Beautiful Country Burn Again (eBook)

Trump's Rise to Power, and the State of the Country that Voted for Him

Ben Fountain (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-78689-201-0 (ISBN)

Infos

As Ben Fountain sees it, the United States is facing its third existential crisis. The first was the struggle over slavery, culminating in the Civil War. The second was the Great Depression, the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialised world, which brought about the New Deal. The third, is Donald Trump. But how will it end?Taking in America's love affair with firearms, celebrity culture, Russia, Obamacare, Hillary Clinton and, of course, Trump himself, Beautiful Country Burn Again explores how the United States reached a new crisis point and asks how America really can be great again.

Autor

Ben Fountain is the author of the acclaimed short-story collection Brief Encounters with Che Guevara and the novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, which won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the 2012 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2012 National Book Award. The film adaptation of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk was directed by Ang Lee. In addition, he has received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction, an O. Henry Award and two Pushcart Prizes. He was also shortlisted for the International Author of the Year Award in 2012. His writing has been published in Harper's, The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story and Stories from the South: The Year's Best, The New York Times and the Guardian among other publications. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

Rezensionen

[Fountain has] a pitch-perfect ear for American talk

Fountain has the storytelling gifts to bring the world home to us and a moral compass set to true north

Fountain writes with sparkle and humour

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2018
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk • Brief Encounters with Che Guevara • Celebrity culture • Donald Trump • Failed States • Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 • Hillary Clinton • Hunter S. Thompson • Joan Didion • Noam Chomsky • obamacare • Political Fictions • US politics
• ISBN-10: 1-78689-201-4 / 1786892014
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78689-201-0 / 9781786892010