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Ray Robertson

    Ray Robertson crea romanzi che approfondiscono le complessità della psiche umana e delle relazioni. La sua prosa è caratterizzata da un acuto intuito nelle motivazioni dei personaggi e da un uso preciso del linguaggio. Attraverso la sua opera, esplora temi come l'identità, la memoria e la ricerca di significato nel mondo contemporaneo. L'approccio letterario di Robertson offre ai lettori profonde riflessioni sulle proprie esperienze.

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    Moody Food
    • Moody Food

      • 390pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      Inspired by the exploits of ill-fated country-rock visionary Gram Parsons, this mid-60s tale of idealism and escape traces the trials of a fictionalized draft-dodging flower child from the United States to Canada and back. It is the late 1960s in Yorkville, Toronto's hippie ghetto of artists, intellectuals, drunken poets, and would-be rock stars. In this idyllic haven, narrator Bill Hansen, a drummer, meets Thomas Graham, an American musician on the lam from the draft. The two form a band, but even as they revel in music and freedom, Graham is hobbled by another love: a drug habit that becomes his reason for living and, eventually, for dying. Graham's emotional trip and failed, revolutionary life reflect the rise and fall of an entire generation's aspirations.

      Moody Food
      3,9
    • In Zeiten entgleisender Depressionen im öffentlichen wie im privaten Raum, schöpft Ray Robertson aus Literatur, Philosophie und seiner Biografie, um die Wertschätzung der Existenz zu rehabilitieren. Mit Verve und Humor rühmen seine Kapitel immerwährende Freuden, für die es sich zu leben lohnt – darunter naheliegende wie Freundschaft und Liebe, und näherliegende wie Rauschzustände und Besitztümer. Eine durch und durch reanimierende Kollektion. Philosophie, todernst und urkomisch Das Überlebensbuch für erschöpfte Egos Eigenes Vorwort für die deutsche Ausgabe

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