The Topeka School

Name: The Topeka School
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Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Ben Lerner
ISBN: 978-1-78378-572-8

Par : Ben Lerner

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Nombre de pages282
PrésentationBroché
FormatGrand Format
Poids0.28 kg
Dimensions13,5 cm × 21,5 cm × 1,8 cm
ISBN978-1-78378-572-8
EAN9781783785728
Date de parution01/10/2019
ÉditeurGranta Books

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"The Topeka School is a novel of exhilarating intellectual inquiry, penetrating social insight and deep psychological sensitivity. To the extent that we can speak of a future at present, I think the future of the novel is here". SALLY ROONEY. "In prose both richly textured and many-voiced, we track the inner lives of one white family's interconnected strengths and silences. What's revealed is part tableau of our collective lust for belonging, part diagnosis of our ongoing national violence.
This is Lerner's most essential and provocative creation yet". CLAUDIA RANKINE.

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“ American Hateland ”

A reader of a sensitive temperament may be inclined to pity Ben Lerner's association with the capital of Kansas after finishing the author's arch vision of his hometown. 'The Topeka School' is a wonderfully crafted story demonstrating the insidious kind of toxic masculinity which the two youthful main characters Adam and Darren are unable to escape. Lerner possesses a deep and intuitive knowledge of the mores of the American heartland responsible for a winner-take all mentality which is part and parcel of the boys' social ascension regardless of the influence and desire of parents who are seemingly oblivious to the mindless herd mentality with potentially lethal consequences.