Description
Temporarily out of stock
Title: Kraft
Author: LUSCHER JONAS/LEWIS TESS
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 04/01/2021
Imprint: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX
Price: $45.00
Publishing status: Active
Richard Kraft, a German professor of rhetoric, and an aging Reaganite and <i>A-Team </i>fan, is unhappily married and badly in debt. He sees no way out of his rut until he is invited to participate in a competition to be held in California that is sponsored by a Silicon Valley tycoon and "techno-optimist." The contest is to answer a literal "million-dollar question": each competitor must compose an eighteen-minute lecture on why our world is still, despite all evidence, <i>the best of all possible worlds</i>, and how we might improve it even further.
Entering into a surreal American landscape, Kraft soon finds what's left of his life falling to pieces as he struggles to justify as "best" a planet ruled by the hands of such blithe neoliberal cupidity as he encounters on his odyssey to California. Still, with the prize money, perhaps he could finally buy his way to a new life . . . But what contortions—physical and philosophical—will he have to subject himself to in order to claim it?
Jonas Lüscher's second novel, <i>Kraft</i>, is a hilarious and wicked tale about a man facing the ruins of his life, and his world.
ISBN: 9780374182144
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 208mm X 135mm
Pages: 224