Writers and Partisans
A History of Literary Radicalism in America
James Gilbert Livres
Cet auteur navigue entre l'histoire et la fiction, explorant l'expérience humaine à travers ses fascinations. Une carrière universitaire précoce s'est concentrée sur l'histoire intellectuelle et culturelle américaine, mais une désillusion face aux contraintes de l'écriture historique l'a conduit à la fiction. Là où l'histoire exige des preuves et des notes de bas de page, la fiction offre la liberté d'imaginer la vie intérieure et les motivations des personnages. Ses romans, souvent ancrés dans l'expérience vécue et la mémoire, explorent des sujets divers, allant de regards satiriques sur la vie de banlieue à des récits mystérieux. À travers ce changement, l'auteur transforme magistralement la réalité en narration imaginative.
The Key Party
- 252pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Four couples discover how far each will go to escape the boredom and routine of their lives.Set in a suburb of Chicago in the 1950s, the story centers around four married couples. The men play golf together at the local country club, and the women play bridge every week. One man reads about the "key party" game in a magazine and shares it with his friends. The idea is that the women put their house keys in a hat, and the men select a key at random; the key each man draws determines which woman he'll have sex with that night.One night while all four couples are together celebrating one couple's anniversary and a lot of drinking is going on, the man suggests that they play the game. Surprisingly, the women agree. No one sleeps with anyone else's wife, but the whole incident causes a lot of friction in the group. Somehow, word gets out in the community about the key party, and all four couples are shunned.
