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Inflating a Dog (Trade Paperback)

Autor Eric Kraft
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 sep 2012
Peter Leroy struggles to win the affections of the toothsome Patti Fiorenza while keeping his mother's hopes and his mother's boat afloat. Ella Leroy dreams of escaping the dreary routine of her 1950s wife-and-mom life. Without telling her husband, she enlists her son Peter and his locally-notorious girlfriend Patti in a scheme to buy a run-down clamboat and re-invent it as an elegant cruising vessel for summer people in the bayside town of Babbington, Long Island. But after they've bought the boat, Peter discovers that it is slowly sinking. Raucous, wise, and great fun, this is simply not to be missed. Nancy Pearl, Booklist The secret dreams and yearnings of a soul in the making, a fool for beauty. Frederic Koeppel, Memphis Commercial Appeal Fascinating and sophisticated. Jennifer Reese, The New York Times Book Review The best description of sex appeal anywhere, ever. Peter Jon Shuler
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781300145530
ISBN-10: 1300145536
Pagini: 242
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Lulu

Notă biografică

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Eric Kraft grew up in Babylon, New York, on the South Shore of Long Island, where he was for a time co-owner and co-captain of a clam boat, which sank.

He met or invented the character Peter Leroy while dozing over a German lesson during his first year at Harvard.
The following year, he married his muse, Madeline Canning; they have two sons.

After earning a Master's Degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Kraft taught school in the Boston area for a while, moonlighting as a rock music critic for the Boston Phoenix.

Since then, he has spent a part of every day writing the voluminous work of fiction that he calls The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy.

It has received widespread critical acclaim in the United States and internationally.

Three of the volumes were named New York Times Notable Books of the Year.

Kraft has been the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts; was, briefly, chairman of PEN New England; and has been awarded the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature.