Jozsef Kocsis Livres

Un rčit initiatique doubl ̌d'un roman criminel dont le sujet est le blanchiment d'argent de la mafia. Dynamique comme un Ludlum et aussi passionnant qu'un documentaire bien ficel.̌ [SDM].

This novel was placed number 16 in the best novels of the XXth century, and is considered a real american classic. The ambitious but ill-educated and immature Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents who force him to participate in their street missionary work, and on reaching young adulthood takes low-status jobs as a soda jerk and then as a bellhop at a top Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to alcohol and prostitutes, something he starts to enjoy...