Niagara Falls All over Again - Rilegato

McCracken, Elizabeth

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ISBN 10: 0385318375 ISBN 13: 9780385318372

Casa editrice: Dell Pub Co, 2001

Riassunto

During thirty years together as the most famous comedy team of their era, conniving comedian Rocky Carter and his straightman, Mose Sharp, a small-town boy from Valley Junction, Iowa, have enjoyed a warm relationship and encountered a host of colorful characters on their road to fame and fortune, until Rocky commits a desperate act of betrayal. 50,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Any doubts that McCracken could not equal the inventiveness, wit and quirky imagination of her first novel, The Giant's House, will be dispelled by this relentlessly eventful, rollickingly funny and heartwarming narrative. In its delicate balance of black humor, irony and pathos, this novel is as exhilarating as the waters of Niagara, its flow mimicking the tumultuous rush of time.”
— Publishers Weekly
Praise for Elizabeth McCracken and The Giant’s House:

“Such is the incantatory power of McCracken’s eccentric tale that by its close we are completely in the grip of its strangely conceived ardor.... McCracken is as original a writer as they come.... I fell in love.”
— Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker

“Satisfying ... often exquisite ... McCracken unpacks her metaphors with the intensity of a poet.”
— The New York Times Book Review

“Thoroughly enjoyable from its unlikely beginning to its bittersweet end ... McCracken knows all kinds of subtle, enticing secrets of the heart and conveys them in silky, transparent language.”
— San Francisco Chronicle

“McCracken is a true romantic, not the sloppy, gushy kind who lie to themselves, but the robust, ferocious romantic who sees reality with all its chinks, twitches, and zits, and finds it beautiful.”
— Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love

“McCracken mixes the proper amount of lunacy with exactly the right amount of sorrow. The blend is reminiscent of such late-20th-century treasures as The Accidental Tourist, The World According to Garp, or A Confederacy of Dunces.”
— The Denver Post

“Remarkable. McCracken has wit and subtlety to burn, as well as an uncanny ability to tap in to the sadness that runs through the center of her characters’ worlds. This book is so lovely that, when you’re reading, you’ll want to sleep with it under your pillow.”
— Salon

“Highly recommended ... eloquent and hauntingly beautiful ... This is a terrific novel, and McCracken is definitely a writer to watch.”
— Library Journal

L'autore:

Elizabeth McCracken is the recipient of the Harold Vursell Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Michener Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She was also honored as one of Granta’s 20 Best American Writers Under 40. In addition to The Giant’s House, a Barnes & Noble Discover Award winner, she is the author of Here’s Your Hat, What’s Your Hurry.

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• Editore: Dell Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0385318375
• ISBN 13: 9780385318372
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 308