Karma Incarnate: the Best of Foolkiller - Bryan Gibson - Livres - BookSurge Publishing - 9781419619908 - 23 janvier 2006
Si la couverture et le titre ne correspondent pas, le titre est correct.

Karma Incarnate: the Best of Foolkiller

Bryan Gibson

Prix
₪ 67,52

Commandé depuis un entrepôt distant

Livraison prévue 19 - 28 mai
Ajouter à votre liste de souhaits iMusic

Karma Incarnate: the Best of Foolkiller

A few years ago the comedian Bill Cosby addressed an issue which has long been discussed within the African American community: the responsibility of certain blacks to not behave like stereotypes. Cosby?s outspokenness made public a topic that had mostly been a private one, and the discourse that followed was observed in newspapers and magazines, on radio and television: these featured the thoughts of many who argued for or against Cosby?s statement, and their vehemence?their need to confirm or counter his view?leads us to Bryan Gibson?s first novel, Karma Incarnate: The Best of Foolkiller.

Karma Incarnate is about a man, Joseph Tally, who is slowly losing himself to Alzheimer?s, but before he vanishes completely, he reveals to his son a secret life of shadows and death: ??for thirty years I?ve been a soldier in a secret war, a rogue agent moving stealthily beyond the reach of my government. I changed my name, of course; the name I had no longer suited me: I changed my name, date of birth, and social security number?indeed, Jumoki, I became a new man...but I remained the killer of fools.? Obsessed with James Bond and Friedrich Nietzsche, Tally fuses these obsessions with one more: concern, both for his people and his community, recalling haunting, often violent ?missions? whose goal is the end of harmful stereotypes, and the elimination those of who perpetuate them: ?The kill, no matter its necessity, never brings me joy, nor anything close to it; but I do what I must for the greater good?it is why I am.? Throughout this work, readers will be struggling to determine if what he tells his son is true, or a delusion, an effect of the disease; but whether believed or doubted, the father?s words are a revelation.

Médias Livres     Paperback Book   (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé)
Validé 23 janvier 2006
ISBN13 9781419619908
Éditeurs BookSurge Publishing
Pages 162
Dimensions 200 × 9 × 131 mm   ·   172 g
Langue et grammaire English  

Afficher tout

Plus par Bryan Gibson