Abe Aamidor
Auteur van At the Crossroads: Middle America and the Battle to Save the Car Industry
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- Officiële naam
- Aamidor, Abraham
- Geboortedatum
- 1946-11-17
- Geslacht
- Male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- USA
- Opleiding
- University of Chicago (BA|Philosophy)
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (MA|Journalism) - Beroepen
- Newspaper Reporter and Features Writer
- Korte biografie
- Abe Aamidor is a former long-term feature writer at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, The (Champaign-Urbana) News-Gazette and The Indianapolis Star. He retired from The Indianapolis Star in 2008. He served as the President of the Indianapolis Newspaper Guild throughout most of the 2000s. He is the author, co-author or editor of seven books, including “At the Crossroads: Middle America and the Battle to Save the Car Industry” (ECW Press, 2010), and “Media Smackdown: Deconstructing the News and the Future of Journalism” (Peter Lang USA, 2013), which takes an even-handed look at the current crisis in journalism. Since 2012, Aamidor has had more than a dozen short stories published in literary magazines. He resides in the Indianapolis, IN area.
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- Werken
- 8
- Leden
- 28
- Populariteit
- #471,397
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 4
- ISBNs
- 6
I'm torn. He wrote a completely compelling novel about a guy who just didn't deserve the attention. Actually, none of the characters seemed like anyone I would want to know.. There wasn't one point where I liked ANYBODY in the book. This feels like a completely masculine novel, though; so I may have been reacting to that feeling of wish fulfillment in his leaving his family to indulge his fantasy of becoming a writer (I wasn't impressed with any of the excerpts of his work we got.). Of course he indulged in some casual sex too. I was curious whether he would have been okay with it had his wife done the same in his absence. I wished his home had not been there waiting for him, even though it was in a different city that he had originally left.
I loved his musings on writing and what it meant to him and others, The story of the Monastery of Writers kept me reading too. I was expecting a lot more action, but that is not a negative for me. There was enough meat in the mystery for me to maintain interest throughout the book. The ending of the book was flat, but I suspect that was intentional.
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