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Joey Goebel | Commonwealth | English Title: Commonwealth<br>Novel, 720 Pages

Novel, Hardcover
720 Pages
Published in March 2009

ISBN 978-3-257-06694-4

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Joey Goebel
Commonwealth

Published by Diogenes as Heartland

What do beer drinkers, wrestling and monster truck fans have to do with big politics in Washington? Answer: everything. For it is their votes that decide who is elected. John Mapother, the son of the most powerful and richest family in the hicktown of Bashford wants to win a seat in the American Congress. The only problem is he doesn’t know the first thing about the world of his voters. But his younger brother Blue Gene, the black sheep of the family, certainly does. A great American novel, highly intelligent and full of wit and melancholy. ›Commonwealth‹ is sold to: Heloïse d’Ormesson (France) Ithaki (Turkey)

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»Funny, mean and outstanding.«Neon

»Joey Goebel’s imaginative novel about the black stains on America’s reputation is like a well-made overlong film by Oliver Stone: getting out of hand, obsessed with detail, clever and popcorncompatible.«Bücher

»Goebel is rightly seen in the USA as a rare talent who is predicted to follow in the footsteps of the very best. For he can do what only great writers can do: brilliantly dealing with the big questions of life while walking the line between exposing wit and touching candidness.«Aachener Zeitung

»›Commonwealth‹ is a devastating blow to the soul of the American people and at the same time a modern classic.«The Gap

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