Goodness
by Tim Parks
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George Crawley has finally got his life running along satisfyingly straight lines. Having made a success of his career and saved his faltering marriage, he is secure in the belief that he is master of his own destiny. Then comes the tragic blow - fate presents him with an apparently insoluble problem. Except that the word 'insoluble' just isn't part of the man's vocabulary. George will stop at nothing, nothing, to get his life back on the rails again.Tags
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Karrieremensch George versucht, seine Ehe mit einem Kind zu kitten. Doch die kleine Hilary kommt behindert zur Welt. Staunend entdeckt George nicht nur die Grenzen seiner rastlos-kühlen Lebensplanung, sondern auch nach und nach sein Gefühl für die hilflose Tochter. "Parks erzählt packend, aber nicht beklemmend, ironisch, voller Situationskomik, wissend, witzig und äußerst spannend." (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
Karrieremensch George versucht, seine Ehe mit einem Kind zu kitten. Doch die kleine Hilary kommt behindert zur Welt. Staunend entdeckt George nicht nur die Grenzen seiner rastlos-kühlen Lebensplanung, sondern auch nach und nach sein Gefühl für die hilflose Tochter. "Parks erzählt packend, aber nicht beklemmend, ironisch, voller Situationskomik, wissend, witzig und äußerst spannend." (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
Apr 6, 2012 (Edited)German
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Tim Parks is the author of more than twenty novels and works of nonfiction, including Italian Neighbors, An Italian Education, Adultery, Hell and Back, and Teach Us to Sit Still. He is also a contributor to the New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, and translator of the works of Alberto Moravia, Roberto Calasso, Italo Calvino, and Antonio show more Tabucchi, among others. He lives in Italy. show less
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