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An edition of Spooner (2009)

Spooner

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Roman d'autofiction. Roman de société

"Pour la mère de Spooner, cet accouchement marquait la fin d'un mois épuisant : d'abord le crève-coeur de voir (pour la deuxième fois) Eisenhower l'emporter sur le démocrate Adlai Stevenson, puis la mort de son père, puis la soudaine et mystérieuse maladie de Ward, son mari, et à présent ce funeste accouchement dont le travail interminable avait entraîné la mort du plus beau de ses jumeaux, Clifford, son premier fils. Et ensuite? Qu'avait-elle à montrer en récompense de ses souffrances? Spooner. Warren Whitlowe Spooner, 2,270 kg, cinquante-trois heures rien que pour franchir le portillon." Né dans les années 50 à Milledgeville (Géorgie), Spooner est intenable. Enfant agité, adolescent rebelle, il est élevé par son beau-père, Calmer Ottosson. Cet ancien officier de marine, expulsé de l'armée, consacrera sa vie à tenter, en vain, d'empêcher Spooner de semer autour de lui le chaos et la désolation. Ce livre au souffle ample, qui alterne le drame et la comédie, jusqu'à la farce, est le portrait magnifique d'une Amérique qui croyait encore à des valeurs que notre époque allait bientôt balayer. En créant Warren Spooner, son double de fiction, Pete Dexter nous livre son roman le plus personnel.

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Éd. de l'Olivier
Language
French
Pages
556

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Edition Notes

Trad. de : "spooner."

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[Paris]

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Library of Congress
PS3554D527S7642011F

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Format
[Texte imprimé] /
Pagination
1 vol. (556 p.)
Number of pages
556

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL29550408M
Internet Archive
spooner0000dext
ISBN 10
2879297249
ISBN 13
9782879297248
OCLC/WorldCat
758818962

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Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant young naval officer, Calmer Ottosson, recently court-martialed out of service. This is the story of the lifelong tie between the two men, poles apart, of Spooner's troubled childhood, troubled adolescence, violent and troubled adulthood and Calmer Ottosson's inexhaustible patience, undertaking a life-long struggle to salvage his step-son, a man he will never understand.

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