'Viviamo in acqua' è un piccolo trattato di sopravvivenza quotidiana inscenato nei sobborghi di un'America irrancidita, infestata da una panoplia di ragazzini molesti, ladri di bmx e alcolizzati all'ultimo stadio. I suoi protagonisti sono truffatori che fingendosi di Greenpeace gabbano i colletti bianchi pieni di sensi di colpa, giornalisti che si vendicano della ex manipolandole l'oroscopo, barboni in cerca di qualche spiccio per comprarsi l'ultimo Harry Potter. Sono recidivi della vita, gente abituata a deludere le aspettative per quanto basse possano essere, padri dal cuore spezzato che vedono sfilare dinnanzi a sé una lunga carrellata di occasioni perse, uomini in cerca di redenzione che falliscono, e falliscono di nuovo, stavolta meglio. Tutti membri di una comunità «troppo povera, troppo bianca, troppo ignorante». Qual è la loro versione dei fatti? Non c'è nessuna verità né la parvenza di un'agnizione che sistemi le cose e ci faccia tirare un sospiro di sollievo procrastinando l'inevitabile. In compenso «ci sono mondi interi sotto quella superficie». Magari noi non riusciamo a vedere nulla sotto le increspature dell'acqua, ma Walter sì. Abulie, dipendenze e un certo rammaricato cinismo animano una scrittura senza epifanie consolatorie, pungente di ironia e gravida di calor bianco, in cui l'umanità finalmente emerge da sott'acqua con una consapevolezza amara, ma insperata e nuova. O nuoti o affoghi.

SCHONE RUINEN - WALTER JESS - Random Germania

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Com'è possibile che un brillante giornalista economico quarantaseienne, stimato padre di famiglia, si ritrovi a fumare erba di notte fuori da un 7-Eleven con dei giovani sballati? E che decida di darsi allo spaccio insieme ai suoi nuovi amici, cacciandosi in un mare di guai? Tutto inizia con un brillante progetto di qualche mese prima: aprire poetfolio.com, un sito di consigli finanziari in versi, era parsa l'idea del secolo a Matt Prior, che per lanciarsi in questa nuova avventura non aveva esitato a licenziarsi dal giornale per cui lavorava. Il sito però non è decollato, e Matt non ha nessuna speranza di trovare un altro impiego. Ma c'è da pagare il mutuo sulla casa, che rischia di finire in mano alla banca, c'è la retta per la scuola privata dei figli, c'è da occuparsi del vecchio padre che si è fatto mangiare tutto da una spogliarellista ed è convinto di essere ancora negli anni Settanta. E soprattutto c'è da riconquistare l'avvenente moglie Lisa, che passa le sue giornate su Facebook, a chattare con il fidanzato delle superiori, il principe Chuck Celoduro, proprietario dell'avviatissimo Reame del Legname, paradiso del fai-da-te. Forse spacciare erba potrebbe davvero essere una soluzione, peccato che Matt sia - e rimanga - un sognatore, un poeta, incapace di adeguarsi alle asprezze della vita...

What happens when small-time reporter Matthew Prior quits his job to gamble everything on a quixotic notion: a Web site devoted to financial journalism in the form of blank verse? Before long, he wakes up to find himself jobless, hobbled with debt, spying on his wife's online flirtation, and six days away from losing his home. . . . Until, one night on a desperate two a.m. run to 7-Eleven, he falls in with some local stoners, and they end up hatching the biggest?and most misbegotten?plan yet.

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In the winning and utterly original novels Citizen Vince and The Zero, Jess Walter ('a ridiculously talented writer'—New York Times) painted an America all his own: a land of real, flawed, and deeply human characters coping with the anxieties of their times. Now, in his warmest, funniest, and best novel yet, Walter offers a story as real as our own lives: a tale of overstretched accounts, misbegotten schemes, and domestic dreams deferred.

A few years ago, small-time finance journalist Matthew Prior quit his day job to gamble everything on a quixotic notion: a Web site devoted to financial journalism in the form of blank verse. When his big idea—and his wife's eBay resale business— ends with a whimper (and a garage full of unwanted figurines), they borrow and borrow, whistling past the graveyard of their uncertain dreams. One morning Matt wakes up to find himself jobless, hobbled with debt, spying on his wife's online flirtation, and six days away from losing his home. Is this really how things were supposed to end up for me, he wonders: staying up all night worried, driving to 7-Eleven in the middle of the night to get milk for his boys, and falling in with two local degenerates after they offer him a hit of high-grade marijuana?

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Following Matt in his weeklong quest to save his marriage, his sanity, and his dreams, The Financial Lives of the Poets is a hysterical, heartfelt novel about how we can reach the edge of ruin—and how we can begin to make our way back.

During a routine drug bust, on a narrow bridge over white-water falls in the center of town, Spokane detective Caroline Mabry finds herself face-to-face with a brutal murderer. Within hours, the body of a young prostitute is found on the riverbank nearby. What follows confronts our fascination with pathology and murder and stares it down, as Caroline and her cynical partner, Alan Dupree—thrown headlong into the search for a serial murderer who communicates by killing women—uncover some hard truths about their profession . . . and each other.

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While working the weekend night shift, Caroline Mabry, a weary Spokane police detective, encounters a seemingly unstable but charming derelict who tells her, 'I'd like to confess.' But he insists on writing out his statement in longhand. In the forty-eight hours that follow, the stranger confesses to not just a crime but an entire life—spinning a wry and haunting tale of youth and adulthood, of obsession and revenge, and of two men's intertwined lives.

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Gli anni Sessanta furono anni di turbolente scoperte documentate da molti, tuttavia la collezione fotografica dell'attore, artista, regista Dennis Hopper non ha uguali. Oggi è riconosciuto come un'indiscutibile icona del periodo e ha saputo catturare con occhio intuitivo i tratti caratteristici della sua generazione. All'apice di un grande cambiamento culturale Hopper ha immortalato Tina Turner in studio, Andy Warhol durante il suo primo show, Paul Newman sul set e Martin Luther King durante la marcia per i diritti civili da Selma a Montgomery. Questo volume raccoglie le fotografie dell'archivio personale di Dennis Hopper. Con il suo stile personale Hopper ha fotografato artisti, politici e poeti del suo tempo che sono stati protagonisti di questo incredibile periodo. Si tratta di una collezione che è una sorta di narrazione. La sua partecipazione a grandi film quali Il gigante lo ha messo in contatto anche con le celebrità più famose. La sua forza espressiva e la sua intensità sono già presenti in queste foto, la stessa forza e la stessa intensità che troveremo poi in Easy Rider e oltre.

At 1:59 a.m. in Spokane, Washington—eight days before the 1980 presidential election—Vince Camden pockets his stash of stolen credit cards and drops by an all-night poker game before heading to his witness-protection job dusting crullers at Donut Make You Hungry. Along with a neurotic hooker girlfriend, this is the total sum of Vince's new life. But when a familiar face shows up in town, Vince realizes his sordid past is still too close behind him. During the next unforgettable week, he'll negotiate a coast-to-coast maze of obsessive cops, eager politicians, and assorted mobsters—only to find that redemption might exist, of all places, in the voting booth.

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