Name: A Backhanded Gift (en Inglés)
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Author: Fisher, Marshall Jon
ISBN: 9781937559144

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Marshall Jon Fisher

Editorial

New Chapter Press

Año

2012

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

250

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.6 x 14.0 x 2.8 cm

Peso

0.39 kg.

ISBN

1937559149

ISBN13

9781937559144

Categorías

Ficción: general y literaria
Ficción deportiva
Ficción histórica

A Backhanded Gift (en Inglés)

Marshall Jon Fisher (Autor) · New Chapter Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "A Backhanded Gift (en Inglés)"

It's the late 1980s, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Robert Cherney, a 30-year-old aspiring writer, has left New York City for a job teaching tennis in Munich. Aside from private lessons, he coaches the Maccabi Club men's league team, a motley group of neurotics whose eccentricities seem exacerbated by their situation as Jews living in Germany. They have made fortunes in postwar Germany but are hounded daily by the ghosts of the past and wracked with guilt over living so blithely among their parents' tormentors. One of the players on Robert's team is his best friend in Munich, Max Altmann, a successful and wealthy young businessman who is also Robert's employer, landlord, provocateur, and guide to Munich's nightlife. In addition to trying to figure out his life and not go crazy teaching tennis, Robert is trying to forget Lexa, the focus of years of erotic obsession back in New York. Helping him are Ingrid, a 40-ish Maccabi member and tennis pupil, and Veronique, a 25-year-old Jewish graduate student whom Max tries to set up with Robert. Love, tennis, sex, frustrated artistic ambition, and the dilemma of being a German Jew are all ingredients of this literary delight that is at turns serious and comedic.