Thomas Rogers

Jerry Engels (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The raucously sweet sequel to At the Shores Jerry Engels is in his junior year at Penn State. He lives with his fraternity brothers, flunks his classes, lifts weights, and thinks about women-constantly. Insatiable, Jerry devours the Kinsey Report in full, and sets out to test its findings wherever possible, grilling his brothers on their homosexual experiences, getting crabs from a prostitute, posing in the nude for art classes, and romancing a good friend's little sister. Yet Jerry is not a rake but a carnal saint, delighting in life in a careless, grateful manner. When Jerry does find love, this remarkable comic novel of lust becomes a romance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781480449831
• Artikelnr.: 44664019

Autorenporträt

Thomas Rogers (1927-2007) was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was the author of four novels, including the National Book Award finalists The Pursuit of Happinessand The Confession of a Child of the Century by Samuel Heather. His third novel is At the Shores, and his final work, Jerry Engels, is its sequel. David Susskind produced a film based on The Pursuit of Happinessstarring Barbara Hershey and Michael Sarrazin. Rogers graduated cum laude from Harvard University and received his doctorate from the University of Iowa in the program that is now the Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 1969, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was a frequent guest at Yaddo and the Camargo Foundation.He had essays published in the American Review, Esquire, the Iowa Review, and the American Scholar. He taught creative writing at Pennsylvania State University for three decades as a professor of English and fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies.