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Balladeer of the city's broken and forgotten men, Joseph G. Peterson looks for inspiration in urban side streets and alleys, where crooked schemes are hatched, where lives end violently, and where pretty much everyone is up to no good. Depicting the lives of people who have woefully lost their way in the world - criminals and victims, the unemployed and unemployable, the neglected and the indigent, the lonely and the alone - Peterson nonetheless brings a poet's touch to his work, redolent with allegory, allusion, and Nabokovian wordplay. His last novel, "Beautiful Piece", garnered praise from across the literary spectrum. "Enter Wanted: Elevator Man", his powerful and ambitious new novel and the story of Eliot Barnes Jr., a man at the end of his proverbial rope. Haunted by the larger-than-life shadow of his father, a scientist who may have helped develop the atomic bomb, twenty-nine-year-old Eliot Barnes Jr., is an apple that's fallen far from the tree. Saddled with a useless degree in literature, caged in a rundown apartment he can't afford, and embittered by his failure to live up to the future's promise, Barnes, who dreams of a corner office - an aerie high above the city, working with the higher-ups - begrudgingly accepts a job as an elevator man in a downtown Chicago skyscraper. Thus begins a profound but comedic meditation on failure in this life, how one comes to terms with not achieving one's dreams, the nature and origin of such dreams, and, fittingly, the meaning of the American dream itself. As unflinching as Nelson Algren and as romantic as Saul Bellow, Peterson's novel boasts wildly surreal plot twists and a lethal wit that frequently erupts into full-on hilarity. "Wanted: Elevator Man" is the perfect tale for learning to cope with diminished expectations in these dark and desperate times.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Plný název: Wanted: Elevator Man
• Autor: Joseph G. Peterson
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 188
• EAN: 9780875806778
• ISBN: 0875806775
• ID: 04750389
• Nakladatelství: Cornell University Press
• Hmotnost: 217 g
• Rozměry: 203 × 127 × 14 mm
• Datum vydání: 11. May 2012

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