Journeyman: a novel
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Berkeley, CA : Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint, 2017.
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247 pages ; 22 cm
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FICTION Bojanowski, M.
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From the author of The Dogfighter, hailed by Geoff Dyer as the most exciting debut
by an American writer since Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides,” comes Journeyman, a tightly wound novel about dwelling, building, belonging, love, and the value of a place to call home. Nolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and a wanderer by nature. Set in 2007, while fellow Americans fight in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Nolan builds tract homes across California, travelling between jobs. Following a shocking workplace accident in his temporary home of Las Vegas, he uproots himself from the tentative relationships he has made and heads west towards the ocean.
On his way he passes through his brother's town where circumstances force him to stay put. Bereft of his trailer and his tools, Nolan turns to the task of building the foundations of a meaningful life. The specter of war and questions of the Western-film notions of masculinity are woven throughout the novel; from the damage to Nolan’s family by the Vietnam War in which his father fought, to the ubiquity and consequence of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to slow unraveling of his brother’s marriage and mental state, to the mysterious series of arsons being set around their small town.
Ultimately, Journeyman is an important, timely novel about men and brothers finding their way in the 21st century West.
On his way he passes through his brother's town where circumstances force him to stay put. Bereft of his trailer and his tools, Nolan turns to the task of building the foundations of a meaningful life. The specter of war and questions of the Western-film notions of masculinity are woven throughout the novel; from the damage to Nolan’s family by the Vietnam War in which his father fought, to the ubiquity and consequence of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to slow unraveling of his brother’s marriage and mental state, to the mysterious series of arsons being set around their small town.
Ultimately, Journeyman is an important, timely novel about men and brothers finding their way in the 21st century West.
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English
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9781593766610
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Bojanowski, M. (2017). Journeyman: a novel. Berkeley, CA, Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Bojanowski, Marc. 2017. Journeyman: A Novel. Berkeley, CA, Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Bojanowski, Marc, Journeyman: A Novel. Berkeley, CA, Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Bojanowski, Marc. Journeyman: A Novel. Berkeley, CA, Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint, 2017.
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