Charles Baxter

Blood Test

A Comedy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"In this ... take on love and trouble in the American heartland, Brock Hobson, an insurance salesman and Sunday School teacher, finds his equilibrium disturbed by the results of a blood test. [The author] brings us a gradually building rollercoaster narrative, and a protagonist who is impertinent, searching, and hilariously relatable. From his good-as-gold, gentle girlfriend to the excessively macho subcontractor guy his ex-wife left him for, not to mention his well-raised teenage kids--now exploring sex and sexuality--the secondary characters in Brock's life all contribute meaningfully to the drama, as increasing challenges to his sense of self and purpose crash over him"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 145mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780593700853
• ISBN-10: 0593700856
• Artikelnr.: 70010251

Autorenporträt

CHARLES BAXTER is the author of the novels The Feast of Love (nominated for the National Book Award), First Light, Saul and Patsy, Shadow Play, The Soul Thief, and The Sun Collective and the story collections Believers, Gryphon, Harmony of the World, A Relative Stranger, There's Something I Want You to Do, and Through the Safety Net. His stories have been included several times in The Best American Short Stories. Baxter lives in Minneapolis.