Johnny Allan - Softcover

Keller, John M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1945766123 ISBN 13: 9781945766121

Publisher: Dr. Cicero Books, 2019

Synopsis

Alan and Amelia, a British couple in their early thirties, move to Queens, in New York and, in their apartment building, come across Allan, a twentysomething of Guinean roots who quickly becomes for them the exemplar of American youth: aimless, photogenic...looking for meaning in a world that seems to have already happened. After dropping his cell phone and shattering its screen, Allan decides not to replace it, a decision that leads to his beginning to reject some of the things his generation treats as sacred: chiefly, their penchant for “merging self-documentation and experience...having decided they prefer life flat to round.” In the spirit of The Great Gatsby, in Johnny Allan, Keller paints a new portrait of America and a new Lost Generation, a carnival of sensory delights, music, misapprehension and beauty.

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Johnny Allan playlist:youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SV1mFPwJg7ebCwo4F9awQQ3TzlqdzYz

About the Author

John M. Keller is the author of five books of fiction. He has taught writing at the City University of New York; the Universidad de las Américas in Puebla, Mexico; the Universidad de Montevideo, in Uruguay; and St. Xavier's College, in Mumbai, India.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dr. Cicero Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1945766123
• ISBN 13: 9781945766121
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184