T. C Boyle Knihy

Erscheinungsjahr: 2004Nachdr.LehrpersonenGewicht: 216 gr / Abmessung: 30 cmVon Frenken, Wiltrud; Luz, Angela; Prischtt, Brigitte / Von Boyle, T. C.Contents: Die Personen - Der Inhalt - The Author - Vorüberlegungen zum Einsatz des Romans im Unterricht - Klausuren - Konzeption des UnterrichtsmodellsComponent 1: When Worlds Clash: First encounter and clashes between the two worlds - Conflicting points of view towards the immigration issueComponent 2: Cándido''s and América''s Best of all Worlds: Symbolism - América: everybody''s victimComponent 3: When Mexican Dreams Meet US Reality: Delaney''s worries - When Whites and Mexicans meet - The Mexicans'' desperate struggle for happinessComponent 4: Delaney - Racist in a Liberal Skin: The wound refusing to heal - The long way to racism

Walter Van Brunt is a dreamer, and a lover of drugs, alcohol and speed. He likes nothing better than to fly along on his motorbike, invincible and immortal. But one day, dodging a mysterious shadow on the road, he crashes into a barrier and loses his right foot. Walter is a descendant of Dutch yeomen and since the day of the accident he has been haunted by their ghosts. When he receives a new plastic foot he is determined to find his father who deserted his family years ago, and to uncover the secrets of his ancestors.

A dazzlingly written and wickedly sexy read from one of the giants of American contemporary fictions; 'Boyle just gets better and better' (Daily Mail) In 1939, on the campus of Indiana University, a revolution has begun. The stir is caused by Alfred Kinsey, a zoologist who is determined to take sex out of the bedroom. John Milk, a freshman, is enthralled by the professor's daring lectures and over the next two decades becomes Kinsey's right hand man. But Kinsey teaches Milk more than the art of objective enquiry. Behind closed doors, he is a sexual enthusiast of the highest order and as a member of his 'inner circle' of researchers, Milk is called on to participate in experiments that become increasingly uninhibited ...