Bøger af Roof Alexander

If Bukowski and Flannery O'Connor would have had a child and read it only Raymond Carver for his bedtime stories, then this collection would have been the result. Dark and relevant to this detached generation, They Always Leave shows us the inevitability of everyone we know leaving us in some manner and the tragic comedy of human actions that comes along with it. In the second part of this collection Roof Alexander writes of thieves that can't be put in jail, of the ones who steal pride, hearts, beauty, and reality. These stories evoke the delusions of love, the beauty of destruction, the unreasonable affect of time, and the desire of fame and its cause of irrational behavior. Alexander is able to capture the inner humiliation of youthful naivety while still leaving open the possibility of life. Though the stories deal with seemingly hopeless themes, there is still a narrow ray of sunshine left in between the details for the reader to interpret and take with them after the page has ended.

Have you ever wanted to leave everything you've ever known behind to discover a place in which you truly belong? When Ecclesiastes, a 17-year-old genius of etymology, drops out of high school to leave everything behind for something bigger than the small town and small dreams he grew up on, he finds himself in an uncomfortable and strange wonderland. His life is transformed during this journey when he arrives in Amsterdam and meets Moll and Jouet, both outcasts that also left their homes to find belonging. The threesome form a bond that takes them on an odyssey throughout Europe and America looking for their next fix of experience, whether it's in Venice drug dens, or hustling tourists in Paris, or uncovering secrets about their past in San Francisco. Ecc had never belonged anywhere and this was his chance to search the world for a place to call home. The Regret of Knowing is a coming-of-age novel about the beauty of origin, heartbreak, and discovery.

"We all shared a feeling of hunger, empty bellies, bottomless appetites that when filled, kept us up at night. When we spoke we shouted, all our voices together, a chorus of pleas and protests, rooftop dreams, voices carrying from building to building, no sky scrapers to block them, we all shared a voice, devouring the ears that accepted it, that opened to us. We would be heard. We would dizzily take in those sunrise nights and talk about what it would be like to be heard." To Be Heard is a recollection of a very recent lost time and place, depicting a transitional year in the lives of four young aspiring artists and their rapidly changing neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This is a story about identity and how territory and friends shape who we become.

What is a problem girl? You could ask April-March, but at the age of 16 1/2 years old she can no longer tell you. The only answers she left behind after her death was this document that chronicles the twelve foster homes she grew up in including the last home of the wealthy Rhode Island Oglethorpe family, and the tragic ending in that mansion she thought would be her home forever. What are the choices of constellations? You could ask Maximilian Hearst, but he could only tell you that sometimes you don't have a choice when you're young, free, and in love. A tragedy turns to a life-altering journey where every decision is made in the stars. April-March and Max take these remarkable circumstances and flee through the beaches, jungles, and dangerous cities of Central America. The desperate teenagers flee from country to country, riding on chicken buses and hiding out in seedy hotels while avoiding private investigators and media fame. Then when it seems that their life on the run couldn't get more complicated, a growing secret inside of April-March proves them wrong. Now they must come up with greatest scheme of all if they are to be together. What is Problem Girl and the Choices of Constellations? It's two unlikely friends being thrown together into an unpredictable world, and the beauty of choosing between a long normal life and a short extraordinary life.

It's the summer of 1999, right before the innovation revolution, right before technology surged past romanticism. Moll and Ecc have given away all of their possessions and set off on a journey without destination, trading in progression for freedom in hopes of capturing that one singular moment that gives validation to life, that gives silent answers where answers didn't seem possible before. From the the hills of San Francisco, to the small desert gambling towns of Nevada, to revisiting of old haunts in Boulder and New Orleans, and across all the roads that lead from West to East, the two vagabonds chronicle their drinking and drug-induced soul searching experience. Without knowing that the American landscape and way of life were about to change drastically, two people are taking one last run to say goodbye to everything and everyone, including themselves. The Present Immortality is a story of love and death on the road of America.