Bøger af Richard Katrovas

"Mystic Pig, is as wild, dangerous and spicy as the city it celebrates." - Valerie MartinCould a secret destroy you?An old, all-consuming secret?One of love born in passion - but cemented in murder?In the kaleidoscopic melting-pot of New Orleans' French Quarter, Nat runs his restaurant, loves his family, struggles with his lost childhood and carries the secret that threatens to overwhelm him.Whip-smart Willie, skidding through adolescence with a little skill and a lot of luck, reveals another secret in an old poet's epic poem The Mystic Pig. One from his past that has a bearing on his whole future.Two strangers on a path of self-discovery. Thrown together in a murky and dubious world of half-truths, colourful characters and - secret lives.Can honesty and true friendship result in redemption for one and freedom for the other? Or will the sacrifices entailed ruin everything beyond repair?Humor and heartache abound in this fascinating exploration of love and family in modern America.You'll enjoy this page-turner if you love gripping prose and vibrant, real characters. Get ready to be sucked into NOLA's heady, unique mix of life, love, music and food!Grab your copy today!"From page one, this is a novel you want to take your time with." - Frederick Barthelme

"The Woman with a Cat on Her Shoulder is a gathering of "punk formalist" lyrics that collectively are a meditation not on mortality so much as on the terror of extinction, how that terror is the reservoir of love. Katrovas declaims from the margins of faith, the cliff edge of doubt, seeking to measure the conductivity of private troubles to public issues. Katrovas' "riffs" are verse essays jotted in the antechambers of nightmares and erotic dreams"--

Drawing on his adulthood in academe, Richard Katrovas's memoir in essays chronicles a quest to locate surrogate fathers among older poets and other creative writers, and reflects upon the ways in which that search has affected his role as the father to three Czech American daughters.

A collection of selected poems by Richard Katrovas.

A collection of poetic choral lyrics by Richard Katrovas.

A provocative collection of personal and political essays by an American writer, Raising Girls in Bohemia chronicles the life of a father raising three perfectly bilingual, culturally bifurcated, Czech-American daughters. While tracing what fatherhood has taught him about the world, Katrovas delves into a range of intricately related yet far-flung subjects including fine dining, sexual epithets, gender identity, racism, poetry, and education, tracing the contours of his ignorance about all things. Through the course of these fine essays, Katrovas unveils what it means to be an American and to be a man, and especially what it means to be a father of three daughters, born in Prague, in what we can only hope is the twilight of patriarchy.