Escape Velocity
- 400 stránok
- 14 hodin čítania
Though Charles Portis is best known for his fiction writing, he is also a prolific essayist, travel writer, and newspaper reporter.
Charles Portis je známy svojim osobitým štýlom písania, ktorý sa vyznačuje suchým humorom a prenikavým pozorovaním ľudskej povahy. Jeho diela často skúmajú témy cti, lojality a hľadania identity v nejednoznačných morálnych krajinách. Portis majstrovsky využíva jazyk na vytvorenie nezabudnuteľných postáv a atmosféry, ktoré čitateľov vtiahnu do svojich príbehov. Jeho jedinečný hlas a literárna zručnosť z neho robia významnú postavu americkej literatúry.






Though Charles Portis is best known for his fiction writing, he is also a prolific essayist, travel writer, and newspaper reporter.
From Arkansas down to New Mexico and eventually leading to Honduras, a man is on the hunt for his wife who is following her first husband by a trail of credit card receipts.
Pursuing a murderer who has escaped into Indian Territory, U.S. Marshal Rooster J. Cogburn teams up with a bounty-hunting Texas Ranger and Mattie Ross, a cantankerous young lady who is bent on revenge.
1917 France, Lamar Jimmerson finds a little book of Atlantean puzzles, Egyptian riddles, alchemical metaphors, and the Codex Pappus said to be the sacred Gnomonic text. He expands the noble brotherhood, survives scandalous schism, bids for governor of Indiana, and sees Gnomons gather in East Texas mobile home. This is an America of misfits and con men, oddballs and innocents.