Till the Wheels Fall Off
- Schrijver: Brad Zellar (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Coffee House Press
- Verschijnt: 12 juli 2022
- Omvang: 328 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
- Recensie van Tim Donker: Dat einde, o god dat einde, ik las het met kippenvel over mijn hele lijf en tranen in mijn ogen en ik weet dat het zemig is en zoet en dat het er helemaal overheen is, over wat, over de top ofzo, nee over de hele godvergemese heuvel heen, sentimentalistisch, weetikveel, maar het werkte, ik las het bijna zonder te ademen, ik vond het prachtig, dan maar een sentimentele dwaas oké?…lees verder >
Flaptekst van de roman van Brad Zellar
From roller rinks and record players to coin-operated condom dispensers and small-town mobsters, Till the Wheels Fall Off is a novel about an unconventional childhood among the pleasures and privations of the pre-digital era.
It’s the late 1980s, and Matthew Carnap is awake most nights, afflicted by a potent combination of insomnia and undiagnosed ADHD. Sometimes he gazes out his bedroom window into the dark; sometimes he wanders the streets of his small southern Minnesota town. But more often than not, he crosses the hall into his stepfather Russ’s roller rink to spend the sleepless hours lost in music. Russ’s record collection is as eclectic as it is extensive, and he and Matthew bond over discovering new tunes and spinning perfect skate mixes. Then Matthew’s mother divorces Russ; they move; the roller rink closes; the twenty-first century arrives. Years later, an isolated, restless Matthew moves back to his hometown. From an unusual apartment in the pressbox of the high school football stadium, he searches his memories, looking for something that might reconnect him with Russ.
With humor and empathy, Brad Zellar (House of Coates) returns with a discursive, lo-fi novel about rural Midwestern life, nostalgia, neurodiversity, masculinity, and familywith a built-in soundtrack.