Cold Spring Harbor
Roman
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Long Island in den 1940er-Jahren: Charles und Grace Shepard sorgen sich um Sohn Evan, der nach einer wilden Pubertät und einer früh gescheiterten Ehe nicht recht auf die Beine kommt. Da lernen sie zufällig Familie Drake kennen, und Evan verliebt sich in die stille, schöne Rachel. Nach einer kurzen Verlobungszeit heiraten sie, doch das Haus in Cold Spring Harbor müssen sie sich mit Rachels Mutter Gloria teilen ... Bald liegen die Nerven blank.
Ein Roman über Väter und Söhne, Mütter und Töchter, die Liebe und die Fehler der Jugend – von »einem der wichtigsten amerikanischen Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts« (FAZ).
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The central "character'' and enveloping presence in this novel is a ``whole rotten little town'' on the north shore of Long Island. In no sense the Cold Spring Harbor of the tourists and summer people, it is the dismal home base where the characters live out their disappointments and aborted hopes in the period before and after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Evan Shepherd, a lout as boy and man, a machinist in love with cars, is the son of a retired Army officer reduced to the role of valet to his neurasthenic, alcoholic second wife, Rachel, daughter of a garrulous, socially pretentious alcoholic madwoman. Rachel's brother Phil, a 16-year-old prep-school student, is the only character who might conceivably develop into a substantial person. The lives portrayed are bleak, trivial, thwarted, vapid, but they are made memorable against all odds by Yates's high virtue as a writer. The power demonstrated in his earlier work (A Good School; The Easter Parade is reconfirmed here; he can bring a scene, a subject, a character to sharply detailed focus through an unswerving fidelity to the grim truths of existence, related in a clear and ringing prose.
