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Joshua Mohr

    Joshua Mohr je autorom piatich románov, ktoré sa vyznačujú jedinečným štýlom, často označovaným ako „Beat-poet cool“. Jeho tvorba sa ponára do hlbín ľudskej skúsenosti a skúma zložité vzťahy a vnútorné boje postáv. Mohrov prozaický štýl je zároveň surový aj lyrický, čo čitateľom ponúka intenzívny a nezabudnuteľný čitateľský zážitok. Vďaka svojej schopnosti zachytiť podstatu moderného života a jeho krehkosti je Mohr považovaný za významný súčasný hlas v literatúre.

    Model Citizen
    • 2021

      Model Citizen

      • 336 stránok
      • 12 hodin čítania
      4,3(181)Ohodnotiť

      The intimate, gorgeous, garish confessions of Joshua Mohr—writer, father, alcoholic, addict. Her teeth marks in the wood are some of my favorite things. Every now and again she rips the pick out of my hand and tosses it inside the guitar . . . I hold it over my head, hole down, shaking it back and forth, the pick rattling around in there. And as it ricochets from side to side, I always think about pills. Maybe the pick has turned into oxy. Or Norco, codeine, Demerol. Maybe it’s a pill and when it falls out I can gobble it up. After years of hard-won sobriety, while rebuilding a life with his wife and young daughter, thirty-five-year-old Joshua Mohr suffers a stroke—his third, it turns out—which uncovers a heart condition requiring surgery. Which requires fentanyl, one of his myriad drugs of choice. This forced “freelapse” should fix his heart, but what will it do to his sobriety? And what if it doesn’t work? Told in stunning, surreal, time-hopping vignettes, Model Citizen is a raw, revealing portrait of an addict. Mohr shines a harsh spotlight into all corners of his life, throwing the wild joys, tragedies, embarrassments, and adventures of his past into bold relief. Pulsing with humanity and humor, revealing the immediacy of an addict climbing out of the murky pit of his past, Model Citizen is a darkly beautiful, incisive confession.

      Model Citizen