Lost Lake - Brossura

Slouka, Mark

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0330493140 ISBN 13: 9780330493147

Casa editrice: Picador, 2008

Riassunto

`Darkly vivid, inexplicably captivating, miraculously expressive, these are stories that see through the mirrored surface into a hidden yet strangely intimate world' New York Times Book Review Set on the shores of Lost Lake, in upstate New York, these twelve tales tell of three generations of the small Czech community who have made their homes there, beside the water's edge. Both land and lake feature large in their lives - shaping events, individuals, relationships: in the dead of night, a woman unhitches a boat and rows across the darkness to meet her lover; a young soldier sees hope for the future reflected in the water's rippled surface; a boy recalls a catch of fish and learns to question the past as later presented. Characters emerge and re-emerge, time moves on, yet through it all the lake remains central, significant, symbolic. Haunting, poetic and elegiac, Slouka's stories are about people who inhabit the margins of space and place, about home, history and humanity, about myth and memory. `Glorious and lyrical' Los Angeles Times `Generous and tender' Boston Globe

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

From the author of The Visible World, a Richard & Judy Book Club book

L'autore:

Mark Slouka is a graduate of Columbia and currently teaches there. This is his first collection of stories, and he is also the author of the acclaimed novel, God's Fool. He lives in New York with his wife and children.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0330493140
• ISBN 13: 9780330493147
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192