God of Speed - Softcover

Davies, Luke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1940207274 ISBN 13: 9781940207278

Verlag: Rare Bird Books, 2014

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..".God Of Speed cements Davies where he deserves to be, among the very top echelon of our novelists." --Sydney Morning Herald

Reseña del editor

"I will fly at last. I will unfold my wings. I will unpack my head. I will step back outside. One day I may even make love again. But one thing at a time. Let's not get ahead of ourselves." Film mogul, aviator, addict, inventor, visionary, recluse, serial womanizer, political meddler: Howard Hughes was one of the strangest and most significant figures of the twentieth century. His obsessive-compulsive disorder would end up crippling and isolating him; in the end he self-medicated his way into oblivion. It's a summer night in 1973, and holed up in his hotel penthouse in London, Hughes can't sleep. Tomorrow he takes control of an airplane for the first time in more than fifteen years. As the reclusive, drug-addled billionaire waits for dawn, the shape and preoccupations of the times emerge from his ruined psyche; a world of oil, flight, money, movies, drugs, sex, power, greed, fear, and yearning for America. Blackly funny, muscular and rhythmic, transcendent and debauched, God of Speed is a fever dream, a giant and extraordinary leap of the imagination into the fractured mind of a man who was both great and greatly fallen.

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• Verlag: Rare Bird Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1940207274
• ISBN 13: 9781940207278
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 275