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    <![CDATA[<strong>An epic novel about family secrets and the consequences of ambition</strong> <br/><br/> William Friedrich, an ambitious professor of psychology at Yale in 1952, has stumbled upon a drug that promises happiness—and that can make him a famous man. When his experiment goes awry, and a research subject commits murder, the consequences will haunt him and his family forever. <br/><br/> <em>Pharmakon</em> is an epic novel, an invocation of the quest for bliss, for love, for family, and all of the betrayals that follow. We follow the Friedrichs from the well-ordered suburban life of postwar America through the chaos and freedom of the counterculture, into the drug-fueled, media-crazed eighties and beyond. In William Friedrich, Wittenborn has defined the archetypal American patriarch: a miracle worker and source of strength to everyone except those he loves the most. <em>Pharmakon</em> is also a layered, thoughtful search behind the veil of psychopharmacology as we know it today—a tale not only of the consequences of research, but also of the complex personalities, appetites, and struggles that created it. <br/><br/> Honest, insightful, and ruefully funny, <em>Pharmakon</em> captures formative moments of the twentieth century, the quirks of an American family, and will enthrall fans of the novels of John Irving.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Dropped into a world more savage than anything in <em>National Geographic</em>, more cutthroat than anything New York's grimy downtown streets have to offer-the exclusive rural community of Vlyvalle, New Jersey-fifteen-year-old Finn Earl and his recovering mother must fight for survival.<br/>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Stick lives in a small town in Texas: she's tall, thin, gawky, and has no ambition or future. Then she meets Nicky who is handsome, sophisticated and introduces her to love and danger. When Nicky is arrested and sent into the army, Stick flees to New York to find him but instead meets a photographer who is determined to make her famous. She changes her name to Zoe and becomes a supermodel sensation, conquering each city her cover-girl image reaches  -  and everyone who meets her falls in love with her. Suddenly Zoe has all the attention, money, fame and drugs a girl could want, but she doesn't have one thing: Nicky. Caught in a whirlwind, it seems as if Zoe will settle for the hollow pleasures of celebrity and glamour, until Nicky reappears, on the run.]]>
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    <![CDATA[ Der vaterlos aufwachsende Finn Earl hat für sein Alter schon einiges gesehen. Sex in all seinen Spielarten ist für den 15-Jährigen dank Moms hoch frequentem und lautstarken Liebesleben längst kein Fremdwort mehr. Liz Earl, alkohol- und heroinsüchtig, ein überkandideltes Hippieüberbleibsel und ihr Spross, ein daueronanierender, schlitzohriger Schwindler, bilden eine perfekte Symbiose. Diese droht zu zerbrechen, als Finn als Drogenbeschaffer seiner Mutter auffliegt und seine reichen Großeltern das erzieherische Heft in die Hand nehmen wollen. Die Polizei tritt auf den Plan -- Mutter und Sohn bleibt nur die Flucht ins Hinterland.<p>  Dieses präsentiert sich als albtraumhafte aber blitzsaubere Kommune Vlyvalle in New Jersey, Enklave und Dauererholungsgebiet einer superreichen Ostküstenschickeria. Eine von Moms zahlreichen Künsten ermöglichte den Unterschlupf in der Villa des greisen Milliardärs Osborne, dem sie als Masseurin tantrische Alterswonnen verschaffte. Auch der pubertierende Finn legt, kaum, dass er die wippenden Brüste von Osbornes Hausmädchen Jilly erspäht hat, alle Fremdheitsgefühle ab.<p>     In Vlyvalle, wo der Dreck unter sauber gestutztem Rasen entsorgt wird, hat Dirk Wittenborn sein Thema gefunden. Am Beispiel der Yanomami, einem wilden Amazonas-Stamm, deren Leben Finns abwesender Ethnologenvater erforscht, zeigt er auf, wo die wahren Wilden hausen. Seziermessergleich legt Wittenborn die fein verwurzelte Welt der amerikanischen Elite frei -- abgeschottet, diskret, skrupellos und sehr weit reichend. In den Vlyvalles Amerikas reift die politische Klasse des Landes heran. Das Paradies wirft jedoch sehr bald schwarze Schatten, als Finn sich in Maya, Osbornes Enkelin verknallt. Die Fassade der heilen Welt bröckelt endgültig, als Finn Opfer einer Vergewaltigung wird. Gegen Ende nimmt Wittenborns Story zusätzlich Fahrt auf und wandelt sich zum veritablen Thriller.<p>  Vor Erotik sprühender, an John Irvings beste Zeiten erinnernder satirischer Entwicklungsroman, dessen Protagonist nicht zufällig den Namen einer der bekanntesten Figuren Mark Twains trägt. Finn Earl hat auf dem Werdegang zum Erwachsensein einiges gelernt: Wie verderblich Geld und Macht sich auswirken können und wie toll echter Sex sein kann. Ein turbulentes, ein begeisterndes Werk! <em>--Ravi Unger</em></p></p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[ Warren Evans ist ein Mann, dem die Frauen vertrauen. Die Models vor seiner Linse jedenfalls offenbaren dem New Yorker Starfotografen ihre intimsten Geheimnisse. &quot;Früher dachte ich, die meisten Modefotografen seien in diese vaginalen Wahrheiten eingeweiht&quot;, heißt es in Dirk Wittenborns neuem Roman <em>Catwalk</em>, &quot;dass die Mädchen, Frauen, Fotzen, Weiber und Schlampen, die für mich posierten, sich meinen männlichen Berufskollegen gegenüber genauso offen verhielten. Aber die Fotografie, das Licht, die Schminke, die Intimität der Studios, die albernen kleinen Dramen, die wir auf endlos vielen pastelligen Papierabzügen inszenierten -- all das hatte nichts mit dem zu tun, was ich erlebte.&quot;<p>  Um es klar zu sagen: Trotz seiner erfrischend drastischen Ausdrucksweise ist Evans kein Prahler. Er ist nur eine vom Autor geschaffene Kunstfigur, die die Seele der Glamour-Oberfläche anschaulich machen soll. Vor allem geht es dabei um die Seele von Zoë, der Schönheit aus der Provinz, die der Ich-Erzähler mit seinen Foto-Inszenierungen zum Star von Titelblättern der berühmtesten Modemagazine macht. Und die dann doch, von alter Liebe aus der Großstadt getrieben, wieder aus dem Rampenlicht der Journale verschwindet. Dass auch noch Ermittler des FBI in die Geschichte hineinspielen, gibt <em>Catwalk</em> und Evans’ tief greifenden Erlebnissen eine zusätzliche Kriminote.<p>  So platt der Plot, so gut geschrieben ist das Buch. Denn Wittenborn gelingt es tatsächlich, seinem Roman vom Auf- und Abstieg einer Vorstadt-Cinderella Leben -- und Seele -- einzuhauchen. Dass die Geschichte Drive hat, liegt wohl daran, dass Wittenborn als Drehbuchautor für Hollywood sein Geld verdient. Sein Roman <em>Unter Wilden</em> soll bald verfilmt werden. <em>Catwalk</em> hätte es ebenfalls verdient. --<em>Isa Gerck</em></p></p>]]>
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