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  1. Alex Shakar (* 1968 in Brooklyn) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Veröffentlichungen. 1996: City in Love. The New York Metamorphoses, New York: Harper, ISBN 978-0-06-050883-8. 2001: The Savage Girl (dt. "Der letzte Schrei"), New York: Harper, ISBN 978-0-06-620987-6.

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Alex_ShakarAlex Shakar - Wikipedia

    Alexander Michael Shakar (born April 25, 1968) is an American novelist, short story writer, and academic. His novel Luminarium (Soho Press, 2011) received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction.

  3. The Savage Girl is the first novel by American author Alex Shakar, released in 2001. Plot summary. Burnt-out art student Ursula Van Urden arrives in Middle City, a fictional American metropolis built around a volcano, with plans to care for her younger sister, Ivy.

    • Alexander M Shakar
    • 2001
  4. A native of Brooklyn, NY, he now lives in Chicago, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing/English teaching fiction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “ It’s exciting to meet an author who’s unafraid of heights. — New York Times Book Review.

  5. Der letzte Schrei (engl. The Savage Girl) ist ein 2001 erschienener Roman des amerikanischen Autors Alex Shakar, dessen zentrales Thema die Jagd der Kunststudentin Ursula Van Urden nach dem nächsten großen Trend ist. Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Zusammenfassung. 2 Weitere Aspekte des Romans. 3 Ausgaben. 4 Weblinks. Zusammenfassung.

  6. 22. Apr. 2012 · Dec 4, 2011. Luminarium has been selected as one of the best novels of 2011 by the Kansas City Star:"Shakar brings a host of profound concerns to this inventive, metaphysical, funny and caring novel set in post-9/11 New York City, ground zero for moral and spiritual paradoxes, in which one twin brother is in a coma and the other is desperately ...

  7. In Alex Shakar's latest novel, Luminarium, Fred Brounian enters a mind-expanding scientific study about inducing spiritual experiences, falls hard for his experimenter, and starts receiving mysterious emails and other messages from his comatose twin brother. Called "an intricately structured, imaginative, epistemological, and wildly eventful ...