Bøger af Peter Rock

An American original, Peter Rock brings our strangest beliefs to vivid and sympathetic life in this haunting novel inspired by true events.

BOOK DESCRIPTIONThe NOVEL you are about to read talks about a young lad who rose from cradle and became the president of his country. His leadership qualities were stirred up by friends and acquaintances unknown to him were directed by the hand of providence to fulfil destiny. The novel showed how his leadership quality started from his high school to his college days even extended to his working days before his journey into politics; it shows us that the people we meet in life do not come by accident. He was groomed from birth to lead his nation someday. His pathway to leadership started by his becoming the student union president of his school and moved over to occupy other leadership positions in college. The book showed obstacles he overcame and how these shaped him in becoming the leader he was, including the death of a loved one. His involvement with a religious cult could have rubbished his destiny if not for his mother. The writer of this book assures readers that you cannot be bored while reading this book. The book showed the preparations he placed on ground before entering into politics, his political fights and strategies he adopted in becoming the number one citizen of his country. His political life started from being a mayor, then moving up the ladder to becoming a senator and then the president of his country. Assassinations attempts that were made on him on his way up the ladder and how he overcame are all in the book.

Alan Johnson is a man ill-at-ease among people and only slightly more comfortable with animals. His story begins in upstate New York with his rescue of an injured Dalmatian who "came down out of the sky and survived the fall, showed me how gradually I have fallen--how I never touch, never really talk to another person...I am hardly a person at all." The dog heals and is returned to its neglectful owner, but Alan Johnson steals it back and heads west in search of what it means to be human.As he crosses the United States, he moves through landscapes full of animals half-tamed and people run wild: a fanatical taxidermist, a lonely woman raising tigers on her remote ranch, a tragic circus chimp named Rufus, contemporary polygamists, and the caretakers of boot camps for troubled youths. They are Carnival Wolves, manifestations of our attempts to tame what is dangerous and wild, distorted reflections of parts of ourselves.After a tortuous journey through various states of depravity--and of America--Alan Johnson ends up in California having reached a reconciliation of instincts and having found a human being he can love. A gripping, hallucinatory read, Carnival Wolves is a provocation, a plea for identification that questions the humanity of its readers and confirms Peter Rock as a unique literary talent.

Now a major film directed by Debra Granik (Winter's Bone), which premiered at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals to critical acclaim.

Populated by strangers, ghosts, and other shadowy figures, the thirteen stories in The Unsettling attend to those startling moments when what we have understood as familiar is suddenly revealed as mysterious and foreign.A lonely man saving library books from an outbreak of mold listens to a coworker's tale about a blind woman and imbues it with his own sense of romance; a woman drives a Gold Firebird through the desert with a television playing "Rockford Files" reruns on the passenger seat; and a girl returns to her childhood home to spy on its new inhabitants, not realizing they are aware of her surveillance; a Poe–obsessed medical examiner constructs ornate scenes in an attempt to provoke hope in the forgotten lives of a dark and desperate city.Told through Rock's imaginative and wholly original voice, these are haunted tales about fascination, transformation, and the relationship between the two.