Beautiful Islands【電子書籍】[ Russell Martin ]

＜p＞Russell Martin's remarkable first novel brings to mind the wonderful early books of Larry McMurtry, wherein the gorgeous but unforgiving landscape of the American West is evoked as powerfully and majestically as the characters who inhabit it.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Martin's narrator is Jack Healy, a decent man struggling to make sense of the cosmos, and to define his place in it. Growing up in Durango, Colorado, the son of an Episcopal priest, Healy dreamed of journeying to space as an astronaut. As ＜em＞Beautiful Islands＜/em＞ begins in 1985, Healy has fulfilled his lifelong ambition, having just returned from a successful space shuttle mission. But there are problems awaiting him back home on terra firma. His marriage has come undone, thanks mostly to the pressures of his career. And his brother, Michael, with whom he was once close, has drifted deeper and deeper into the tortured realm of schizophrenia.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞Beautiful Islands＜/em＞, Jack Healy relates his experiences in the difficult year ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る