Plan B
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- 11,99 €
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- 11,99 €
Publisher Description
Bens kompisgäng lämnade college med storslagna drömmar. Nu ska de fylla 30, och inget har blivit som de tänkt sig. Ben ska skilja sig, Lindsey är arbetslös, Chuck är fortfarande en clown och Alison är olyckligt kär i samma kille. Den femte personen i gänget, Jack, är visserligen en hyllad filmstjärna, men med ett kokainberoende, vilket vännerna bestämmer sig för att ta på allvar. När deras intervention misslyckas, formas plan B: en kidnappning.
Jonathan Troppers debutroman utkom i USA år 2000 och handlar om ett kompisgäng i kollektiv trettioårskris. Mellan rappa dialoger och haglande filmreferenser skildras obrytbara vänskapsband och kärlek som aldrig rostar, hur många tårar som än spills på den.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The title of Tropper's debut novel refers to the madcap plot at its center, and also to one of the book's primary themes--that life rarely works according to plan. Nobody knows this better than Ben, the narrator, who wants to be a novelist, but finds himself at age 30 stuck in a low-level publishing job in New York City, on the cusp of a sad and bloodless divorce, and envious of his closest college friends: Lindsey, the spirited ex-girlfriend who's always followed her heart; attorney Alison; surgeon Chuck; and movie star Jack Shaw, who earns $13 million a picture. But Jack, it turns out, is also a cocaine addict whose drug-fueled escapades are increasingly finding their way into the tabloids. When an intervention attempt fails, his friends turn to Plan B: they kidnap Jack and keep him captive in the Catskills until he shakes his habit for good. Of course, holding a mega-celebrity against his will is no simple matter, and complications abound. Jack turns violent, then vanishes, the local-yokel sheriff's department starts poking around and soon enough the FBI and the media are involved. Meanwhile, the remaining friends are forging new bonds (platonic and otherwise) and confronting encroaching fears of aging. Despite Ben's exaggerated Gen-X voice--by turns jaded and facile, glib and bleak--the picaresque plot is diverting in a sitcom kind of way. The characters are unlikely as friends but entertaining as Friends, and Tropper keeps the story moving at a brisk pace with crackling TV dialogue.
