Guestbook: Ghost Stories - Rilegato

Shapton, Leanne

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ISBN 10: 0399158189 ISBN 13: 9780399158186

Casa editrice: Riverhead Books, 2019

Riassunto

"Reading [Guestbook] feels akin to walking through an art exhibit, each piece linked in ways that are ineffable but clear. . . yearning, like a ghost, lingers long after the stories are done." --NPR

One of our most imaginative writers and artists explores the visitations that haunt us in the midst of life, and reinvents the very way we narrate experience.

A tennis prodigy collapses after his wins, crediting them to an invisible, not entirely benevolent presence. A series of ghosts appear at their former bedsides, some distraught, some fascinated, to witness their unfamiliar occupants. A woman returns from a visit to Alcatraz with an uncomfortable feeling. The spirit of a prisoner has attached himself to you, a friend tells her. He sensed the sympathy you had for those men. In more than two dozen stories and vignettes, accompanied by an evocative curiosity cabinet of artifacts and images, Guestbook beckons us through the glimmering, unsettling evidence that marks our paths in life.

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Recensione:

“Leanne Shapton has a way of making books entirely new, surreal, and uncanny, always experimenting with the ways image and text can be mixed to tell new stories, in new ways. Guest Book is a delicious haunting and leaves one with a chill of recognition for how we live as ghosts in this distant, distracted, and image-obsessed time.” – Sheila Heti 

Praise for Leanne Shapton:

"Shapton writes as confidently as she draws....Her prose frequently has the density of poetry." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"It looks like Shapton can succeed at whatever she puts her mind to....She is no doubt a creative powerhouse, one who puts words and pictures together with a quiet force that comes only from solid, dedicated practice." --Los Angeles Times

"Whenever I come across something of Leanne Shapton's--an illustration in The New York Times, or the wooden books she makes--I feel like I have found a hidden treasure." --Amy Sedaris, author of I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

L'autore:

Leanne Shapton is an artist and author of several books, including Swimming Studies (winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography), Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, and a coauthor of the New York Times-bestselling Women in Clothes. She is also the cofounder of J&L Books, a nonprofit publisher of art and photography books. She lives in New York City.

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• Editore: Riverhead Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0399158189
• ISBN 13: 9780399158186
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320