The Making of Zombie Wars - Rilegato

Hemon, Aleksandar

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ISBN 10: 1447295226 ISBN 13: 9781447295228

Casa editrice: Pan Macmillan, 2015

Riassunto

'A raucous, hilarious book . . . deadly funny.' Chicago Magazine Script idea #142: Aliens undercover as cabbies abduct the fiancee of the main character, who has to find a way to a remote planet to save her. Title: Love Trek. Script idea #185: Teenager discovers his girlfriend's beloved grandfather was a guard in a Nazi death camp. The boy's grandparents are survivors, but he's tantalizingly close to achieving deflowerment, so when a Nazi-hunter arrives in town in pursuit of Grandpa, he has to distract him long enough to get laid. A riotous Holocaust comedy. Title: The Righteous Love. Script idea #196: Rock star high out of his mind freaks out during a show, runs offstage, and is lost in streets crowded with his hallucinations. The teenage fan who finds him keeps the rock star for himself for the night. Mishaps and adventures follow. This one could be a musical: Singin' in the Brain. Josh Levin is an aspiring screenwriter teaching ESL classes in Chicago. His laptop is full of ideas, but the only one to really take root is Zombie Wars. When Josh comes home to discover his landlord, an unhinged army vet, rifling through his dirty laundry, he decides to move in with his girlfriend, Kimmy. It's domestic bliss for a moment, but Josh becomes entangled with a student, a Bosnian woman named Ana, whose husband is jealous and violent. Disaster ensues, and as Josh's choices move from silly to profoundly absurd, Aleksandar Hemon's The Making of Zombie Wars takes on real consequence.

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Recensione:

Dreadfully, wrigglingly, antisocially funny . . . Hemon's work often crackles with humour, but it's never been this uproarious. (Spectator)

Exhilaratingly astute. (Sunday Times)

Hemon is remarkable for his playful, loving and endlessly generative relationship with language. (Guardian)

[Hemon's] writing is always worthy of your time. A purse slumps on a chair "like a deflated heart, and just as full of secrets." A woman's lips are "more than full, much better than thick. Lips, like clouds, forced clichés upon you." . . . Every page contains these sorts of pleasures. (New York Times Book Review)

Hemon's writing style is as vital and rewarding as ever . . . The kind of writing that pulls you in and holds you there. (San Francisco Chronicle)

The Making of Zombie Wars doesn't have much to do with the undead, but it's a comic novel with BRAAAINS. That intellectual heft is to be expected . . . But Hemon is also a master at camouflaging the deeper elements of this novel amid its tomfoolery. (Washington Post)

A delightful ride through an ordinary life kicking into high, crazy gear. With zombies (Carolyn Kellogg Los Angeles Times)

Hemon (Nowhere Man, The Lazarus Project, Love and Obstacles) mixes just the right amount of dark wit, apocalyptic foreboding and emotional insight. (Seattle Times)

An eccentric comedy, albeit one with the same level of subtlety and resonance we're accustomed to from Hemon, a MacArthur "genius grant" winner . . . The wit and intelligence of The Making of Zombie Wars should please Hemon fans and entice new readers. (BookPage)

Brutal but darkly hilarious . . . Hemon has always had a gift for humor, but he's never written anything as raucously funny and surreal as this . . . Endlessly entertaining . . . The Making of Zombie Wars is crazy in the best sense of the word, and very few authors could have pulled it off. (National Public Radio)

Descrizione del libro:

The seriously funny rollercoaster ride of a novel that Aleksandar Hemon has long promised

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• Editore: Pan Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1447295226
• ISBN 13: 9781447295228
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320