Blood Test

Resumen del libro

From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and one of our most gifted writers (Chicago Tribune) comes a comic novel about a divorced Midwestern dad who takes a cutting-edge medical test and learns that he has a predisposition to murder. In this fresh take on love and trouble in America, Brock Hobson, an insurance salesman and Sunday-school teacher, finds his equilibrium disturbed by the results of a predictive blood test. Baxter, a master storyteller, brings us a gradually building rollercoaster narrative, and a protagonist who is impertinent, searching, and hilariously relatable. From his good-as-gold, gentle girlfriend to the macho subcontractor guy his ex-wife left him for, not to mention his well-raised teenage kids, now exploring sex and sexuality, the secondary characters in Brock's life all contribute meaningfully to the drama, as increasing challenges to his sense of self and purpose crash over him. The final battle no spoilers, but there is one couldn't be more delightful, as this quick and bracing novel reminds us to choose the best people to love, accept the ones we love even if we didn't choose them, and love the mall well.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;b Charles Baxterx{0026}lt;/b (Minneapolis, 1947) es novelista, poeta y ensayista. Ha sido profesor de escritura creativa en la Universidad de Míchigan, en la Universidad de Minnesota y en el Warren Wilson College. Es autor de seis novelas, seis libros de cuentos, tres poemarios y dos recopilaciones de ensayos. Entre sus obras de ficción destacan las novelas x{0026}lt;i Primera luzx{0026}lt;/i (1987); x{0026}lt;i El festín del amorx{0026}lt;/i (2000; Libros del Asteroide, 2022), finalista del National Book Award, ganadora del premio Llibreter 2002 y que fue llevada al cine en 2007; x{0026}lt;i Saul y Patsyx{0026}lt;/i (2003), x{0026}lt;i El ladrón de almasx{0026}lt;/i (2008) y x{0026}lt;i The Sun Collectivex{0026}lt;/i (2020); y los libros de cuentos x{0026}lt;i Believersx{0026}lt;/i (1997) y x{0026}lt;i Therex{0026} x02019;s Something I Want You to Dox{0026}lt;/i (2015). Actualmente vive en Minneapolis.x{0026}lt;/p