Wie Jean-Philippe Blondel es geschafft hat, mit einem Schicksal weiterzuleben, das kein Schriftsteller seinem Helden zumuten würde, davon berichtet er aus dem Abstand von zweieinhalb Jahrzehnten. Mit unerhörter französischer Leichtigkeit und heilsamem Humor erzählt der Autor hier seine eigene Geschichte die Geschichte einer Reise, die ihn gerettet hat: aufrichtig, schonungslos, ohne falsches Pathos und mit dem Trost, der im Leben selbst liegt.

Life turns into advanced for Simon – a fundamentalist preacher and marriage information counsellor – whilst he realises in among adulterous affairs that he's, in reality, an atheist. From his dingy place of work in Kings go, from the pulpit, and from the beds of his fanatics, Simon sorrowfully observes the hypocrisies and corruption of the worlds that he inhabits. and occasionally he embraces them.

Raunchy and blasphemous, provocative and humorous, Falling Backwards follows Simon from his flock at Sunday college to his ministry within the brothels of Kings pass, and asks us to wonder if Simon is probably not anything of a saint after all.

James Quinn lives in Sydney, Australia. Falling Backwards is his first novel.

"Through the twenty first Century taking a look Glass" - united states at the present time via Grady Harp
"Mel Mathews is a delicate observer of the human , with an emphasis at the Male Human of our time. He has created a personality in Malcolm Clay that could be a child boomer Holden Caulfield, a version on John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom, and he manages to take us through the hand and lead us throughout the bumpy terrain of present interpersonal relationships in addition to a person writing today.

"We first met Malcolm Clay in Mathew's first novel 'LeRoi' as a center elderly guy trapped in a profitable yet uninteresting profession who turns into stranded in a dusty little truck cease the place he's pressured to gradual his velocity to regulate to the fertile characters he created there. good, now Malcolm resides in Carmel, California, having been divorced, forgoing his early life entrapping non secular background, traipsing via many short and bodily orientated affairs whereas identifying to alter his lifestyles as an alcoholic tractor salesman to that of a reformed AA author ('..he did not imagine a person may be known as an addict, alcoholic, codependent, or the other of the pathologized medical prognosis that propelled someone into one other lie'). His lifestyles is populated during this attractive beach zone of California through all demeanour of ladies and males whose connection to lifestyles is thru tenuous strings tied to quite shallow buoys. many of the novel is conversational, with Malcolm getting to know the intrinsic character defects of characters starting from his landlady Mrs. Shams to males at the make to actual therapist Jenny who manages to maintain a actual distance among the lusty yet managed Malcolm and her fragile, purging vitamin, Zen-like self.

This is a trip so good written that the unconventional demands pause to benefit from the sheer ebullience of the verbiage. Mel Mathews is an outstanding author, discovering his means via existence in those occasions. he's a competent significant other at the trek all of us are taking. And now directly to the following quantity within the sequence, 'SamSara', addictively! Grady Harp, April 07"

On retrouve ici l’imagination retorse de Franz Bartelt, sa verve anarchisante et son kind impeccable, pour los angeles plus grande hilarité du lecteur.

Eine fesselnde Geschichte um die Macht der Fantasie, um Wahrheit und Freiheit, Erleuchtung, Verwandlung und Neubeginn, intercourse und große Gefühle.

Mit pace und Tiefgang. Und einer Messerspitze Humor.

Thomas is familiar with there's something he must say to his mom earlier than she dies. yet will he achieve her in time? and should he have the braveness to assert what he couldn’t say ahead of? His cell is humming, his brain is racing, and he can’t pay attention to the importance of what's taking place. may still he attempt to remedy his friend’s kinfolk situation? may still he reassess his separation from his spouse? Why does he believe so completely careworn and paralysed?

In his such a lot exhilarating ebook up to now, Tim Parks explores how profoundly our current id is rooted in our family members previous. do we ever quite change?

Mit Wärme und Humor erzählt Helle Helle von Lebenskrisen und dem ungewöhnlichen Zusammenleben von Bente, John und Putte - und von der Schwierigkeit, die Vergangenheit hinter sich zu lassen …