商品簡介
Chester "Chet" Patterson, the protagonist narrator of Kermit Moyer`s novel, is an Army brat who grows up in the 1950s and comes of age in the 1960s. He has a high-strung knockout of a mother who may be drinking her way into alcoholism, an Army-officer father he both resents and admires, and a younger sister whose high-school popularity he can only envy. Moving every two or three years, Chester is a perennial "new kid" as well as a bookish and movie-besotted romantic who at the age of 13 falls in love, he thinks, with his own first cousin, Frenchie, a 17-year-old "older woman." Each chapter is a discrete story that chronicles a pivotal moment in Chester`s life, taking him a little deeper into himself as well as a little farther into the century, in settings that vary from the Far East to the Wild West and during a time that includes the birth of rock `n' roll, the Civil Rights Movement, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
作者簡介
The New York Times Book Review called Kermit Moyer`s first collection of stories, Tumbling, "a work of ringing authenticity" and called the author "an impressive new voice," and Publishers Weekly praised Moyer`s writing as "controlled and powerful and distinguished by a rare poetic ability." An emeritus professor of literature from American University in Washington, DC, Mr. Moyer lives on Cape Cod with his wife Amy and their dog Zora.
