A shocking picture of contemporary America and a plastic self-portrait of writer Jan Novák
For three years, Jan Novák spent his money in Chicago. They were heavy: five hundred dollars in quarters weighed thirteen pounds. The largest sum he delivered as an armed courier and driver for United Armored Services was twenty-four million dollars, but he usually had about three million in his armored car. After ten years of freelancing, he chose this job to write about, and he grasped the unique material he experienced there with a narrative conviction all his own. His tales of the Chicago security agency offer vivid depictions of unusual surroundings and vivid portraits of the author's colleagues who put their lives on the line for $10 an hour to walk around Chicago with a gun. Gradually, they form a shocking picture of contemporary America and a plastic self-portrait of the writer himself.
Jan Novák
Jan Novák (* 1953) is a Czech-American writer, translator and documentary filmmaker. In 1969 he emigrated with his parents to the USA via Austria; studied and lived in Chicago, where he also began his literary career, and now he is back home in the Czech Republic. For his books (among others. Striptease Chicago, Million-dollar jeep, So far, so good, Grandpa, Hic and scythe in Chicago, What do I know? ) has won a number of prestigious awards: The Carl Sandburg Prize, the Magnesia Litera Prize for Prose of the Year, the Josef Škvorecký Prize, the Egon Hostovský Prize and the Revolver Revue Prize. His biography of Milan Kundera, published last year and entitled Kundera. Czech life and times; The domestic cultural public has divided into two irreconcilable camps over the book: one praised it, the other denigrated it, but few remained indifferent to it.
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