The Resource The heat of the sun, David Rain
The heat of the sun, David Rain
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- Summary
- When recently orphaned Woodley Sharpless encounters Ben Pinkerton - known to all as 'Trouble' - for the first time at the exclusive Blaze Academy, he is instantly enraptured. They are complete opposites; Ben is exotic and daring; Woodley is bookish and frail, yet their lives quickly become inextricably intertwined. First at school, then in the staccato days of twenties New York, Woodley sees flashes of another person in his friend and slowly discovers a side of Ben's nature that belies a dark and hidden history. As the curtain falls on the frivolity of the twenties and rises to reveal the cruelty of a new decade, Woodley and Ben's friendship begins to fragment. Over the coming years the two men meet only intermittently; in Japan before the outbreak of the Second World War and then again in amidst the furore of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. Change in both their lives, their relationship and their suffering, stand for a generation; one dispersed by depression and upheaval, brutality and confusion. David Rain's novel The Gravity of Americans is an ambitious and assured debut that captures perfectly two friends, two loves: two lives
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 285 p.
- Contents
-
- Overture
- Act one: A boy called Trouble
- Act two: Telemachus, stay
- Between the acts
- Act three: After Tokugawa
- Act four: The gravity of Americans
- Curtain
- Isbn
- 9780857892041
- Label
- The heat of the sun
- Title
- The heat of the sun
- Statement of responsibility
- David Rain
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- When recently orphaned Woodley Sharpless encounters Ben Pinkerton - known to all as 'Trouble' - for the first time at the exclusive Blaze Academy, he is instantly enraptured. They are complete opposites; Ben is exotic and daring; Woodley is bookish and frail, yet their lives quickly become inextricably intertwined. First at school, then in the staccato days of twenties New York, Woodley sees flashes of another person in his friend and slowly discovers a side of Ben's nature that belies a dark and hidden history. As the curtain falls on the frivolity of the twenties and rises to reveal the cruelty of a new decade, Woodley and Ben's friendship begins to fragment. Over the coming years the two men meet only intermittently; in Japan before the outbreak of the Second World War and then again in amidst the furore of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. Change in both their lives, their relationship and their suffering, stand for a generation; one dispersed by depression and upheaval, brutality and confusion. David Rain's novel The Gravity of Americans is an ambitious and assured debut that captures perfectly two friends, two loves: two lives
- Cataloging source
- UKMGB
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rain, David
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Male friendship
- Coming of age
- Label
- The heat of the sun, David Rain
- Contents
- Overture -- Act one: A boy called Trouble -- Act two: Telemachus, stay -- Between the acts -- Act three: After Tokugawa -- Act four: The gravity of Americans -- Curtain
- Control code
- 000049598059
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 285 p.
- Isbn
- 9780857892041
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Label
- The heat of the sun, David Rain
- Contents
- Overture -- Act one: A boy called Trouble -- Act two: Telemachus, stay -- Between the acts -- Act three: After Tokugawa -- Act four: The gravity of Americans -- Curtain
- Control code
- 000049598059
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 285 p.
- Isbn
- 9780857892041
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
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