Dirty Love - Brossura

Dubus, Andre, III

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0393348911 ISBN 13: 9780393348910

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2014

Riassunto

In these linked novellas in which characters walk out the back door of one story and into the next, love is "dirty"—tangled up with need, power, boredom, ego, fear, and fantasy. On the Massachusetts coast north of Boston, a controlling manager, Mark, discovers his wife's infidelity after twenty-five years of marriage. An overweight young woman, Marla, gains a romantic partner but loses her innocence. A philandering bartender/aspiring poet, Robert, betrays his pregnant wife. And in the stunning title novella, a teenage girl named Devon, fleeing a dirty image of her posted online, seeks respect in the eyes of her widowed great-uncle Francis and of an Iraq vet she’s met surfing the Web.Slivered by happiness and discontent, aging and death, but also persistent hope and forgiveness, these beautifully wrought narratives express extraordinary tenderness toward human beings, our vulnerable hearts and bodies, our fulfilling and unfulfilling lives alone and with others.

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Recensione:

"From one of the best contemporary writers of fiction, Dirty Love...is an utterly absorbing novella on the nature of intimacy and love. Immensely moving and universally true." --Gabriel Byrne, The Best Books of 2013, The Irish Times

L'autore:

The number one The New York Times best-selling author, Andre Dubus III is the recipient of many honours, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. Also available: the "riveting and poignant" (Financial Times), "most sensitive - and gripping - account of male violence imaginable" (Robert Collins, The Sunday Times, Christmas Round-Up 2011), Townie (ISBN 978 0 393 34067 9).

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0393348911
• ISBN 13: 9780393348910
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 292