John Niven: Straight White Male, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Straight White Male
- Publisher:
- Random House UK Ltd, 07/2014
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780099592150
- Item number:
- 4206957
- Volume:
- 374 Pages
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2014
- Weight:
- 301 g
- Format:
- 198 x 129 mm
- Thickness:
- 31 mm
- Release date:
- 3.7.2014
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Price |
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| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert | EUR 11.00* |
Short description
Kennedy Marr ist ein Autor der alten Schule. Irisch, zynisch bis zum Anschlag, ein Borderline-Alkoholiker und Sex-Süchtiger. Sein Mantra lautet: hart trinken, gut essen und jede Frau flachlegen, die bei drei nicht auf den Bäumen ist. Mittlerweile als Drehbuchautor in L. A. ansässig, flucht er sich durch die kalifornische Literatur- und Filmszene. Doch sein verschwenderischer Lebensstil bringt ihn an den Rand des Bankrotts, bis sich unverhofft eine Lösung anbietet. In England wird er für einen hoch dotierten Literaturpreis vorgeschlagen. Um an das Geld zu kommen, gilt es allerdings, mehrere konfliktbeladene Auflagen zu erfüllen. Another brilliant comic satire, but Niven's most accessible yet.
Review
" Straight White Male is a heartbreaker; a poignant literary treatise on the all-too-mortal battle between human individual desire and social need, disguised as a high-octane novel of laddish excess." Irvine Welsh Guardian
Blurb
Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard and try to screw every woman you meet. He's writing film scripts in LA, fucking, drinking and insulting his way through Californian society, but also suffering from writers block and unpaid taxes.Blurb
Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard and try to screw every woman you meet. He's writing film scripts in LA, fucking, drinking and insulting his way through Californian society, but also suffering from writers block and unpaid taxes. Then a solution presents itself - Marr is to be the unlikely recipient of the W. F. Bingham Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Modern Literature, an award worth half a million pounds. But it does not come without a price: he must spend a year teaching at the English university where his ex-wife and estranged daughter now reside.
As Kennedy acclimatises to the sleepy campus, inspiring revulsion and worship in equal measure, he's forced to reconsider his precarious lifestyle. Incredible as it may seem, there might actually be a father and a teacher lurking inside this 'preening, narcissistic, priapic, sociopath'. Or is there...
Straight White Male is a no-holds-barred look into the mid-life crisis and the contemporary male sexual psyche. It is a brilliant new satire from one of Britain's sharpest writers.
Biography
John Niven, geb. in Ayrshire im Südwesten Schottlands, spielte in den Achtzigern Gitarre bei der Indieband 'The Wishing Stones', studierte dann Englische Literatur in Glasgow und arbeitete schließlich in den Neunzigern als A&R-Manager einer Plattenfirma, bevor er sich 2002 dem Schreiben zuwandte. 2006 erschien sein erstes Buch, eine halbfiktionale Novelle. John Niven schreibt außerdem Drehbücher und Romane. Er lebt derzeit in Buckinghamshire, England.
