At the bitter end of the 1960s, after surviving multiple assassination attempts, President John F Kennedy has created a vast federal agency, the Psych Corps, dedicated to maintaining the nation's mental hygiene by any means necessary. This book presents a destabilized, alternate version of American history.
David Means Knihy
David Means je americký autor, jehož povídky často zachycují atmosféru amerického Středozápadu a průmyslových oblastí, ale i života podél řeky Hudson. Jeho díla jsou známá svým pronikavým pohledem na lidskou psychiku a složité mezilidské vztahy. Means mistrně využívá detail a atmosféru k vytvoření působivých literárních obrazů, které rezonují s čtenáři.
The Spot is an old blacksmith shed in which three men tweeze apart the intricacies of a botched bank robbery.The Spot is a park on the Hudson River, where two lovers sense their affair is about to come to an end. The Spot is at the bottom of Niagara Falls, where the body of a young girl floats as if caught in the currents of her own tragic story.The Spot is in the ear of a Manhattan madman plagued by a noisy upstairs neighbor .The Spot is a suburban hospital room in which a young father confronts his son’s potentially devastating diagnosis.The Spot is a dusty encampment in Nebraska where a gang of inept radicals plot a revolution. The Spot draws thirteen new stories together into a masterful collection that shows David Means at his at once comically detached and wrenchingly affecting, expansive and concise, wildly inventive and firmly rooted in tradition. Means’s work has earned him comparisons to Flannery O’Connor ( London Review of Books ), Alice Munro, Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac ( Newsday ), Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson ( Chicago Tribune /NPR), Denis Johnson ( Entertainment Weekly ), Poe, Chekhov, and Carver ( Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ), but the spot he has staked out in the American literary landscape is fully and originally his own.