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Amerika in den 1960er Jahren, die Ära von Eisenhower und McCarthy, aber auch von Ginsberg und Kerouac: Die Beat Generation versucht, sich aus der spießigen Welt ihrer Eltern zu befreien. Der Roman erzählt vom Aufstieg des Intellektuellen Jonathan Asher, der die Aufbruchsstimmung dieser Zeit in seiner Studie "Halbstark" einfängt und dadurch zum Helden einer ganzen Generation wird, im Privaten aber an den eigenen Idealen scheitert: Während er ta...

A congressional adviser and habituE of a cozy circuit of bars inside the Beltway, Joel Lingeman never quite felt middle-aged. At least not until he was abandoned by his partner of fifteen years and suddenly thrust into a dating scene with men half his age and no discernible trace of love handles. But this unexpected hole in his life inspires Joel's search for a 1964 edition ofan "Esquire"-like magazine that contained a swimsuit ad that obsesse...

Jonathan Ascher, a radical writer and cultural hero in the 1960s, has been dead for thirty years. When a would-be biographer approaches his widow, Martha, she delves for the first time into her husband's papers. JD is a brilliant and harrowing view of a half century of the American experiment, acted out on a small stage by three people who cannot find a way to speak their love for one another.