Town College City Road follows Kurt Boozel from childhood in an insular Northwestern Pennsylvania steel town, to college, through the booms and busts of the financial and cryptocurrency markets, and back to his Rust Belt home.
As a young math nerd, Kurt is bullied but relishes the opportunity to tutor his high school's star athlete. After their friendship ends in a public and emasculating act of violence, Kurt steers his life progressively eastward, first as a closeted economics major clinging to the coattails of his richer fraternity brothers, then to New York for a high-pressure finance job. After turning his attention to the fantastic promises of the cryptocurrency market, he finds himself unmoored while driving across Pennsylvania in the midst of a snowstorm to be the best man at his older brother's wedding.
Through his struggles to pass multiple masculine initiations, both real and metaphorical, Kurt ultimately discovers that the only thing tougher than running away from rural mythology is constructing a new one.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"Personal and sweeping, honed to the marvel of the moment, this coming-of-age against the backdrop of a tech (r)evolution offers subtle critique about what we value and why - both in ourselves and others. Neither a hero nor quite an underdog, Kurt faces challenges that reflect the fragmented and fragile social structure that Millennials and Gen Z occupy." - Alex Myers, author of Revolutionary
Sprache
Verlagsort
Produkt-Hinweis
Broschur/Paperback
Klebebindung
Maße
Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-299-35424-4 (9780299354244)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Patrick McGinty is an assistant professor of languages, literatures, cultures, and writing at Slippery Rock University and lives in Pittsburgh. He is the author of Test Drive, a novel about the driverless car sector.
