Panorama City by Antoine Wilson
With its blend of fool's wisdom and deeply felt humanity, Panorama City is heir to Marilynne Robinson's Gilead and Steve Martin's The Jerk. From his deathbed*, twenty-eight-year-old Oppen Porter--an openhearted, bicycle-riding, binocular-toting, self-described slow absorber--unspools into a cassette recorder his tale of self-determination, from village idiot to man of the world, for the benefit of his unborn son. Told in an astonishingly charming and wise voice, Oppen's account traces forty days and nights navigating the fast-food joints, storefront churches, and home-office psychologists of the San Fernando Valley. Ping-ponging between his watchful, sharp-tongued aunt and an outlaw philosopher with the face of a newly hatched crocodile, Oppen finds himself constantly in the sights of people who believe that their way is the only way for him. Oppen Porter is an American original (Stewart O'Nan) for whom finding one's own way is both a delightful art and a painstaking science. Disarmingly funny and surreptitiously moving, Panorama City makes us see the world, and our place in it, with new eyes. *Not really
W. E. BUTLER Professor of Comparative Law, University of London, UK BHAVNA DAVE Lecturer in Central Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK MARTIN DEWHIRST Glasgow University, UK PETER J. S. DUNCAN Senior Lecturer in Russian Politics and Society, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK SHEILA FITZPATRICK Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Russian History, University of Chicago, USA VLADIMIR GEL'MAN Lecturer in Russian Politics, European University of St Petersburg, Russia PHILIP HANSON Professor of the Political Economy of Russia and Eastern Europe, University of Birmingham (retired) ALENA LEDENEVA Reader in Russian Politics, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK DOV LYNCH Lecturer in War Studies, King's College, London, UK VERA TOLZ Professor of Contemporary Russian History, University of Salford, UK JANINE WEDEL Associate Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, USA
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| ISBN 13 | 9780547875125 |
| ISBN 10 | 0547875126 |
| Title | Panorama City |
| Author | Antoine Wilson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
| Year published | 2012-09-25 |
| Number of pages | 292 |
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