Arguably Gordon Lish’s masterpiece,
Peru begins with its narrator announcing, ‘There is nothing which I will not tell you if I can think of it.’ Gradually, the story of a dark childhood secret—real or imagined—unfolds: in 1940, six-year-old Gordon murdered his harelipped rival, Steven Adinoff, in a Long Island sandbox . . . (unless he didn’t).
Peru’s narrator weaves together strands of disconnected, mesmerizing trivia, resurrecting memories of the mundane suburban childhood that spawned a killing: the sense of tedium on an endless summer day; the squishy sounds of a hoe digging into flesh. Ambiguous, complex, inventive, and subversively comic,
Peru is a compendium of unnerving observations about memory, violence, obsession, and the potential horror behind the facade of an ordinary life.
Gordon Lish
Peru [EPUB ebook]
Peru [EPUB ebook]
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 240 ● ISBN 9781564788351 ● File size 0.2 MB ● Publisher Deep Vellum Publishing ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 3178227 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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