Günther Danehl Boeken

Roman, spelend op een Amerikaanse luchtmachtbasis tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, waarin felle kritiek wordt geuit op de absurditeit van de oorlog en het militarisme.

In een combinatie van bijbelse taal en Amerikaans slang wordt verhaald over David, Koning der Joden die op zijn sterfbed ligt en mijmert over zijn leven en over de wereld.

The story traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student of philosophy who is uninvolved in politics or protest. Against his will he finds himself caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing directed against the Tsarist authorities. He is pulled in different directions - by his conscience and his ambitions, by powerful opposed political forces, but most of all by personal emotions he is unable to suppress.

Bruce Gold, a middle-aged, Jewish professor of English literature, finds himself on the brink of a golden career in politics -- and not a moment too soon, as Gold yearns for an opportunity to transform a less-than-picture-perfect life: His children think little of him, his intimidating father endlessly bullies him, and his wife is so oblivious that she doesn't even notice he's left her. As funny as it is sad, Good as Gold is a story of children grown up, parents grown old, and friends and lovers grown apart -- a story that is inimitably Heller.