The breaks

R$ 132,90

Sinopse

Peter Keller, first college grad from a working-class Yonkers family, thought he was on the road to success. Until no law school wanted him. As he watches his friends advance into promising careers, he jumps from job to job---mail clerk, phone solicitor, stand-up comic---until he breaks down and starts phoning in bomb threats on his own house. He’s going to have to work hard to change the pattern of self-sabotage that has defined most of his life. And taking that job at his alma mater as a teacher of freshman comp and starting an affair with a violently psychotic ex-wife of a colleague probably won’t help matters. Richard Price’s brilliant comic novel is a classic tale of a young man trying to find his place in the world.

Participantes

Autor: Richard Price

Autor

RICHARD PRICE

Richard Price (1949, Nova York) é escritor e roteirista. The Wanderers (1974), seu primeiro romance, baseado na infância no Bronx, foi adaptado e dirigido por Philip Kaufman, de "A insustentável leveza do ser" (1988). Desde então, escreveu roteiros para filmes como O preço da coragem (1996) e a série televisiva A escuta (2004). Teve parceria bem-sucedida com o diretor Martin Scorsese em duas ocasiões: no longa "A cor do dinheiro" (1986) e no videoclipe "Bad" (1995), de Michael Jackson, dos quais assinou o roteiro. Um de seus romances mais conhecidos é Clockers (1992), que virou filme do diretor Spike Lee e foi indicado ao Oscar. Escreveu ainda o aclamado Lush Life (2008).