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LEARY
EDMUND ARISTONE
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Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
Leary begins with the lead+ character, Sal, a 29 -year-old former mathematics professor at MIT. Sal is reviewing his life as he scans the room at his present job: manager of a go- go bar in Atlantic City. The road to his current life was tragic and difficult.
When Sal was four years old, his family was killed in a car accident on Christmas Eve leaving Sal to be raised by an elderly aunt. At the age of 18, Sal joined the Marine Corps and served 14months in a combat zone as a medic. Sal thought it was to save lives, but it was the last place he should have been.
After being discharged, Sal buried himself in a tortuous and lonely academic pursuit, earning a doctorate degree in mathematics and a teaching position at MIT. At the age of 27, Sal was a rising star on the University's staff, but his quiet, calm demeanor hid the 4- year- old boy screaming in the chaos.
Six months into his tenure, Sal ended up a confused: unhappy and feeling misplaced in the sterile political atmosphere of MIT. Yet, his brilliant skills as ateacher belied his inner turmoil and increasingly diminished ability to cope with his life. But when he meets and marries a 24- year- old teacher named Barbara things change. With Barbara at his side, life becomes tolerable, and the demons quieted.
Unfortunately, Barbara dies suddenly in Sal's arms before their first anniversary. Harsh days follow when her parents insist on a traditional funeral, even though Sal tries to explain that was against her wishes.
Exhausted by their relentless demands and grief, Sal agrees. "Go ahead," he tells them, "Fill her dead body with chemical, paint her face, put her in a box like a toy doll and bury her in the ground." Those were the last words Sal would ever say to the strangers who created the greatest gift he ever had. Two days later, Sal quit his teaching job and booked a one- way flight to Atlantic City.
But four months later, even though he is in an environment where he can hide his feelings much easier, Sal is alone, his demons close. For Sal, there are only the laws of probability, and he is puzzled by people who pray to spirits to interfere with their fates. For him it is all about the numbers: his past job at MIT, the death of his family, Barbara, the landmines and little pieces of lead that killed his comrades on the fields of battle. Light, time, the Universe, or a tray of drinks in go -go bar in Atlantic City, it all merges together.
Sal is alone and resigned to his fate amid the loud music and noisy crowds. He knows no one will ever take Barbara's place. But when a mysterious 24- year- oldex- child prodigy comes crashing into his life, everything changes.
Sal is captivated by her boldness, intelligence, and her living in what he understands as Einstein's time zone. At the cost of her love, Leary refuse to let Sal live in the shadows. And unlike his dark, logical concepts of numbers, her concepts are filled with her blood and spirit. Even though Sal understands he will never escape the reality of numbers, he doesn't care as long as he has Leary because everything else pales in her presence.
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Christmas, lounge, sex, death, Marine Corps, bar, killed, car