Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?

✍ Scribed by Harstad, Johan

• Book ID: 108828345
• Publisher: SEVEN STORIES PRESS
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781609803339

✦ Synopsis

Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? opens with the line: "e;The person you love is 72.8% water, and it hasnt rained for weeks."e; From there, Brage Awardwinning author and playwright Johan Harstads debutpreviously published to great success in eleven countries and now making its first English-language appearancetells the story of Mattias, a thirty-something gardener living in Stavanger, Norway, whose idol is Buzz Aldrin, second man on the moon: the man who was willing to stand in Neil Armstrongs shadow in order to work, diligently and humbly, for the success of the Apollo 11 mission. Following a series of personal and professional disasters, Mattias finds himself lying on a rain-soaked road in the desolate, treeless Faroe Islands, population only a few thousand, a wad of bills in his pocket and no memory of how he had come to be therethats when a truck approaches him, driven by a troubled, fantastic man with an offer that will shortly change Mattiass life. And so, surrounded by a vivid and memorable cast of charactersaspiring pop musicians, Caribbean-obsessed psychologists, death-haunted photographers, girls who dream of anonymous men falling in love with them on bus trips, and even Buzz Aldrin himselflaunches Buzz Aldrin, What Happened To You In All The Confusion?, the epic story of Mattiass pop-saturated odyssey through the world of unconventional psychiatry, souvenir sheep-making, the Cardigans, and space: the space between himself and other people, a journey maybe as remote and personally dangerous as the trip to the moon itself.