โ Heather Atkinson
๐ Fiction
๐
2019
๐ English
โ 162 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Journeyman
โ Scribed by Marc Bojanowski
- Publisher
- Soft Skull Press
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 132 KB
- Edition
- Soft Skull Press edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1593766688
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โฆ Synopsis
From the author of The Dogfighter, hailed by Geoff Dyer as "the most exciting debut...by an American writer since Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides," comes Journeyman, a tightly wound novel about dwelling, building, belonging, love, and the value of a place to call home. Nolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and a wanderer by nature. Set in 2007, while fellow Americans fight in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Nolan builds tract homes across California, travelling between jobs. Following a shocking workplace accident in his temporary home of Las Vegas, he uproots himself from the tentative relationships he has made and heads west towards the ocean.
On his way he passes through his brother's town where circumstances force him to stay put. Bereft of his trailer and his tools, Nolan turns to the task of building the foundations of a meaningful life. The specter of war and questions of the Western-film notions of masculinity are woven throughout the novel; from the...
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