Podivuhodný život Augusta Marche – Jackson Aaron (2023)

Brilliant, razor-sharp debut by Aaron Jackson—sure to be appreciated by readers of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button or The World According to Garp—brings a classic story of a naive boy searching for his own path and reminds us that love is waiting for everyone somewhere. August March is, without exaggeration, a child of the theater. He was born in a Broadway theater dressing room during intermission, shortly after his mother delivered a gripping monologue for the first act. The fact that the boy survived his childhood can be considered a stroke of luck, as the old woman who took him in was hardly mother of the year. He survived by scavenging what he found in the theater; his teachers were Wilde, Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Shaw, and he could recite Richard II by heart before he learned the alphabet... And he never visited the world outside. But every performance must come to an end. The theater fades away, and the still innocent and truly unworldly August finds himself on the streets of post-war New York. In an unfamiliar labyrinth, he must fend for himself until his dramatic talent catapults him onto a path of crime. As he struggles to survive, he loses his former naivety. He fights for a place in the sun with the audacity of a private school brat, cleverly and wittily escaping even the most absurd situations, never losing his ironic...