Zafris, Nancy Lucky Strike ISBN 13: 9781932961041

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9781932961041: Lucky Strike
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"Zafris's dry sense of humor runs through the story, a counterpoint to the poignancy of Charlie's illness, the desperation of the uranium seekers, and the not-yet-understood danger of radiation poisoning. The sinister, thrilling mushroom cloud of the bomb casts its shadow over everything. 'Lucky Strike" is a quirky novel that rewards careful reading."--The Boston Globe "What a wild ride this book is. The characters are plucky, sympathetic, and memorable, the situations sometimes laugh-out-loud funny and sometimes bittersweet, and the pacing just right. Zafris is a keen observer of the human comedy."--LIBRARY JOURNAL, STARRED "Comic and darkly ironic."--Southwest Book Views "Likable and thought-provoking...another winner."--THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER "Laced with quiet tongue-in-cheek humor and told from multiple viewpoints, the adventures of this quirky cast of characters makes for a warmhearted, entertaining read."--THE DENVER POST "Funny and touching."--PAGES MAGAZINE "Zafris' writing lets emotions and memories penetrate each other the way they do in ordinary thought, though seldom in fiction. Sometimes you have to go back and see what's really being said...Yet each of Zafris' sentences is as sharp-edged as a miner's pick, and to have to reread one occasionally is a pleasure."--FORT LAUDERDALE SUN-SENTINEL "All learn that love and friendship endure beyond fortune. In Zafris' disturbing and ironic novel, the universe operates under skies where the laws of atomic energy are highly visible...[the ending] haunts long after the reader puts the book down."--THE OREGONIAN "Eerie...[a] noir-tinged adventure story...One could read Lucky Strike as a historical portrait of a time and place. All the realistic details, though, reverberate with unsettling implications. The characters don't know how poisonous their environment is, but readers know -- and dread the future effects on the characters of the uranium they long to find."--THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH "The strength of Lucky Strike is thanks in part to its quirky cast of characters... These characters...come together in an age of innocence, before humans fully understood the effects of radiation. They pool their strengths and offset each other's weaknesses as they work towards the common goal of hitting a lucky strike...This was a book of many fascinating layers...I cared about the characters and their individual fates. That's what good writing is all about."--MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW "Her gift is blending unique characters with vivid settings."--The Winston-Salem Journal
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Spanning western Europe from 1875 to 1917 and presenting a gothic historical Paris that subverts our old assumptions regarding the City of Light, M. Allen Cunningham's new novel brings a brooding atmosphere and human complexity to an intimate and imaginative portrait of one of the most uniquely sensitive artists of his time, a poet whose odd childhood and difficult early life will both fascinate and perhaps help explain his determination to stay true to his artistic vision at almost any cost. Here is Rainer Maria Rilke in the grip of his greatest artistic struggle: life itself. Rilke's gripping emotional drama as child, lover, husband, father, protege, misfit soldier, and wanderer is framed by a haunted young figure, a researcher who, a century later, feels compelled to trace Rilke's itinerant footsteps and those of Rilke's fictional alter ego, the bewitched poet Malte Laurids Brigge. The result is an exploration of the forever imperfect loyalties we face in work and life, the seemingly immeasurable distances that can separate life and art, and the generational tensions between masters and admirers.

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  • VerlagUnbridled Books
  • Erscheinungsdatum2005
  • ISBN 10 1932961046
  • ISBN 13 9781932961041
  • EinbandTapa dura
  • Anzahl der Seiten336
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