by Paula Fox · DTV Deutscher Taschenbuch · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9783423134385
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«Pech für George» is Paula Fox's novel, published by DTV Deutscher Taschenbuch in paperback (253 pages, in German).
George, a teacher at a private school in Manhattan, lives with Emma in a marriage dulled by routine. When George catches Ernest, a teenage neighbor, in his house, he decides to take charge of his education. That relationship, which Emma views with suspicion, unsettles their domestic life and portrays the dissatisfaction of the American middle class in the sixties.
The novel was originally published in English as Poor George; this German edition, translated by Susanne Röckel, appeared in 2006.
Of interest to readers with a command of German who appreciate literary fiction and American classics.
Paula Fox was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. Fox won the Newbery Medal in 1974 for her novel The Slave Dancer. She also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978 and won a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart. In the mid-1990s, she enjoyed a revival as her adult fiction was championed by a new generation of American writers. In 2011, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
