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My Old Man

Amy Sohn (Autor)

Simon & Schuster (Editora)

R$ 137,51
SKU: 9780743238298

From the New York Times bestselling author Amy Sohn, one of New York City's most provocative columnists, comes a hip, contemporary novel about sex, sin, and living in the same neighborhood as your parents.

When twenty-six-year-old Rachel Block started rabbinical school, she didn't think she'd be dropping out after a semester and a half. But when a sick man dies under her counseling, she realizes she's not cut out for the rabbinate. To make ends meet, she takes a job as a bartender in her Brooklyn neighborhood--much to her parents' chagrin. It's the quintessential quarter-life crisis, compounded by the fact that she's still living just blocks from her childhood home.

Then Rachel falls in love with Hank Powell, an iconoclastic screenwriter twice her age. Suddenly she's reassessing her values, her surroundings, and everything she's ever thought about the "right" kind of relationship. Meanwhile, her interactions with her father, with whom she's always been close, have become increasingly strange. Is he distraught that she's dropped out of school? Is he having his own, midlife, crisis? Something's up...and Rachel's increasingly convinced it might be her father's libido.

With Rachel's own relationship getting wilder and weirder and her parents acting like teenagers, it seems that everyone in Cobble Hill is going crazy. A fresh spin on Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, My Old Man is a black comedy about a dysfunctional Brooklyn family coming apart at the seams.

Sobre o Livro

Rachel Block abandona o seminário rabínico no primeiro ano após a morte de um paciente sob sua orientação; para se sustentar, vira bartender em Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

A relação com Hank Powell, roteirista muito mais velho, obriga Rachel a reavaliar valores e afetos; ao mesmo tempo, episódios na vida do pai sugerem uma crise de meia-idade que transforma as dinâmicas familiares.

Com humor negro, a narrativa focaliza o cotidiano de um bairro do Brooklyn e as tensões geracionais que o atravessam; o tom explora sexualidade, culpa e laços familiares por meio de situações cotidianas e diálogos ácidos.

Características

Categoria Ficção
Subcategoria Romance contemporâneo
Autores Amy Sohn
Sobre o Autor Amy Sohn é escritora americana que publica colunas e romances ambientados em Nova York.
Idioma Inglês
Quantidade de Páginas 336
Acabamento Brochura
Editora Simon & Schuster
ISBN 9780743238298
Tamanho 14.0x21.6
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