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The pelican : a comedy
- Title
- The pelican : a comedy / Martin Michael Driessen ; translated by Jonathan Reeder.
- Author
- Driessen, Martin Michael, 1954-
- Publication
- Seattle : Amazon Crossing, 2019.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFC 20-572 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Reeder, Jonathan
- Description
- 228 pages; 19 cm
- Summary
- "A fearlessly funny tragedy about an improbable friendship, unstable dreams, missed opportunities, and epic coincidence. In a quiet coastal town in Yugoslavia, two men seeking more than the Communist regime can offer find their lives deceitfully entwined. Andrej is a postman in complete denial of his existence. He yearns for respect and fame but commits petty crimes for reasons he doesn't fully comprehend. Josip is an increasingly irrelevant cable car operator and unfaithfully married. Life was so much simpler when neither one knew the other's secrets. Now that they do-discovered quite by accident-each man has resorted to blackmailing the other. As their anonymous misdeeds escalate, a farce of mutual dependency begins. So does the unlikeliest of friendships when Andrej and Josip finally meet face-to-face. In a tale set against the impending Balkan War, Martin Michael Driessen ingeniously explores the foibles of two painfully ordinary men boldly staking their claims on life."--Publisher
- Uniform Title
- Pelikaan. English
- Alternative Title
- Pelikaan.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Note
- Previously published as De pelikaan
- Language (note)
- In English, translated from the Dutch
- Call Number
- JFC 20-572
- ISBN
- 9781542044875
- 1542044871
- 9781542044868
- 1542044863
- LCCN
- 2020301390
- OCLC
- 1101978483
- Author
- Driessen, Martin Michael, 1954- author.
- Title
- The pelican : a comedy / Martin Michael Driessen ; translated by Jonathan Reeder.
- Publisher
- Seattle : Amazon Crossing, 2019.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- In English, translated from the Dutch
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Reeder, Jonathan, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFC 20-572