Fade Out - Softcover

Woolf, Doug

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0876859872 ISBN 13: 9780876859872

Verlag: Black Sparrow Press,U.S., 2011

Inhaltsangabe

First published in 1959, Fade Out is a stunning, surreal criticism of American life in the materialistic, youth-and money-crazed 1950s. Its hero is Dick Twombley, a 74-year old retired bank clerk who struggles to retain what remains of his dignity in a world that regards old age as an embarrassment. When he is mistakenly accused of kidnapping two little girls he has befriended, Dick’s daughter packs him off to a suburban New York City retirement home. He soon makes his escape with the help of a fellow inmate, and together the two “fugitives from injustice” embark on a cross-country odyssey that lands them in the abandoned hotel of an Arizona ghost town.

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Biografía del autor

Woolf was well-respected throughout his career and created some of the most startlingly original works of the twentieth century. At the time of his death in 1992, he had published 10 novels and collections of short stories.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Black Sparrow Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0876859872
• ISBN 13: 9780876859872
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 275
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