You Don´t Have to Live Like This (eBook, ePUB)
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Partner: | buecher.de |
Hersteller: | HarperCollins (Markovits, Benjamin) |
Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
A frighteningly prescient novel of today´s America—one man´s story of a racially charged real estate experiment in Detroit, Michigan. "You get in the habit of living a certain kind of life, you keep going in a certain direction, but most of the pressure on you is just momentum. As soon as you stop the momentum goes away. It´s easier than people think to walk out on things, I mean things like cities, leases, relationships and jobs." Greg Marnier, Marny to his friends, leaves a job he doesn´t much like and moves to Detroit, Michigan in 2009, where an old friend has a big idea about real estate and the revitalization of a once great American city. Once there, he gets involved in a fist-fight between two of his friends, a racially charged trial, an act of vigilante justice, a love affair with a local high school teacher, and a game of three-on-three basketball with the President—not to mention the money-soaked real estate project itself, cut out of 600 acres...
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