Understanding the Alacran - Lapoma, Jonathan

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#1 Amazon Best Seller

Biographie:
Jonathan LaPoma is an award-winning, best-selling novelist, screenwriter, songwriter, and poet from Buffalo, NY. In 2005, he received a BA in history and a secondary education credential from the State University of New York at Geneseo, and he traveled extensively throughout the United States and Mexico after graduating. These experiences have become the inspiration for much of his writing, which often explores themes of alienation and misery as human constructions that can be overcome through self-understanding and the acceptance of suffering. LaPoma has written four novels, twelve screenplays, and hundreds of songs and poems. His screenplays have won over 150 awards/honors at various international screenwriting competitions, and his black comedy script HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS was optioned by Warren Zide along with Wexlfish Pictures (AMERICAN PIE, FINAL DESTINATION, THE BIG HIT) in July 2017. Jonathan LaPoma is an award-winning, Kirkus/Barnes & Noble-recommended novelist, screenwriter, songwriter, and poet from Buffalo, NY. In 2005, he received a BA in history and a secondary education credential from the State University of New York at Geneseo, and he traveled extensively throughout the United States and Mexico after graduating. These experiences have become the inspiration for much of his writing, which often explores themes of alienation and misery as human constructions that can be overcome through self-understanding and the acceptance of suffering.LaPoma has written five novels, fifteen screenplays, and hundreds of songs and poems. His screenplays have won over 160 awards and honors at various international competitions. His dark comedy script HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS was optioned by veteran producer Warren Zide along with Wexlfish Pictures (AMERICAN PIE, FINAL DESTINATION) in July 2017. Additionally, award-winning producer Byron A. Martin (holding extensive studio tracking for Disney, Sony, and Universal) is attached to his script, LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (Land That I Love).LaPoma's novels have been recommended by Kirkus Reviews and Barnes & Noble (B&N Press Presents list), have hit #1 on Amazon Bestseller lists across the USA, Canada, and Australia, and have won top honors at the Eric Hoffer Book Awards, the Florida Authors and Publishers Association President's Awards, and the Stargazer Literary Prizes.His literary achievements are permanently codified in the institutional record of record, Gale's Contemporary Authors (Vol. 391). His five loosely-linked novels-Hammond, The Summer of Crud, Understanding the Alacr?n, Developing Minds, and The Soul City Salvation-are preserved globally in elite academic archives and national collections, including the Library of Congress (LCCN: 2019937723), University College London (UCL), and the Zentralbibliothek Z?rich. Internationally represented by Alexandra Maramenides of the R?ve Agency, LaPoma lives in Mexico City and is the frontman for the cinematic art-rock project THE CROOKED EAST....

Sommaire:
s been avoiding: Is this trip a desperate search for life or a slow death? A dark but humorous coming-of-age novel, UNDERSTANDING THE ALACRAN explores many of the questions that haunt young people searching for love and their place in this world, and offers a poetic look at the raw beauty and healing power of Mexico....