Neu:

31,09 €

Preisangaben inkl. USt. Abhängig von der Lieferadresse kann die USt. an der Kasse variieren. Weitere Informationen.

Lieferung für 1,50 € 18. - 20. Juli. Details

Auf Lager

[{"displayPrice":"31,09 €","priceAmount":31.09,"currencySymbol":"€","integerValue":"31","decimalSeparator":",","fractionalValue":"09","symbolPosition":"right","hasSpace":true,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"PD3kcHm%2FXQIUPRycma4gh%2B0htye28J50ewaqkH00UWTTwYGd4G7PaQgE5RBlW3f927UhS0UCwvIm7wVimcns5IFPk1OW7DXDimAleoNrxj19TE0oQpQeU0kCvpGVlTu2Vv0dwEeRCj86uzcteQguXE1WBI4zhFWSJx4176zLRG4U3Yd5Myeu2g%3D%3D","locale":"de-DE","buyingOptionType":"NEW","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":0}]

31,09 € € () Enthält ausgewählte Optionen. Inklusive erster monatlicher Zahlung und ausgewählter Optionen. Details

Zahlung

Sichere Transaktion

Versand

Speedyhen DE

Verkäufer

Speedyhen DE

Rückgaben

Retournierbar innerhalb von 30 Tagen nach Erhalt

Details

Zahlung

Sichere Transaktion

Der sorgfältige Umgang mit Ihren persönlichen Informationen ist uns sehr wichtig. Unser Zahlungssicherheitssystem verschlüsselt Ihre Daten während der Übertragung. Wir geben Ihre Zahlungsdaten nicht an Dritte weiter und verkaufen Ihre Daten nicht an Dritte. Weitere Informationen

Versand

Speedyhen DE

Verkäufer

Speedyhen DE

Rückgaben

Retournierbar innerhalb von 30 Tagen nach Erhalt

Sie haben Anspruch auf eine volle Rückerstattung für Artikel, die innerhalb von 30 Tagen nach Erhalt im Originalzustand zurückgegeben werden. Für gebrauchte oder beschädigte Rückgaben erhalten Sie möglicherweise eine teilweise oder keine Rückerstattung.

Vollständige Rückgaberichtlinien lesen

Für weitere Informationen, Impressum, AGB und Widerrufsrecht klicke bitte auf den Verkäufernamen..

Möchtest du verkaufen?

Bei Amazon verkaufen

Andere Verkäufer auf Amazon

Hinzugefügt

Nicht hinzugefügt

31,80 €
Kostenlose Lieferung

Verkauft von: Amazon

Bild nicht verfügbar

Keine Abbildung vorhanden für
Farbe:

Herunterladen, um dieses Videos wiederzugeben Flash Player

Dem Autor folgen

Henry Bellamann

Kings Row Taschenbuch – 1. Februar 2022

Englisch Ausgabe von Henry Bellamann (Autor)

4,3 113 Sternebewertungen

Alle Formate und Editionen anzeigen

Preis

Neu ab

Gebraucht ab

Kindle

"Bitte wiederholen"

0,99 €

—

Gebundenes Buch

"Bitte wiederholen"

12,66 €

—

12,66 €

Taschenbuch

"Bitte wiederholen"

31,09 €

—

Kindle
0,99 € Lies mit kostenfreier App
Gebundenes Buch
12,66 €

1 Gebraucht ab 12,66 €
Taschenbuch
31,09 €

8 Neu ab 31,09 €

Möchten Sie Ihre Elektro- und Elektronikgeräte kostenlos recyceln? Mehr erfahren

Kaufoptionen und Plus-Produkte

Insanity. Promiscuity. Incest. Murder. Abuse. The small town of Kings Row has many dark secrets. Parris Mitchell, the sensitive young protagonist of Henry Bellamann's 1940 novel Kings Row, just wants to survive the gossip and violence of small-town life in America at the turn of the twentieth century.

Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe

528 Seiten
Sprache

Englisch
Herausgeber

Hastings College Press
Erscheinungstermin

1. Februar 2022
Abmessungen

13.97 x 3.33 x 21.59 cm
ISBN-10

1942885849
ISBN-13

978-1942885849
Alle Details anzeigen

Produktinformation

Herausgeber ‏ : ‎ Hastings College Press (1. Februar 2022)
Sprache ‏ : ‎ Englisch
Taschenbuch ‏ : ‎ 528 Seiten
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1942885849
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1942885849
Abmessungen ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 3.33 x 21.59 cm

Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 3,742,625 in Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Bücher)
- Nr. 297,592 in Literatur (Bücher)
- Nr. 923,691 in Unterhaltungsliteratur
- Nr. 2,497,325 in Fremdsprachige Bücher

Kundenrezensionen:
4,3 113 Sternebewertungen

Informationen zum Autor

Folge Autoren, um Neuigkeiten zu Veröffentlichungen und verbesserte Empfehlungen zu erhalten.

Henry Bellamann

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Entdecke mehr Bücher des Autors, sieh dir ähnliche Autoren an, lies Autorenblogs und mehr

Kundenrezensionen

4,3 von 5

113 globale Bewertungen

5 Sterne
4 Sterne
3 Sterne
2 Sterne
1 Stern

So funktionieren Kundenrezensionen und -bewertungen

Spitzenrezensionen aus anderen Ländern

Alle Rezensionen ins Deutsche übersetzen

Tom Henderson

Four Stars

Kundenrezension aus Kanada 🇨🇦 am 17. August 2014

Verifizierter Kauf

great book and the condition was better then expected, thanks

Lese weiter

Rezensionen auf Deutsch übersetzen

shopsalot11

So much more than the movie tells

Kundenrezension aus den USA 🇺🇸 am 6. Juli 2023

Verifizierter Kauf

When I saw the movie for the first time, it bowled me over. Reading the book revealed an intensity and depth of thought and insight I had only glimpsed before. Parris’ journey of discovery and revelation about himself and the small town he grew out of is a portrait of what lies within.

Lese weiter

Rezensionen auf Deutsch übersetzen

Robert Russin

A Lost Classic

Kundenrezension aus den USA 🇺🇸 am 5. Oktober 2013

Verifizierter Kauf

"Spring came late in the year 1890, and the fullness of its burgeoning heightened the seasonal disturbance that made unquiet in the blood. "

So begins King's Row, Henry Bellamann's wonderful novel that I am calling a lost American classic. Despite being a critical and commercial success on its release in 1940, leading to a film version with Ronald Reagan two years later, King's Row and the rest of Bellamann's works are largely forgotten today.

This is unfortunate, as King's Row is a novel that should be appreciated both for the skill of its construction and the richness of its ideas. It's an important novel from a cultural and historical context, and there's nothing else quite like it.

At first, King's Row almost seems as if it could pass as just another slice of small town Americana, no more daring or cutting than a Norman Rockwell painting -- a safer and gentler Peyton Place. However, as the story unfolds, it reveals surprising depths of darkness, using beautiful prose to reveal some very ugly truths about the human mind and the civilization that it creates.

There is a lot going on here. Over the course of almost 700 pages, we are given premarital sex (lots of it), mental illness, atheism, incest, sexual abuse, a mad doctor, a sadistic surgeon, and probably most scandalous of all, a same sex kiss! You would think that in 1940 this book would have been banned faster than a gay porn version of Jesus of Nazareth, thus solidifying its permanent place in cultural memory (an amusing fact that book banners never seem to grasp), but somehow it seems to have slipped under the radar.

Bellamann succeeds in creating a town that is believable and compelling, with a large cast of characters that initially seem like quiet players in any American small town. Fairly early on we are given the jarring and incongruous image of a nearby insane asylum that looms over the town both literally and figuratively. It is here that young Parris Mitchell aspires to work as a doctor one day. Parris is coming of age at a time when the field of psychology was in its infancy, and the study of mental illness was a new and exciting (and controversial) field. This clash of science and technology against religion and tradition not only works as a brilliant way of allegorically juxtaposing the coming of age of a generation with the coming of age of an entire nation, but also serves as a fascinating bit of historical fiction.

Contrasting sharply to Parris's quiet and studious nature is his best (and, often, only) friend Drake McHugh, a wild and carefree spirit that balks at the suffocating and narrow-minded restrictions of the day. Drake is probably the most fully realized character in this story, combining a thoughtless vitality with a surprising amount of empathy and concern for others, something not always present in many of fiction's great lovable free spirits. Bellamann uses these characters as a clever and interesting tool to bring us into this world. Through Parris's Apollonian lens we get to see the ideas and thoughts of the day, and through Drake's decidedly Dionysian filter we see actions, and the consequences of balking convention in small town America.

To call this a coming of age tale is to place too narrow a restriction on what is actually a much larger story. Over the span of roughly two decades, we not only see characters grow and change, but we see a town -- and, indeed, a civilization -- going through a painful growth spurt. And, while some of it is expected (we can infer that the story of Parris and Cassandra, with their curiously Homeric names, will end tragically), occasionally there are sharp twists and turns that managed to surprise even me, a very jaded reader (I won't spoil anything, but there are some moments that would have made the likes of Poe and Lovecraft very proud).

This is a very philosophical novel, with some very large ideas and concepts written in prose that is elegant without being stuffy, and informative without being pedantic. There is both naivety and bitterness, beauty and tragedy, gentleness and brutality, and while it is clear that Bellamann himself was frustrated by much of small town society and its narrowness of scope, he presents a balanced enough viewpoint so that the novel doesn't fall into bleak condemnation of an entire culture. This was clearly the work of a brilliant mind, and if there is a flaw here it's that occasionally the characters all seem almost too smart, and have developed too deep an understanding of human nature based on their limited surroundings and experiences. Though, really, this a refreshing critique in light of how seldom one encounters this problem either in fiction or in real life.

Unfortunately, this novel has now gone out of print (I had to order mine from Amazon). If you can find a cheap copy of this book somewhere, I highly recommend picking it up. It's my hope that by talking about this novel as much as possible and (and by being annoying enough about it) that I can help generate enough interest in getting it out into the world once again. It is too beautiful, smart, sad, tragic, and compelling of a story to be lost to antiquity, and showcases a fascinating period of American history that I think we could learn a lot from by studying in 2013. Rating: A

@robrussin

Lese weiter

44 Personen fanden diese Informationen hilfreich

Rezensionen auf Deutsch übersetzen

margaret ribustelli

Book

Kundenrezension aus den USA 🇺🇸 am 8. Juni 2023

Verifizierter Kauf

Book in great shape

Lese weiter

Rezensionen auf Deutsch übersetzen

Anne Rice

Immense, Brilliant, Profound

Kundenrezension aus den USA 🇺🇸 am 1. Juli 2013

Verifizierter Kauf

It was the black and white film that brought me to this book. But after only a few pages in, I realized that this was a rich, beautifully written philosophical novel of immense depth. ------- I rearranged the next few days to read it right through to the last page, finishing at 1:30 a.m. this morning. ----- It is breathtaking. The author's writing is always competent and often absolutely beautiful and mastery as he uses the character of Parris Mitchell the young hero, among others, to talk about life, love, and how we survive in this world in spite of ugliness, loneliness and suffering. ----------- The author is at his best, I think, when he is inside the head of Parris, traveling with Parris around the beautiful countryside surrounding Kings Row as Parris seeks to make sense of his loves and his losses, his heartaches and disappointments, and some time painful discoveries ---- all part of his growing up. Another marvelous character, Father Donovan, is a favorite of the author though he plays no real role in the plot. ---- The prose blazes with beauty whenever Father Donovan is on scene. The author's wisdom and insight dazzles. ---- There are other richly drawn characters, and great contemplative moments, but the finest writing focuses on Parris. ----- There are riches galore in this novel. The descriptions of nature, of hills, fields, trees, skies, streets, weather are poetic and unforgettable. (Henry Bellamann was a widely respected poet before he became a novelist). And there are subtle well drawn scenes of love, sexuality, homosexuality, racism, and cruelty --- as well as a deeply absorbing story of young people growing to maturity in a midwestern town at the turn of the century. The scope of the novel, the way the author seeks to understand the nature of the town and relate it to the nature of all home towns everywhere is highly impressive. ------ This book really should not be out of print. I pray a New York publisher will soon resurrect it, perhaps with an erudite introduction by some contemporary scholar, and make it available for a new readership. It deserves to be enjoyed by a new generation, and perhaps studied in high school and college. There is so much truly beautiful writing here, and such great literary ambition. I hated for the book to end. I've ordered other Bellamann novels, all out of print it seems, and look forward to more insights, more pleasure, more surprises. ---- On the question of the movie: the movie so condenses and sanitizes the book that ultimately it completely betrays the book. Yet somehow, in spite of that the movie captures the beauty and feel of the story. It is true to what the novel says about evil. I like the movie. I admire it for what it accomplishes. But the book is so much more. Don't expect to find the arcs of the movie here in this masterly philosophical and psychological work. Highly recommended.

Lese weiter

171 Personen fanden diese Informationen hilfreich

Rezensionen auf Deutsch übersetzen

Alle Rezensionen anzeigen

Amazon Advertising Kunden finden, gewinnen und binden	Amazon Music Streame Millionen von Songs	AbeBooks Bücher, Kunst & Sammelobjekte	Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing Dienste von Amazon	Audible Hörbücher herunterladen	Book Depository Bücher mit kostenfreier Lieferung weltweit

IMDb Filme, TV & Stars	Kindle Direct Publishing Dein E-Book veröffentlichen	Shopbop Designer Modemarken	Amazon Retourenkauf Reduzierte B-Ware	ZVAB Zentrales Verzeichnis Antiquarischer Bücher und mehr	Amazon Business Mengenrabatte, Business-Preise und mehr. Für Unternehmen.

Neu: 31,09 €

Andere Verkäufer auf Amazon

Dem Autor folgen

Kings Row Taschenbuch – 1. Februar 2022

Kaufoptionen und Plus-Produkte

Produktinformation

Informationen zum Autor

Henry Bellamann

Kundenrezensionen

Spitzenbewertungen aus Deutschland

Spitzenrezensionen aus anderen Ländern

Neu:

31,09 €