Horse Named Sorrow

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-299-28970-6
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 448 g

Award-winning novelist Trebor Healey depicts San Francisco in the 1980s and '90s in poetic prose that is both ribald and poignant, and a crossing into the American West that is dreamy, mythic, and visionary.<br><br> When troubled twenty-one-year-old Seamus Blake meets the strong and self-possessed Jimmy (just arrived in San Francisco by bicycle from his hometown in Buffalo, New York), he feels his life may finally be taking a turn for the better. But the ensuing romance proves short-lived as Jimmy dies of an AIDS-related illness. The grieving Seamus is obliged to keep a promise to Jimmy: 'Take me back the way I came.'<br><br> And so Seamus sets out by bicycle on a picaresque journey with the ashes, hoping to bring them back to Buffalo. He meets truck drivers, waitresses, college kids, farmers, ranchers, Marines, and other travellers - each one giving him a new perspective on his own life and on Jimmy's death. When he meets and becomes involved with a young Native American man whose mother has recently died, Seamus's grief and his story become universal and redemptive.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Healey, Trebor

Über Autor(innen)

<strong>Trebor Healey</strong> is an American poet and novelist. He was born in San Francisco, raised in Seattle, and studied English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He spent his twenties in San Francisco, where he was active in the spoken word scene of the late 80s and early 90s, publishing 5 chapbooks of poetry as well as numerous poems and short stories in various reviews, journals, anthologies and zines. He received both the Ferro-Grumley Fiction Award and the Violet Quill Award for his first novel, <em>Through It Came Bright Colors</em>, and his story <em>""Mercy Seat""</em> was named one of the top ten online stories of 2004 by StorySouth. He lives in Buenos Aires.