King: a street story
β Scribed by John Berger
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
- Year
- 2012;2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 84 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1299047661
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β¦ Synopsis
In this book you will be led to a place you haven't been, from where few stories come. You will be led by King, a dog--or is he a dog?--to a wasteland beside the highway called Saint ValΓ©ry. Here, at the end of the twentieth century, among smashed trucks, old boilers, and broken washing machines, live Liberto, Malak, Jack, Corinna, Danny, Anna, Joachim, Saul, Alfonso, and Vico and Vica.
Listen to King's voice as he tells a different kind of story: twenty-four hours pass and lives are lived. It is good to have survived another winter, for now it is spring, when the nights, though cold, are no longer harsh enough to kill. The wet season is over, and with it the hopelessness of damp. Today the sun will shine: of what else will the day be made?
King is at once a furious homage to the homeless and a lyrical meditation on language and experience. The bitter yet celebratory prose speaks to us all.
From the Hardcover edition.
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West Gallo is not a good man. Having risen up from the gutter, he is undefeated and cruel, and no one can take his crown. They are all under his rule, and he is the king--until one chance meeting changes his world forever. Hannah Ray breaks through his ice, and there's no way he can let anyone else
West Gallo is not a good man. Having risen up from the gutter, he is undefeated and cruel, and no one can take his crown. They are all under his rule, and he is the king--until one chance meeting changes his world forever. Hannah Ray breaks through his ice, and there's no way he can let anyone else