Eye of a Fly

ISBN-13: 9781460995105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 244 str.

Justin R. Smith

Opis

Short description: Raised by slum-dwelling alcoholics, an autistic teen struggles to complete college and woo a handicapped girl.

Longer description: "Eye of a Fly" is a novel of tragedy and redemption with a cast of characters that includes: Ernest Wentworth, a profoundly introverted boy who inhabits a world of mathematics and music. Tiffany, his innocent younger sister whose friends teach her voodoo. Warren, Ernest's talented but troubled younger brother whose suicide triggers the novel's finale. Harry, Ernest's father. A former Hollywood screen writer, he has always dreamed of drinking hard, seeing the world, and writing like Hemingway---but only succeeded at the first. Annie, a brain-damaged but radiant girl who draws Ernest out of his shell.