Ross Barkan

Colossus

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A stark and unsettling portrait of success, in the vein of Philip Roth and Jonathan Franzen, that revives the long-established intersection between ambition and corruption in the pursuit of the American dream. Teddy Starr has it all. A beloved pastor in a small Midwestern town, a devoted husband and father of three, and a rising real estate magnate, he has built a life that gleams with virtue and success. Self-made in every sense, Teddy is a man of conviction, or at least it seems. But behind the pulpit and the polished smile lies a fractured past, and when a figure from that buried life reemerges, the once-sturdy walls of his world begin to fall. As scandal and ambition collide, Colossus becomes the story of American hunger for reinvention and the blatant self-interest beneath its surface. Written with the moral gravity of Robert Penn Warren and the psychological insight of Philip Roth, Ross Barkan offers a timely update on the examination of the American identity in an age of performance and decay.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcade Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2026
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781648211775
• ISBN-10: 1648211771
• Artikelnr.: 74857774

Autorenporträt

Ross Barkan is the author of five books, including the novel Glass Century . He's a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, a columnist for New York Magazine, and the editor-in-chief of The Metropolitan Review, a books and culture review publication.