Tweedehands

Dé gratis verkoopsite gericht op particulieren

Tim Willocks : green river rising.

Prijs: € 7,-

30 keer bekeken • Status: Actief

  • Staat:
  • Zo goed als nieuw
  • Soort boek:
  • Paperback

Tim Willocks : green river rising.

Avon books, paperback 9780380723577 /1995 (pocket) 384pp lichte verkleuring boekblok, verder bijna als nieuw, engelstalig.

De prijs is excl. Verzendkosten van 3,64 euro.

Nauseating, overblown, almost surrealistically violent -- this book is not for the squeamish, or even those who appreciate a bit of restraint when it comes to prose style. But prison life probably would not suit those readers either, and this nonstop over-the-top rant is without a doubt one of the best prison novels ever written. Green river* is the name of a larger-than-life state penitentiary, where a doomed population of long-term convicts swelter in the texas heat, fight prison-gang battles, and endure the discipline of a corrupt warden and guards. This mixture would be volatile enough without the fact that the warden is slowly going insane, and has every intention of using his job as therapy. All it takes is an incendiary speech and an unnecessary punitive lockdown, and green river is well on its way to riot. Our everyman guide here is ray klein, a doctor locked up on a somewhat dubious rape charge. Klein does his karate training religiously, volunteers in the prison clinic, and otherwise tries to remember his own personal survival maxim (*not my fucking business*). His strategy of non-involvement works quite well until conditions become very unusual -- his development after that is one of the best aspects of the novel. Willocks takes his novelistic project quite seriously, and probably takes himself pretty seriously too. At times this verges on pomposity, as in the laughable one-page introduction, which begins *imagine darkness, if you will ...* And concludes with *this is the tale of the green river. And this is the tale of its rising.* But the further you read the more you see that the subject matter calls for extreme prose, and al so that willocks hits his mark much more often than he misses. It*s a matter of taste. I*m sure, but i*ll take this kind of mostly-successful ambition over bland competence any day.

De prijs is excl verzendkosten van 3,70 euro / ben gang gr kast re  scan

Website tipBoeken aanbiedingen op Bol.com

Reageer nu!

Contact-informatie

( Particulier )
15 jaar actief op Tweedehands.net
Bekijk alle advertenties

Noordwijk
(Zuid-Holland, Nederland)
Tel: 0718886636

Biedingen

Nog geen biedingen geplaatst

Opties voor deze advertentie

Advertentie van Tweedehands.net
Favorieten (0)