Name: frankland (en Inglés)
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Author: Whorton, James
ISBN: 9780743244497

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

James Whorton

Editorial

Free Press

Año

2006

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

277

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.5 x 13.9 x 1.8 cm

Peso

0.37 kg.

ISBN13

9780743244497

Categorías

Ficción literaria
Satírica y paródica

frankland (en Inglés)

James Whorton (Autor) · Free Press · Tapa Blanda

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With his offbeat sense of humor and down-home Southern sensibility, James Whorton has been compared to luminaries such as John Kennedy Toole and Carson McCullers. He sharpens his cutting wit to a keen edge in Frankland, following the misadventures of a wannabe academic who goes hunting for a secret history and gets much more than he bargained for. John Tolley is a bumbling college dropout who yearns to become a bowtie-wearing, pipe-smoking historian. When he hears that Andrew Johnson's lost papers may have been preserved by an heir in Tennessee, he grabs his tweed jacket and heads south, convinced that he'll discover the key to a groundbreaking biography on the seventeenth U.S. president and the start of a respectable career. But things start to go awry when his car breaks down in the town of Pantherville, Tennessee. Tolley rents a decrepit shack owned by a neurotic ex-con and is soon sucked into a world of cockfights, coon dogs, and the politics of Pantherville's good old boys. Surrounded by folks as eccentric as he is, including an alluringly shy mail carrier named Dweena, Tolley starts to feel at home -- even if his quest for academic glory might just prove to be a wild goose chase. Native and newcomer, highbrow and hillbilly cross paths and tangle hilariously in this wry and ribald tale.