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1947. La fortuna cade letteralmente dal cielo per Arthur Wise, piccolo avvocato ebreo di provincia, sotto forma di un aereo della Boston Airways che precipita nel mare del New England: Wise dà il via a una class action vittoriosa che farà di lui il terrore delle compagnie aeree di linea, e un uomo ricchissimo. Compera una magnifica tenuta a Cape Cod, con due case, una per sé, la moglie e il figlio Hilly, l’altra per l’amico e socio Robert Ashley; due case che diventano teatro di eventi imprevedibili quanto drammatici. Stuart Nadler riprende qui i temi cari alla letteratura americana: la fortuna improvvisa, le cause legali collettive, l’amicizia maschile, l’amore interrazziale, l’impulsività giovanile, la vendetta, i contrasti tra padre e figlio, la prepotenza del denaro, perfino il baseball... Il finale, assolutamente a sorpresa, riallaccia i nodi di vicende fino a quel momento misteriose, svelando segreti a lungo conservati.
- ISBN: 8833972666
- Casa Editrice: Bollati Boringhieri
- Pagine: 352
- Data di uscita: 05-09-2013
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There are literary places. A geographical conjunction of human and social factors able to create the drama. It was for Proust Cabourg and the Grand Hôtel. Cap Code belongs to this places. US aristocracy meet between here. This human society has its own codes and rituals. They live protected in magni Leggi tutto
I love first novels. So much promise and such a thrill when a first-time author has written a really good book. Stuart Nadler has written a first novel and it's a really, really good book: Wise Men. The story begins in a fictional Cape Cod town located between Wellfleet and Truro where Art Wise has b Leggi tutto
This book was such a disappointment. It was selected based on the interesting description but sadly the story itself did not live up to the book jacket. I don't think this is a story about fathers and sons at all, nor is it about racial violence. There is a father and a son in the story; and racial
In the spring of 1947 a passenger plane, owned by Boston Airways, crashed near Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Fifty-six people died in the crash, thirteen of them children. Arthur Wise, a New Haven based “slip-and-fall-and-sue attorney” happened to be connected to one of the passengers on the fated Leggi tutto
This book is written by someone who is a product of the Iowa Writer's Workshop so it is no surprise that it was a very good book. Also Iowa has a bit part. Mostly the story is about a father and son and their relationship as well as the way the times they are living in shape them. The 1950s through
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