In this Book
- Wanted: Elevator Man
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Northern Illinois University Press
summary
Balladeer of the city’s broken and forgotten men, Joseph G. Peterson looks for inspiration in urban side streets and alleys, where crooked schemes are hatched, where lives end violently, and where pretty much everyone is up to no good. Depicting the lives of people who have woefully lost their way in the world—criminals and victims, the unemployed and unemployable, the neglected and the indigent, the lonely and the alone—Peterson nonetheless brings a poet’s touch to his work, which is redolent with allegory, allusion, and Nabokovian wordplay. His last novel, Beautiful Piece, garnered praise from across the literary spectrum. Enter Wanted: Elevator Man, his powerful and ambitious new novel and the story of Eliot Barnes Jr., a man at the end of his proverbial rope.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9781609090562
Related ISBN(s)
9780875806778
MARC Record
OCLC
868220493
Pages
184
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No