Drei Hochzeiten, zwei Scheidungen, ein Beinschuss und Lieder von der Liebe§Fünf Freunde aus einer Kleinstadt im Norden der USA. Durchs Schicksal auseinandergetrieben, lebt in allen die Sehnsucht nach der Nähe, die sie einst verband. Ein sentimentaler, kraftvoller Roman, der vielstimmig von den großen Themen Freundschaft, Heimat und Liebe erzählt.
Drei Hochzeiten, zwei Scheidungen, ein Beinschuss und Lieder von der Liebe§Fünf Freunde aus einer Kleinstadt im Norden der USA. Durchs Schicksal aus...
"Sparkles in every way. A love letter to the open lonely American heartland...A must-read." --People
"The kind of book that restores your faith in humanity." --Toronto Star
Welcome to Little Wing.
It's a place like hundreds of others, but for four boyhood friends--all born and raised in this small Wisconsin town--it is home. One of them never left, still working the family farm, but the others felt the need to move...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Impressively original." --The New York Times
"Sparkles in every way. A love letter to the op...
Nickolas Butler's debut novel, Shotgun Lovesongs, has become an international bestseller and won numerous accolades, including France's Prix Page/America. Now, in Beneath the Bonfire, he demonstrates his talent for portraying "a place and its people with such love that you'll find yourself falling for them, too" (Josh Weil, author of The Great Glass Sea).
Young couples gather to participate in an annual "chainsaw party," cutting down trees for firewood in anticipation of the winter. A group of men spend a weekend hunting for mushrooms in the wilderness where...
Nickolas Butler's debut novel, Shotgun Lovesongs, has become an international bestseller and won numerous accolades, including France's Pri...
" A] tender, insightful book... Perfectly paced and leavened with humor, it's a wonderful read." -- People
An epic novel of intertwining friendships and families set in the Northwoods of Wisconsin at a beloved Boy Scout summer camp--from the bestselling author of Shotgun Lovesongs
Camp Chippewa, 1962. Nelson Doughty, age thirteen, social outcast and overachiever, is the Bugler, sounding the reveille proudly each morning. Yet this particular summer marks the beginning of an uncertain and tenuous friendship with a popular boy...
" A] tender, insightful book... Perfectly paced and leavened with humor, it's a wonderful read." -- People
From the bestselling author of Shotgun Lovesongs, an unforgettable novel about fathers and sons, the tough lessons of adulthood, and what it means to be a good man, set over five decades in a changing America
From the bestselling author of Shotgun Lovesongs, an unforgettable novel about fathers and sons, the tough lessons of adulthood, and what it means to ...
"Butler gehört in die erste Reihe der amerikanischen Gegenwartsautoren." Booklist
Über eine Zeitspanne von drei Generationen und ebenso vielen Kriegen erkundet dieser Roman die Herzen der Männer: ihre Schwächen und Geheimnisse, ihre Bedürfnisse und Werte. Damit legt Nickolas Butler nach "Shotgun Lovesongs" ein vielschichtiges und sensibles Epos über die Verletzungen, die Männer einander und anderen zufügen, vor.
"Butler gehört in die erste Reihe der amerikanischen Gegenwartsautoren." Booklist
Über eine Zeitspanne von drei Generationen und ebenso...
