| 词条 | Tom Kromer |
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BiographyKromer was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia. He wrote his novel after five years of living as a hobo, riding trains and traveling across the United States. He spent 15 months in CCC camp but was mostly living as a vagabond.[1] He died in Cabell County, West Virginia.[2] Waiting for NothingDedicated "to Jolene, who turned off the gas," the work is a realistic account of life as a homeless man during the Great Depression. There is no overarching theme to the novel, which is a collection of anecdotes. Except for a few stories, Kromer said the incidents in the novel were autobiographical.[1] Straightforward, declarative sentences in the tough-guy argot of the time ("I admire that stiff. He has got the guts. He does not like parting with his dough") are characteristic of Kromer, as are spare descriptions of grim scenes ("When I look at these stiffs by the fire, I am looking at a graveyard. There is hardly room to move between the tombstones. . . . The epitaphs are chiseled in sunken shadows on their cheeks"). The settings include rescue missions, flop houses, abandoned buildings and the sidewalk outside a nice restaurant. In one chapter, the narrator slowly comes to realize that the pitch-black boxcar he is riding in contains another rider, who is quietly, slowly, stalking him.[1] Waiting for Nothing was first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1935, reissued by Hill & Wang in 1968, and, in a definitive edition edited by Arthur D. Casciato and James L.W. West III, reprinted as Waiting for Nothing and Other Writings by the University of Georgia Press in 1986. AgentKromer's literary agent was Maxim Lieber.[3] References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite news|title=A Young Hobo; Waiting for Nothing. By Tom Kromer. 188 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $2.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/03/17/93679549.html?pageNumber=52|accessdate=July 4, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=March 17, 1935|language=en}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Kromer, Tom}}2. ^West Virginia, Deaths Index, 1853-1973. 3. ^{{cite book| last = Kromer| first = Tom | title = Waiting for Nothing and Other Writings| publisher = Knopf (University of Georgia Press)| date = 1935 | accessdate = 4 August 2014| page = 268| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=iTJHJlHfx2oC&pg=PA290&lpg=PA290&dq=%22maxim+lieber%22+worked+job&source=bl&ots=gzBKevb57a&sig=23IEClIghQvbrWFD4tmT7_eu-eI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NnXcU-aEJ8ixyAShm4CoDg&ved=0CDMQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=lieber&f=false}} 7 : 1906 births|1969 deaths|People from Huntington, West Virginia|20th-century American novelists|American male novelists|Itinerant living|20th-century American male writers |
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