Homer in Flight - Softcover

Maharaj, Rabindranath

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0864922205 ISBN 13: 9780864922205

Verlag: Goose Lane Editions, 1997

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Hilarious and poignant, Homer in Flight draws a brilliant picture of a chronic malcontent roving from high-rise to housing development along the 401 and the QEW. Homer remains utterly displaced, not because of what other people do or don't do, but because he lives in his imagination instead of embracing an imperfect but fairly benign reality.

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Rabindranath Maharaj, a Trinidadian teacher and journalist, wrote several of the stories in the Interloper during the year he spent in Fredericton. He now writes and teaches in Toronto.

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"Run, you little bitch, run. You could run as far as you want, you can' escape." His uncle's words ring in Homer Santokie's ears as his plane gains altitude and Trinidad falls away below. He has escaped. His destination: Toronto. Homer trades a basement in Ajax for a Dixie high rise, a factory job for a position as a Hamilton school librarian. Marrying Vashti and moving into her sister's house in Burlington, becoming a father, publishing his book -- these successes should win Homer peace and security. But he craves more.

Hilarious and poignant, Homer in Flight draws a brilliant picture of a man evading one imaginary crisis after another. Homer veers from bravery to bravado, from jollity to gut-wrenching anxiety and confusion. Articulate and annoyed, he wrestles mightily with the benign reality of his new life.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Goose Lane Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0864922205
• ISBN 13: 9780864922205
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 323
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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