Emerald Light in the Air - Brossura

Antrim, Donald

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1250074703 ISBN 13: 9781250074706

Casa editrice: Picador, 2015

Riassunto

"A masterful story collection--heartbreaking and hilarious--from one of America's greatest writers Nothing is simple for the men and women in Donald Antrim's stories. As they do the things we all do--bum a cigarette at a party, stroll with a girlfriend down Madison Avenue, take a kid to the zoo--they're confronted with their own uncooperative selves. These artists, writers, lawyers, teachers, and actors make fools of themselves, spiral out of control, have delusions of grandeur, despair, and find it hard to imagine a future. They talk, they listen, they hope, they dream. They look for communion in a city, both beautiful and menacing, which can promise so much and yield so little. But they are hungry for life. They want to love and be loved. These stories, all published in The New Yorker over the last fifteen years, make it clear that Antrim is one of America's most important writers. His work has been praised by his significant contemporaries, including Jonathan Franzen, Thomas Pynchon, Jeffrey Eugenides, and George Saunders, who described The Verificationist as "one of the most pleasure-giving, funny, perverse, complicated, addictive novels of the last twenty years." And here, at last, is the story collection we have been waiting for, The Emerald Light in the Air, Antrim's best book yet"--

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L'autore:

Donald Antrim is the author of the novels Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World,The Hundred Brothers, and The Verificationist, as well as a memoir,The Afterlife. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and an associate professor in the writing program at Columbia University. He is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1250074703
• ISBN 13: 9781250074706
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 176