Nowhere man : the Pronek fantasies / Aleksandar Hemon
- Bib ID:
- 2354747
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Nan A. Talese 2002
- 242 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0385499248
- Summary:
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"This is what we know about Jozef Pronek: He is a young man from Sarajevo who left to visit the United States in 1992, just in time to watch war break out at home on TV. Stranded in the relative comfort of Chicago, he proves himself a charming and frankly perceptive observer of - and participant in - American life. With Nowhere Man, Pronek, accidental urban nomad, gets his own book." "From the grand causes of his adolescence - principally, fighting to change the face of rock and roll and hilariously struggling to lose his virginity - up through a fleeting encounter with George Bush (the first) in Kiev, to enrollment in a Chicago ESL class and the glorious adventures of minimum-wage living, Pronek's experiences are at once touchingly familiar and bracingly out of the ordinary.".
"But the story of his life is not so simple as a series of global adventures. Pronek is continually haunted by an unseen observer, his movements chronicled by narrators with dubious motives - all of which culminates in a final episode that upends many of our assumptions about Pronek's identity while illustrating precisely what it means to be a Nowhere Man."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2002
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