Hank now finds himself paralyzed by past misfortunes and haunted by nightmares of a car crash that ended a friend's life back in California ("I remember the last time I saw Rich and I remember his face as we flipped through the air and he looked into my eyes. You feel useful, you have friends and your parents love you. It's not the life you expected, but it's nice enough for you. You're a good guy, you're tough and you have a reputation in your neighborhood for helping people out. She left fairly quickly, though, and Hank stayed, eventually settling into an unassuming life that swallowed him whole. He started hanging out with a different crowd and got into "some trouble." After six years of trying college with no degree to show for it, Hank went to New York City with a girlfriend.
He's a former high-school baseball prodigy, whose all-but-given major-league career ended with a hard slide into third base and a resulting broken leg. In Charlie Huston 's fast-paced debut novel, Caught Stealing, Henry "Hank" Thompson is a displaced Californian living on Manhattan's Lower East Side in the year 2000.
0 kommentar(er)
