Realia - Brossura

Aitken, Will

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0679311068 ISBN 13: 9780679311065

Casa editrice: Vintage Canada, 2001

Riassunto

Japanese pop culture and Greek myth, cross-dressing Japanese girls and muscular Japanese stuntmen, wild monkeys and earthquakes, speeding Maseratis and a woman who'll try anything twice collide in this sexy, funny, irreverent, no-holds-barred work of fiction. Realia also explores how pop culture becomes contemporary myth, and how ancient myth still feeds the heart of pop culture.

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Recensione:

"Somewhere between Ovid and Jonathan Swift lies Realia, as lucid as a Japanese paper clip but slightly more real. Will Aitken is my favourite novelist writing in English today." —Anne Carson

"Louise's gritty, tough manners are endearing and one comes to quite like this Albertan giant lumbering about Kyoto, scaring the natives." —New Brunswick Reader

"Those expecting another in the journal genre of the awkward Westerner struggling to absorb the aesthetic and spiritual richness of Japan will be in for a shock. Louise is no phrasebook-hugging pilgrim on a tasteful culture quest." —The Globe and Mail

"Poetic...a recounting of the Orpheus myth." —The Gazette

“Aitken overlaps pop culture and ancient myth to create a gritty, unsentimental love story with operatic dimensions....Realia is a quirky novel, part modern myth, part demystification.” —Edmonton Journal

“In Louise, Aitken has created a character to be proud of–loud, large, lusty and therefore utterly out of place in her new surroundings.... Both her voice and her personality are resonant.” —National Post

“[Aitken] has a talent for satire, or black humour, or whatever you want to call it. Realia’s best points are its tight one-liners, amusing caricatures, slapstick and rollickingly absurd burlesque.” —The Toronto Star

L'autore:

Will Aitken was born in Indiana and came to Canada to attend McGill University in 1972. Since then he has made Montreal his home, and co-founded the city's first gay and lesbian bookstore, Librairie L'Androgyne, in 1974. He has worked as a writer and broadcaster for the CBC, the BBC, and National Public Radio in the U.S., and as a journalist for The Globe and Mail and the National Post, among other publications. He also teaches cinema and has published two previous novels, Terre Haute (1989) and A Visit Home (1993).

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• Editore: Vintage Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0679311068
• ISBN 13: 9780679311065
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272