All Joe Knight: A Novel
Autor Kevin Morrisen Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 dec 2016
A prominent figure in the entertainment world who has turned to fiction in the last decade, Kevin Morris received wide literary acclaim with his story collection White Man’s Problems, praised by David Carr as “remarkable” and Tom Perrotta as “revelatory.” Now Morris cements his place as a bold new voice in American literature with his muscular debut novel, All Joe Knight.
1961. Outside Philadelphia, a soon-to-be father runs into a telephone pole while driving drunk; nine months later, his widow dies in a smashed up T-Bird. From the start, the orphaned Joe Knight is a blank slate. Taken in by a kindly aunt in a tough-skinned suburb, Joe finds his family in high school with the Fallcrest basketball team—the kind of team that comes around once in a lifetime. White guys, black guys, speed, height, raw athleticism, every element is perfectly in synch. All these kids want, all they dream of, is to make it to the Palestra, UPenn’s cathedral of college basketball.
Fast-forward thirty years. Joe is newly divorced with one kid and certain he is unfit for love. Ever since selling the ad firm he built from the ground up for millions, he’s had time on his hands, and now he wiles it away in strip clubs, the only place where he can quiet his mind. But then he hears from Chris Scully, a former Fallcrest teammate who is now District Attorney. It seems the Justice Department is sniffing around the deal that got Joe rich years ago—a deal he cut every member of the basketball team into, except for Scully. As the details about Joe’s possible transgression are unreeled, he is forced to face the emptiness inside himself and a secret that has haunted him for decades.
1961. Outside Philadelphia, a soon-to-be father runs into a telephone pole while driving drunk; nine months later, his widow dies in a smashed up T-Bird. From the start, the orphaned Joe Knight is a blank slate. Taken in by a kindly aunt in a tough-skinned suburb, Joe finds his family in high school with the Fallcrest basketball team—the kind of team that comes around once in a lifetime. White guys, black guys, speed, height, raw athleticism, every element is perfectly in synch. All these kids want, all they dream of, is to make it to the Palestra, UPenn’s cathedral of college basketball.
Fast-forward thirty years. Joe is newly divorced with one kid and certain he is unfit for love. Ever since selling the ad firm he built from the ground up for millions, he’s had time on his hands, and now he wiles it away in strip clubs, the only place where he can quiet his mind. But then he hears from Chris Scully, a former Fallcrest teammate who is now District Attorney. It seems the Justice Department is sniffing around the deal that got Joe rich years ago—a deal he cut every member of the basketball team into, except for Scully. As the details about Joe’s possible transgression are unreeled, he is forced to face the emptiness inside himself and a secret that has haunted him for decades.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780802125781
ISBN-10: 0802125786
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Grove Atlantic
Colecția Grove Press
ISBN-10: 0802125786
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Grove Atlantic
Colecția Grove Press
Recenzii
Praise for White Man's Problems:
"Remarkable. A brightly lit noir about the scariness of getting what you want. Anybody who has ever had the 'Now What’s?' should read that book."—David Carr, New York Times
"Kevin Morris is that rare writer who bridges the class divide, illuminating the lives of working class characters and affluent professionals with equal authenticity and insight. White Man's Problems is a revelatory collection that marks the arrival of striking new voice in American fiction."—Tom Perrotta
“The echoes here are of a former generation of American writers—John Cheever, John Updike, Raymond Carver . . . deathless prose that might make you weep.”—USA Today
“Morris, an entertainment lawyer by trade, offers up shrewd, bitingly funny commentary on his own privileged class.”—TIME
"Wonderful group of stories by Kevin Morris. Lyrical and honest in its look at modern American life. Buy this and you will love it."—Gus Van Sant
"Life undermines the pursuit of success and status in these rich, bewildering stories . . . a finely wrought and mordantly funny take on a modern predicament by a new writer with loads of talent."—Kirkus Reviews
"These brutal and heartfelt stories will knock you out."—Jim Gavin, author of Middle Men
"Kevin Morris’s voice is Updike and Cheever and Carver."—Eric Roth, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Forrest Gump
"These clear-eyed morality tales showcase lightheartedness and angst in equal measure . . . Morris’s themes are universal in scope.”—Foreword Reviews
"Remarkable. A brightly lit noir about the scariness of getting what you want. Anybody who has ever had the 'Now What’s?' should read that book."—David Carr, New York Times
"Kevin Morris is that rare writer who bridges the class divide, illuminating the lives of working class characters and affluent professionals with equal authenticity and insight. White Man's Problems is a revelatory collection that marks the arrival of striking new voice in American fiction."—Tom Perrotta
“The echoes here are of a former generation of American writers—John Cheever, John Updike, Raymond Carver . . . deathless prose that might make you weep.”—USA Today
“Morris, an entertainment lawyer by trade, offers up shrewd, bitingly funny commentary on his own privileged class.”—TIME
"Wonderful group of stories by Kevin Morris. Lyrical and honest in its look at modern American life. Buy this and you will love it."—Gus Van Sant
"Life undermines the pursuit of success and status in these rich, bewildering stories . . . a finely wrought and mordantly funny take on a modern predicament by a new writer with loads of talent."—Kirkus Reviews
"These brutal and heartfelt stories will knock you out."—Jim Gavin, author of Middle Men
"Kevin Morris’s voice is Updike and Cheever and Carver."—Eric Roth, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Forrest Gump
"These clear-eyed morality tales showcase lightheartedness and angst in equal measure . . . Morris’s themes are universal in scope.”—Foreword Reviews
Notă biografică
Kevin Morris is the author of the acclaimed story collection White Man's Problems and has written for the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Filmmaker Magazine. He produced the highly regarded documentary Hands on a Hardbody and was a co-producer and Tony Award winner for The Book of Mormon. He lives in Los Angeles.