The Nix

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Издание 2016 года

Автор: Нейтан Хилл

Жанр: Современная русская и зарубежная проза

Размер fb2 файла: 1.82 MB

Объём: 628 страниц

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Аннотация

A hilarious and deeply touching debut novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own.

Meet Samuel Andresen-Anderson: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of an online video game. He hasn’t seen his mother, Faye, since she walked out when he was a child. But then one day there she is, all over the news, throwing rocks at a presidential candidate. The media paints Faye as a militant radical with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother never left her small Iowa town. Which version of his mother is the true one? Determined to solve the puzzle — and finally have something to deliver to his publisher — Samuel decides to capitalize on his mother’s new fame by writing a tell-all biography, a book that will savage her intimately, publicly. But first, he has to locate her; and second, to talk to her without bursting into tears.

As Samuel begins to excavate her history, the story moves from the rural Midwest of the 1960s to New York City during the Great Recession and Occupy Wall Street to the infamous riots at the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention, and finally to Norway, home of the mysterious Nix that his mother told him about as a child. And in these places, Samuel will unexpectedly find that he has to rethink everything he ever knew about his mother — a woman with an epic story of her own, a story she kept hidden from the world.

PROLOGUE. Late Summer 1988
PART ONE. THE PACKER ATTACKER, Late Summer 2011
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PART TWO. GHOSTS OF THE OLD COUNTRY, Late Summer 1988
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PART THREE. ENEMY, OBSTACLE, PUZZLE, TRAP, Late Summer 2011
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PART FOUR. THE HOUSE SPIRIT, Spring 1968
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PART FIVE. A BODY FOR EACH OF US, Summer 2011
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PART SIX. INVASIVE SPECIES, Late Summer 2011
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PART SEVEN. CIRCLE, Late Summer 1968
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PART EIGHT. SEARCH AND SEIZURE, Late Summer 2011
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PART NINE. REVOLUTION, Late Summer 1968
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PART TEN. DELEVERAGING, Late Summer 2011
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
An Alfred A. Knopf Reading Guide The Nix by Nathan Hill
Discussion Questions
Further Reading

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