Journeyman: A Novel - Hardcover

Bojanowski, Marc

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1593766610 ISBN 13: 9781593766610

Verlag: Soft Skull, 2017

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"BuzzFeed UK" names "Journeyman" one of 31 brilliant books that you really must read this Spring along with new work from Alexander Chee, Curtis Sittenfeld, Toni Morrison, Garth Greenwell, and Maggie Nelson
Bojanowski s debut novel, "The Dog Fighter" (HarperCollins), was a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award
He has been reviewed or featured in "Buzzfeed," the "Los Angeles Times," " New York Times," and more
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BuzzFeed UK names Journeyman one of 31 brilliant books that you really must read this Spring along with new work from Alexander Chee, Curtis Sittenfeld, Toni Morrison, Garth Greenwell, and Maggie Nelson
Bojanowski s debut novel, The Dog Fighter (HarperCollins), was a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award
He has been reviewed or featured in Buzzfeed, the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and more
"

One of 31 Brilliant Books That you Really Must Read This Spring. Buzzfeed "Bojanowski's novel is layered and thoughtful." Kirkus A carpenter. An arsonist. A tortured writer. In this beautifully wrought novel, Marc Bojanowski stages a showdown between warring New Western masculinities, using the ghost town of California's tract architecture as backdrop. Angry, rootless, unquenchably romantic, haunted by wars fought and unfought, these lost men have come to tell us something urgent and true about a world they no longer understand. Jon Raymond, author of Freebird and Livability A rich but unrefined seam of allegorical meaningfulness [runs] through this pleasing tale. The Irish Times Bojanowski keeps it simple . . . his direct, unassuming style keeps the reader engaged in the ultimately optimistic story of Nolan s attempt to overcome the contradictions in his life. Herald Scotland "This spare, mesmerizing novel is realist fiction at its best. Journeyman reminds me of Russell Banks or Richard Ford, but is distinctive and fresh in its own right. Marc Bojanowski delivers contemporary but somehow timeless storytelling that unfolds effortlessly and before you know it an afternoon and evening has passed, you're near the novel's end, and wish you weren't." Joe McGinnis Jr, author of Carousel Court and The Delivery Man"

One of 31 Brilliant Books That you Really Must Read This Spring. Buzzfeed
"Bojanowski's novel is layered and thoughtful." Kirkus
A carpenter. An arsonist. A tortured writer. In this beautifully wrought novel, Marc Bojanowski stages a showdown between warring New Western masculinities, using the ghost town of California's tract architecture as backdrop. Angry, rootless, unquenchably romantic, haunted by wars fought and unfought, these lost men have come to tell us something urgent and true about a world they no longer understand. Jon Raymond, author of Freebird and Livability
A rich but unrefined seam of allegorical meaningfulness [runs] through this pleasing tale. The Irish Times
Bojanowski keeps it simple . . . his direct, unassuming style keeps the reader engaged in the ultimately optimistic story of Nolan s attempt to overcome the contradictions in his life. Herald Scotland"

"Journeyman is a textured, deceptively linear novel that throws some curves and carries a trace of Cormac McCarthy." --Booklist
One of "31 Brilliant Books That you Really Must Read This Spring." --Buzzfeed
"Bojanowski's novel is layered and thoughtful." --Kirkus
"A carpenter. An arsonist. A tortured writer. In this beautifully wrought novel, Marc Bojanowski stages a showdown between warring New Western masculinities, using the ghost town of California's tract architecture as backdrop. Angry, rootless, unquenchably romantic, haunted by wars fought and unfought, these lost men have come to tell us something urgent and true about a world they no longer understand." --Jon Raymond, author of Freebird and Livability
"A rich but unrefined seam of allegorical meaningfulness [runs] through this pleasing tale." --The Irish Times
"Bojanowski keeps it simple . . . his direct, unassuming style keeps the reader engaged in the ultimately optimistic story of Nolan's attempt to overcome the contradictions in his life." --Herald Scotland

---Bojanowski's writing shines in the vividness of his minor characters . . . The book abounds in sharp description--of landscape, the built environment, the play of light--from Nolan's point of view, illuminating the sensitive soul under the Western hat. The distance between that soul, attuned to beauty and craftsmanship, and the shell Nolan has created for himself is deeply felt throughout. Watching him close the distance is the novel's greatest pleasure. At one point, Nolan thinks: 'We maintain narratives, however false, to survive.' Journeyman profoundly traces the cost of hanging on to those narratives long after they've ceased to be beneficial.-- --The New York Times Book Review- -Journeyman is a textured, deceptively linear novel that throws some curves and carries a trace of Cormac McCarthy.- --Booklist
One of -31 Brilliant Books That you Really Must Read This Spring.- --Buzzfeed
-Bojanowski's novel is layered and thoughtful.- --Kirkus
-A carpenter. An arsonist. A tortured writer. In this beautifully wrought novel, Marc Bojanowski stages a showdown between warring New Western masculinities, using the ghost town of California's tract architecture as backdrop. Angry, rootless, unquenchably romantic, haunted by wars fought and unfought, these lost men have come to tell us something urgent and true about a world they no longer understand.- --Jon Raymond, author of Freebird and Livability
-A rich but unrefined seam of allegorical meaningfulness [runs] through this pleasing tale.- --The Irish Times
-Bojanowski keeps it simple . . . his direct, unassuming style keeps the reader engaged in the ultimately optimistic story of Nolan's attempt to overcome the contradictions in his life.- --Herald Scotland

"""Bojanowski's writing shines in the vividness of his minor characters . . . The book abounds in sharp description--of landscape, the built environment, the play of light--from Nolan's point of view, illuminating the sensitive soul under the Western hat. The distance between that soul, attuned to beauty and craftsmanship, and the shell Nolan has created for himself is deeply felt throughout. Watching him close the distance is the novel's greatest pleasure. At one point, Nolan thinks: 'We maintain narratives, however false, to survive.' Journeyman profoundly traces the cost of hanging on to those narratives long after they've ceased to be beneficial."" --The New York Times Book Review" "Journeyman is a textured, deceptively linear novel that throws some curves and carries a trace of Cormac McCarthy." --Booklist

One of "31 Brilliant Books That you Really Must Read This Spring." --Buzzfeed

"Bojanowski's novel is layered and thoughtful." --Kirkus

"A carpenter. An arsonist. A tortured writer. In this beautifully wrought novel, Marc Bojanowski stages a showdown between warring New Western masculinities, using the ghost town of California's tract architecture as backdrop. Angry, rootless, unquenchably romantic, haunted by wars fought and unfought, these lost men have come to tell us something urgent and true about a world they no longer understand." --Jon Raymond, author of Freebird and Livability

"A rich but unrefined seam of allegorical meaningfulness [runs] through this pleasing tale." --The Irish Times

"Bojanowski keeps it simple . . . his direct, unassuming style keeps the reader engaged in the ultimately optimistic story of Nolan's attempt to overcome the contradictions in his life." --Herald Scotland

Reseña del editor

From the author of The Dogfighter, hailed by Geoff Dyer as the most exciting debut by an American writer since Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides,” comes Journeyman, a tightly wound novel about dwelling, building, belonging, love, and the value of a place to call home. Nolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and a wanderer by nature. Set in 2007, while fellow Americans fight in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Nolan builds tract homes across California, travelling between jobs. Following a shocking workplace accident in his temporary home of Las Vegas, he uproots himself from the tentative relationships he has made and heads west towards the ocean.

On his way he passes through his brother's town where circumstances force him to stay put. Bereft of his trailer and his tools, Nolan turns to the task of building the foundations of a meaningful life. The specter of war and questions of the Western-film notions of masculinity are woven throughout the novel; from the damage to Nolan’s family by the Vietnam War in which his father fought, to the ubiquity and consequence of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to slow unraveling of his brother’s marriage and mental state, to the mysterious series of arsons being set around their small town.

Ultimately, Journeyman is an important, timely novel about men and brothers finding their way in the 21st century West.

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• Verlag: Soft Skull
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1593766610
• ISBN 13: 9781593766610
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224