New York Times Bestseller: A provocative novel about one man’s struggle with courage and his conscience at the height of McCarthyism. Clement Archer, head of a popular radio show, faces a profound dilemma: Five of his employees stand accused of being communists, and a magazine threatens disclosure unless Archer fires each and every one. Despite his efforts to meet his own moral standards and avoid self-incrimination, Archer finds himself hounded from both ends of the political spectrum for his seemingly righteous actions. The Troubled Air, Irwin Shaw’s second novel, was published immediately before the author moved to Europe, where he lived for the next twenty-five years. The story remains a powerful portrayal of a good, decent man ensnared by the hysteria and cruelty of a dark period in American history. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate. “It has taken a writer as skillfull as Irwin Shaw to capture the personal drama involved in political decisions . . . Norman Mailer tried to deal with the same theme . . . and ended up with no more than a Marxist political tract. Shaw has been much more successful.” —Emmet Dedmon “The Troubled Air is a lively editorial.” —The New York Times “A very readable story . . . that moves one to a very real sympathy.” —The New Yorker [About the Author]: Irwin Shaw (1913–1984) was an acclaimed, award-winning author who grew up in New York City and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934. His first play, Bury the Dead (1936), has become an anti-war classic. He went on to write several more plays, more than a dozen screenplays, two works of nonfiction, dozens of short stories (for which he won two O. Henry awards), and twelve novels, including The Young Lions (1948) and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970). William Goldman, author of Temple of Gold and Marathon Man, says of Shaw: “He is one of the great storytellers and a pleasure to read.” For more about Shaw’s life and work, visit www.irwinshaw.org.
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Irwin Shaw
Irwin Shaw nasceu com o nome de Gilbert Shamforoff no sul do Bronx, Nova Iorque, de judeus russos imigrantes. Seus pais eram Rosa e Will. Seu irmão mais novo, David Shaw (falecido em 2007), tornou-se um famoso produtor de Hollywood. Logo após o nascimento de Irwin, os Shamforoffs mudaram para o Brooklyn. Irwin mudou seu sobrenome após entrar na faculdade. Ele passou a maior parte de sua juventude no Brooklyn, onde se graduou na Brooklyn College com um grau de Bachelor of Arts em 1934. Shaw morreu em Davos, Suíça, em 16 de maio de 1984, aos 71 anos, depois de ser submetido a um tratamento para câncer de próstata.
23 Livros
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Nova York, Estados Unidos da América