70.370 palabras (≈ alrededor de 5 horas)
Munich, 1990: American expat slacker Gordy Ford poses as a top Hitler scholar, all to impress a girl. Stuck in his scam, Gordy soon thinks he's stumbled onto a shocking historical discovery that's made him the target of a wannabe Neo-Nazi and shady Russian mafia. There's dark and dry humor, a rowdy plot, and imposters exposed despite their best efforts.
Lengua: Inglés
Escrito en: 2009
Publicado: 2012-08-01
Numero de palabras: 70.370 palabras (≈ alrededor de 5 horas)
Tags: comic novel, cold war, east germany, americans abroad, germany, munich, oktoberfest, expat, Humor, Satire
Steve Anderson is the author of The Losing Role and other novels, and the Kindles Singles Double-Edged Sword and Sitting Ducks. Anderson was a Fulbright Fellow in Germany, and has written short stories and screenplays. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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domingo, 30 de diciembre de 2012 18:00:17 +0100
This is an excellent - if rather quirky - comic novel. I particularly liked the deadpan humour but the author also manages to make his central character, Gordy, sufficiently likeable (despite his many, many faults) that you care what happens to him – which is not always a given in fiction of this type. But don't just take my word for it - this book has garnered a clutch of positive reviews over at Smashwords. See:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/3697
For a longer review which explains in… (más)
This is an excellent - if rather quirky - comic novel. I particularly liked the deadpan humour but the author also manages to make his central character, Gordy, sufficiently likeable (despite his many, many faults) that you care what happens to him – which is not always a given in fiction of this type. But don't just take my word for it - this book has garnered a clutch of positive reviews over at Smashwords. See:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/3697
For a longer review which explains in a bit more detail (possibly too much detail for some....) why I liked it, see: http://www.paulsamael.com/blog/besserwisser
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