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The Washington Story
Adam Langer
其他書名
A Novel in Five Spheres
出版Riverhead Books, 2005
主題Fiction / SagasFiction / Historical / GeneralFiction / LiteraryFiction / JewishFiction / City Life
ISBN15732232479781573223249
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9d1lAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋More than a year and a half has passed since Jill Wasserstrom tried to catch up to Muley Wills in West Rogers Park in Chicago. Now, in The Washington Story, we meet up with them again. Over the course of the next five years-from 1982 to 1987-their lives will change as they move beyond the boundaries of West Rogers Park. Jill will go off to college in Poughkeepsie, New York, while Muley will enter art school, rooming with manic cartoonist Hillel Levy; Michelle Wasserstrom will study acting in New York, and experience love for the first time; Larry Rovner will cut his first album; Charlie Wasserstrom will have a baby and a new career; and Mel Coleman and Deirdre Wills will attempt to form a family. Intertwined with their individual fates is the larger, ever-shifting world around them. Together they will live through the deaths of Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko and the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev; the death of the Chicago political machine and the rise and fall of Chicago mayor Harold Washington; the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and the return of Halley's Comet. They will travel from Chicago to Cape Canaveral, Florida, to New York, Europe, and beyond. And once again, Jill and Muley will find themselves on a street corner in a very different Chicago from the one they first knew. As he did in Crossing California, Adam Langer brilliantly brings to life the hopes and realities of a group of young people coming of age in a particular time in America's history. He shows us how each of us is inextricably linked to the circumstances around us, and yet holds out hope that dreams are worth pursuing-even if they don't lead us to where we expect they will. Book jacket.