Call Me Brooklyn
Eduardo Lago
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Description for Call Me Brooklyn
Paperback. Editor(s): Lago, Eduardo. Num Pages: 460 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 142 x 27. Weight in Grams: 500.
Through an ingenious structure that jumps from narrator to narrator and spans decades, "Call Me Brooklyn" follows the life of Gal Ackerman, a Spanish orphan adopted during the Spanish Civil War and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Moving from the secret tunnels that shelter the forgotten residents of Manhattan to the studio where Mark Rothko put an end to his life, from the jazz clubs frequented by Thomas Pynchon to the bar in Madrid where we learn the truth about Ackerman's past, "Call Me Brooklyn" draws upon a rich tradition that includes Nabokov's "Pale Fire," Bellow's "Humbolt's Gift," and the novels ... Read more
Through an ingenious structure that jumps from narrator to narrator and spans decades, "Call Me Brooklyn" follows the life of Gal Ackerman, a Spanish orphan adopted during the Spanish Civil War and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Moving from the secret tunnels that shelter the forgotten residents of Manhattan to the studio where Mark Rothko put an end to his life, from the jazz clubs frequented by Thomas Pynchon to the bar in Madrid where we learn the truth about Ackerman's past, "Call Me Brooklyn" draws upon a rich tradition that includes Nabokov's "Pale Fire," Bellow's "Humbolt's Gift," and the novels ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
460
Condition
New
Number of Pages
364
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564788603
SKU
V9781564788603
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Ref
99-15
About Eduardo Lago
Eduardo Lago was born in Madrid in 1954, and has been a resident of New York City for the last twenty-two years. He has authored numerous interviews with important North American authors, including John Barth, David Foster Wallace, and Don DeLillo, and has also translated numerous works of English literature into Spanish. Lago served for a number of years as ... Read more
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