Demonology - Brossura

Rick Moody

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571204988 ISBN 13: 9780571204984

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2002

Riassunto

In this splendidly diverse collection of stories, Rick Moody travels across the surface of America and lays bare the troubling loss of connection that lurks beneath. The stories are cast in many varied forms - domestic comedy, pseudo-fairytale, philosophical argument - but whatever the genre, the underlying elements linking them all together concern loss, pleasure, and the difficulty of really expressing love. What characterises them in style is an antic humour, and a vibrancy of language that is uniquely Rick Moody's own, leaving the reader with no doubt about why the New Yorker voted him one of the 'Twenty Writers for the 21st Century'.

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Recensione:

... the narrative is poised between hilarity and poignancy. Moody's currency may be old, but you seldom feel shortchanged. -- Sunday Times, January 27, 2002

Here there is not just a whole but a whole that is totally coherent. It is absolutely more than the sum of its parts. --Independent on Sunday, January 13, 2002

His new collection of short stories is wickedly revealing about American society. Vibrant and inventive. --The Daily Telegraph, December 15, 2001, Saturday

Moody's new collection ... deserves to be taken seriously ... Demonology is funny, original, erudite and humane... --The Observer, December 30, 2001

L'autore:

Rick Moody was born in New York City and studied at Brown University and Columbia University. He has attracted considerable attention and received lavish praise for four books: Garden State (1992) (winner of the Pushcart Press Editors' Book Award), The Ice Storm (1994) (Ang Lee directed a film version released in 1997), Purple America (1997), heralded as Book of the Year by both the New York Times and New York Post and, most recently, his highly acclaimed collection of short stories, Demonology.$$$In 1998, Moody received the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2000, he received a Guggenheim fellowship. His short work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Harper's, Esquire, the Paris Review, The Atlantic and he is a regular contributor to the on-line magazine, McSweeneys. He has taught at the State University of New York at Purchase, the Bennington Writing Seminars, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the New School for Social Research. He lives on Fishers Island, New York.$$$His most recent book The Black Veil: A Memoir with Digressions, was published by Faber in August 2002.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0571204988
• ISBN 13: 9780571204984
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320