The bitter yet celebratory prose speaks to us all.

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• Verlag: Pantheon Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375405569
• ISBN 13: 9780375405563
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 189