Kerrigan in Copenhagen

ISBN-13: 9781408841969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str.

Thomas E. Kennedy

Opis

Kerrigan is writing a guidebook to the city of Copenhagen. Specifically, a guide to the city's drinking establishments - of which there are over 1,500. Thus, it is a project potentially without end, and one with a certain amount of drunken numbness built into it. And that's the point: for Kerrigan, an American expat fleeing a terrible betrayal, has plenty he wants to forget. The only problem with his proposed project is his research associate, a voluptuous, green-eyed beauty who makes him tremble with forgotten desire. Kerrigan in Copenhagen is both a love story and a Joycean romp through a magical city.

Recenzje

The essay, the guidebook, the love story, the comforting exchange of facts in a bewildering world of emotion - all are to be found in Thomas E. Kennedy's Kerrigan in Copenhagen ... A spiralling exploration of alcohol, history, literature, art and jazz - and Kerrigan's wounded psyche ... Undeniably smart, not least because it records the formation of a not-so-smart book. Coarse language plays off lyrical images and often stunning prose that twirls with the improvisations of the jazz musicians Kerrigan admires. It's a swirl of dichotomies ... The quest for precision - perhaps an end to improvisation - drives the novel's literally breathless second half ... Take the rough words of an educated man for what they're worth: perhaps one more miracle tipping the scales that weigh the eternal question of love New York Times

O autorze

Kennedy, Thomas E. Thomas E. Kennedy's many books include novels, story and essay collections, literary criticism, translations and anthologies. He teaches in the MFA programme at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Beneath the Neon Egg is the final book in his Copenhagen Quartet, following In the Company of Angels, Falling Sideways and Kerrigan in Copenhagen. The multiple awards he has received for his writing include an O. Henry Award, two Pushcart Prizes, an American National Magazine Award and many translation grants from the Danish Arts Council. Born and raised in New York, he lives in Copenhagen with his two children.www.copenhagenquartet.comwww.thomasekennedy.com