Writers and Partisans
A History of Literary Radicalism in America
James Gilbert Knihy
Tento autor sa pohybuje na pomedzí histórie a fikcie a skúma ľudskú skúsenosť prostredníctvom svojich fascinácií. Raná akademická dráha sa zamerala na americkú intelektuálnu a kultúrnu históriu, ale sklamanie z obmedzení historiografického písania ho prinútilo k próze. Tam, kde história vyžaduje dôkazy a poznámky pod čiarou, fikcia ponúka slobodu na preskúmanie vnútorného sveta postáv a ich motivácií. Jeho romány, často zakorenené vo spomienkach a osobných zážitkoch, sa ponárajú do rozmanitých tém, od satirických pohľadov na životné prostredie až po tajomné rozprávania. Autor vo svojich dielach majstrovsky pretvára skutočnosť do imaginatívnych príbehov.
The Key Party
- 252 stránok
- 9 hodin čítania
Four couples discover how far each will go to escape the boredom and routine of their lives.Set in a suburb of Chicago in the 1950s, the story centers around four married couples. The men play golf together at the local country club, and the women play bridge every week. One man reads about the "key party" game in a magazine and shares it with his friends. The idea is that the women put their house keys in a hat, and the men select a key at random; the key each man draws determines which woman he'll have sex with that night.One night while all four couples are together celebrating one couple's anniversary and a lot of drinking is going on, the man suggests that they play the game. Surprisingly, the women agree. No one sleeps with anyone else's wife, but the whole incident causes a lot of friction in the group. Somehow, word gets out in the community about the key party, and all four couples are shunned.
