Hume's Fork: A Novel - Hardcover

Cooper, Ron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1890862509 ISBN 13: 9781890862503

Verlag: Bancroft Press, 2007

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Book by Ron Cooper

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?Reading Hume's Fork is like having a conversation with John Kennedy Toole, Pat Conroy, and Noam Chomsky all at once?and what is positively brilliant about Ron Cooper's debut novel is that this works so seamlessly. Cooper's dialogue is comic satire at its finest while striking a chord at the universal themes of life."

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"Barely adequate philosophy professor Legare Hume has a mind-body problem. No matter how far he goes, no matter how hard he thinks, he can't escape the world he lives in. On the run from his wife Tally, Legare joins brilliant but exceptionally awkward colleague Saul Grossman to attend the American Philosophical Association’s Charleston, South Carolina conference, where worlds and walks of life collide in a strange and satirical amalgamation that can only be described as reality.Legare’s mission is simple enough: put up with the conference, read a paper he never thought anyone would want to hear, receive the tenure he isn't sure he wants, and return, or not, to the wife who nearly killed him before he left. But his plans are hijacked by a botched hotel reservation and the all-too-convenient presence of the Southern family Legare has worked very hard all his adult life to avoid.Hume’s Fork is a brilliantly satirical and philosophical novel, every bit as funny as it is intelligent—a true original. Legare’s conflict—Hume’s fork, if you will— becomes the reader’s, for all worlds are one, and nothing can truly be separate from everything else."

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• Verlag: Bancroft Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1890862509
• ISBN 13: 9781890862503
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258