Toward You - Brossura

Krusoe, Jim

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0982569114 ISBN 13: 9780982569115

Casa editrice: Tin House Books, 2011

Riassunto

Bob has spent the past several years maintaining a successful upholstery business, but in between re-covering sofas he’s also been working in a sporadic fashion to build a machine that will communicate with the dead. Along these lines, he’s gotten more or less nowhere. Then two surprising things happen: He receives an important message from a dog, and next, his old girlfriend, Yvonne, re-enters his life, bringing with her a daughter named Dee Dee. It doesn’t take long from then on until really bad things happen, and suddenly the perfecting of the Communicator, as he calls his invention, becomes a necessity.
Toward You completes the trilogy begun with Girl Factory and Erased and is part of a continuing examination of the relationship between this world and the next. Amid the usual Krusoesque see-saw of longing, distraction, mistakes, disaster, and hope, the novel also explores the value of storytelling itself.

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Recensione:

Krusoe’s sure and subtle imaginings of such characters yearning, isolated and finally enigmatic place him among the foremost creators of surreal Americana.”
The New York Times Book Review

"Krusoe's surrealistically skewed, oddly affecting novel blurs the borders between life and the afterlife, what's real and what's imagined, to highly entertaining effect. . .A seriously strange, funny and affecting novel about imagining another life while being stuck in this one."
Kirkus Reviews

"Jim Krusoe is the mad scientist, the man behind the curtain . . . Krusoe does something magical with regular words and regular life. His adjectives glow with possibility; the term 'fair-sized brown dog' takes on a sci-fi, suburban backyard glow, like an alien presence with a new language that sounds enough like our own to make us strain to uncover its meaning."
Los Angeles Times

It's a funny, quirky, darkly fascinating tale told with the skill of a wordsmith and the soul of a poet.”
Foreword

A surreal meditation on the afterlife.” Los Angeles Magazine

"Jim Krusoe’s plots are as quirky, charming, and original as his voice, which is saying plenty on both counts. He has the skewed perspective of Picasso, the sad heart of Keats, and the straight-faced mischief of The Outer Limits."
Book Slut

Every page hums with true emotion and genuine humanity.”
The Brooklyn Rail

"Jacobson writes that there should be no distinction between comic and serious novels, even though readers have 'created a false division between laughter and thought.' Over the course of this trilogy, Krusoe has proven that one is accomplice to the other, like a friend who gamely points to some fantastical sight in the distance, then socks you in the jaw."
The Rumpus

Jim Krusoe once again proves himself a master of dialogue, sublime wit, and unforgettable characters in Toward You.”
LargeHeartedBoy

Krusoe has a way with sketching witty vignettes with these desperate characters some goodhearted, others not that makes the reading enjoyable.”
Collected Miscellany

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• Editore: Tin House Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0982569114
• ISBN 13: 9780982569115
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 223