Nowhere Man - Hemon Aleksandar - 2004

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242 pages. Multiple copies of this title available. This book is an unread copy. Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Question of Bruno, one of the most celebrated debuts in recent American fiction, returns with the mind- and language-bending adventures of his endearing protagonist Jozef Pronek. This is what we know about Jozef Pronek: He is a young man from Sarajevo who left to visit the United States in 1992, just in time to watch war break out at home on TV. Stranded in the relative comfort of Chicago, he proves himself a charming and frankly perceptive observer of û and participant in û American life. With Nowhere Man, Pronek, accidental urban nomad, gets his own book. Aleksandar Hemon lovingly crafts Pronek into a character who is sure to become an enduring literary icon. From the grand causes of his adolescence û principally, fighting to change the face of rock and roll and, hilariously, struggling to lose his virginity û up through a fleeting encounter with George Bush (the first) in Kiev, to enrollment in a Chicago ESL class and the glorious adventures of minimum-wage living, PronekÆs experiences are at once touchingly familiar and bracingly out-of-the-ordinary. But the story of his life is not so simple as a series of global adventures. Pronek is continually haunted by an unseen observer, his movements chronicled by narrators with dubious motivesûall of which culminates in a final episode that upends many of our assumptions about PronekÆs identity, while illustrating precisely what it means to be a Nowhere Man. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Literature & Literary; 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die; ISBN: 0330393502. ISBN/EAN: 9780330393508. Inventory No: 09050614. By: Hemon Aleksandar Year: 2004 Visit our website to view thousands more products like this and order online at: