Harry Trellman n''a pas sa place. Ni dans l''orphelinat de Chicago où sa mère l''envoie, ni à l''université, ni même dans la rue. Certes il a des attaches, mais elles sont, comme sa vie, singulières
A middle-age American millionaire goes to Africa in search of a more meaningful life and receives the adoration of an African tribe that believes he has a gift for rainmaking.
Criat en un orfenat, Harry Trellman, el narrador de L'autèntica, és un home desarrelat, sense vincles forts amb res ni ningú. Darrere la seva figura esquiva s'amaga una ment atenta, ràpida, activa, u
The fictional autobiography of a rumbustious adventurer and poker-player who sets off his native Chicago in the spirit of a latter-day Columbus to rediscover the world-and more especially, twentieth-century America. This expansive comedy of American manners in the tradition of Twain's 'innocent abroad' is a major classic of twentieth-century American literature.
This is the story of Kenneth, who leaves his native Paris for the USA. He also came to be near his uncle, the botanist Benn Crader. But Benn will not stay put. Indian forests, Chinese mountains, Brazilian jungles, the Antartic - he admits that his restlessness has an erotic cause.
Leventhal is a natural victim; a man uncertain of himself, never free from the nagging suspicion that the other guy may be right. So when he meets a down-at-heel stranger in the park one day and finds himself being accused of ruining the man''s life, he half believes it.
