Lost in the CityIm Labyrinth der Stadt, englische Ausgabe
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The nation's capital that serves as the setting for the stories in Edward P. Jones's prizewinning collection, Lost in the City, lies far from the city of historic monuments and national politicians. Jones takes the reader beyond that world into the lives of African American men and women who work against the constant threat of loss to maintain a sense of hope. From "The Girl Who Raised Pigeons" to the well-to-do career woman awakened in the night by a phone call that will take her on a journey back to the past, the characters in these stories forge bonds of community as they struggle against the limits of their city to stave off the loss of family, friends, memories, and, ultimately, themselves. Critically acclaimed upon publication, Lost in the City introduced Jones as an undeniable talent, a writer whose unaffected style is not only evocative and forceful but also filled with insight and poignancy.

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Das Buch ist in einem sauberen Zustand, ohne Gerüche, Flecken oder Beschädigungen. Auf den inneren Umschlagseiten dieses aus den USA erhaltenen Buches und auf er Titelseite wurden jedoch Aufkleber und Stempel von Bibliotheken und Organisationen aus Übersee angebracht. Diese sind nicht störend und geben dem Buch sogar eine zusätzliche interessante Komponente. Zum Inhalt: 14 Geschichten des Bestseller-Autors von "The Known World" über afro-amerikanische Einwohner von Washington im Zeitraum 50iger bis 80iger Jahre. Der Leser wird die Charaktere der Geschichten noch lange in Erinnerung behalten, Jones gelingt es meisterhaft, Einblicke in den Alltag zu geben und dem Leser jede der handelnden Personen nahe zu bringen. From Publishers WeeklyYoung and old struggle for spiritual survival against the often crushing obstacles of the inner city in these 14 moving stories of African American life in Washington, D.C. Traveling street by street through the nation's capital, Jones introduces a wide range of characters, each of whom has a distinct way of keeping the faith. Betsy Ann Morgan, "The Girl Who Raised Pigeons," finds inspiration in the birds she cares for on the roof of her apartment building. Middle-aged Vivian Slater leads a hymn-singing group in "Gospel." The narrator of "The Store" labors to build up a neighborhood grocery in "His Mother's House," Joyce Moses collects photographs and cares for the expensive home her young son has bought her with his crack earnings. Depicting characters who strive to preserve fragile bonds of family and community in a violent, tragic world, Jones writes knowingly of their nontraditional ways of caring for one another and themselves. His insightful portraits of young people and frank, unsensationalized depictions of horrifying social ills make this a poignant and promising first effort. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.From Kirkus ReviewsAt once folksy and urbane, this debut collection of stories pulses with the lifeblood of the forgotten neighborhoods of Washington, D.C., where Jones's black people are less the victims of society than of fate and chance. What unites the multihued African-Americans here is their sense of loss, whether it's of a family member taken in casual violence, or of one's soul, lost to drugs or ambition. A parentless teenager in The Night Rhonda Ferguson Was Killed,'' a girl full of confidence and spunk, finds her world shattered by her best friend's senseless death. Similarly, a middle-class man, leading a civilized life'' in the city, is devastated when his 15-year- old daughter runs away from home, never to return (A New Man''). A motherless girl fills the void in her life with pigeons, until they too die or abandon the dying neighborhood (The Girl Who Raised Pigeons''). Jones's unsparing view encompasses the hustler of Young Lions,'' a petty crook who enlists his loving girlfriend in a cruel scam the middle-aged mother in His Mother's House,'' who ignores the source of her drug-dealing son's beneficence and the high-powered lawyer in the title piece, who anesthetizes herself from her past with cocaine and passionless ***. But there's struggle, uplift, and survival in adversity here as well. In The Store,'' an unambitious young man grumbles through menial jobs, until he ends up attending Georgetown, in spite of himself. A dignified divorced woman keeps her family together in An Orange Line Train to Ballston.'' And a grown-up brother and sister cope differently with their father, who has spent most of their lives in jail for murdering their mother (The Sunday Following Mother's Day''). Jones unerringly captures the quiet stateliness of elderly women in a trio of stories, culminating in Marie,'' which is his most self-reflexive piece. A skillful, elegiac collection, with remarkably little sociology. -- Copyright 1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels. Taschenbuch.

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