Fortune Smiles: Stories - Brossura

Johnson, Adam

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ISBN 10: 0857522981 ISBN 13: 9780857522986

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2015

Riassunto

By the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner of THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON - for fans of international literary fiction, especially Hanya Yanigahara, Jonathan Franzen and Karen Jay Fowler.

'Unputdownable is an overused word, but at their best these stories are completely gripping.' Sunday Times

'Ironic, witty, super-intelligent' - The Times

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2015
Adam Johnson takes you into the minds of characters you never thought you would meet – a former Stasi prison warden in denial of his past, a refugee from North Korea unsettled by his new freedom, a UPS driver in hurricane-torn Louisiana looking for the mother of his son.

These are tales of love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. Tender, wry, utterly compelling, they show us humanity where you might least expect it.

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Recensione:

"It is impossible not to be awed by these stories. Life, marriage, love, death, are all described here in the most amazingly unexpected ways; it seems at times that Adam, like the greatest of the great writers, has some kind of supernatural facility that allows him to see through to the pitch black core of things and to create a crystalline portrait of what he witnesses" (DONAL RYAN, author of the bestselling THE SPINNING HEART)

"Unputdownable is an overused word, but at their best these stories are completely gripping." (Sunday Times)

"Johnson has a rare combination of inventiveness, intellectual pyrotechnics and emotional sophistication . . . These stories are treasures." (BBC)

"Johnson packs more voice in his stories than most authors do in a novel" (ESQUIRE.COM)

"Masterful" (The Washington Post)

"...formidable, meaty tales that cling on and don’t let go." (The Independent)

"[Adam Johnson] is always perceptive and brave; his lines always sing and strut and sizzle and hush and wash and blaze over the reader." (The New York Times Book Review)

"Adam Johnson . . . demonstrates again his boundless imagination, his ability to capture an entire personality in a few perfectly chosen details, and his gift for making foreign territory feel utterly familiar. Johnson is willing to go into real darkness and send a beacon back from the depths of tragedy, and his voice is as inevitable and fresh as anything being written today." (Matthew Thomas)

"Entrancing." (O: The Oprah Magazine)

"[Adam Johnson] serves up six sinewy stories that shock and surprise in his edgy, inviting Fortune Smiles . . . compulsively readable." (Elle)

Descrizione del libro:

Adam Johnson's first book since winning the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2013 for his novel THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON, and the Sunday Times Short Story Award 2014 - a major story collection including brand new work.

For fans of international literary fiction, especially Junot Diaz, Jonathan Franzen, Anthony Doerr and Hanya Yanagihara's A LITTLE LIFE.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0857522981
• ISBN 13: 9780857522986
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320