Double Feature: A Novel - Brossura

King, Owen

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ISBN 10: 1451676905 ISBN 13: 9781451676907

Casa editrice: Scribner, 2014

Riassunto

SAM DOLAN is a young man coming to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film. He has a difficult relationship with his father, B-movie actor Booth Dolan—a boisterous, opinionated, lying lothario whose screen legacy falls somewhere between cult hero and pathetic. Allie, Sam’s dearly departed mother, was a woman whose only fault, in Sam’s eyes, was her eternal affection for his father. Also included in the cast of indelible characters: a precocious, frequently violent half-sister; a conspiracy-theorist second wife; an Internet-famous roommate; a contractor who can’t stop expanding his house; a happy-go-lucky college girlfriend and her husband, a retired Yankees catcher; the morose producer of a true-crime show; and a slouching indie-film legend. Not to mention a tragic sex monster.

Unraveling the tumultuous, decades-spanning story of the Dolan family’s friends, lovers, and adversaries,Double Feature is about letting go of everything—regret, resentment, dignity, moving pictures, the dead—and taking it again from the top. Against the backdrop of indie filmmaking, college campus life, contemporary Brooklyn, and upstate New York, Owen King’s epic debut novel combines propulsive storytelling with mordant wit and brims with a deep understanding of the trials of ambition and art, of relationships and life, and of our attempts to survive it all.

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Recensione:

"Owen King has spun a story with great compassion and humor. And in examining the creative process, it's also horrifyingly accurate." (Bill Hader, Saturday Night Live)

"Wonderfully, organically funny. Owen King has a gift." (Dave Barry)

"Double Feature is a many-headed comic monster. Its concerns are varied; it’s hilarious first and foremost, but it’s also a heartbreaking and poignant meditation on the vagaries of art. The sweep of the novel is epic." (Los Angeles Review of Books)

"Tartly delicious." (Tampa Bay Times)

“[An] ambitious and warmhearted first novel...King writes with witty verve.” (Entertainment Weekly)

"Fresh, new, and original." (Christian Science Monitor)

“[A] powerfully insightful and often devastatingly funny debut.... Double Feature constantly walks the line between tragedy and comedy, between love and loathing, between friendship and strained codependency, between art and what’s only posing as art.” (Bookpage)

“Epic, ambitious, and dedicated to the uncontainable...[King] has a captivating energy, a precision and a fondness for people that are rare...King loves people as well as words, and he has the reach of a novelist...this is the real stuff, I think, and there’s plenty of it.” (The New York Times)

“The son of horror master Stephen, the younger King delivers a darkly humorous and often heartfelt work that's part ode to low-budget movies, part family drama and part screwball comedy with a slew of oddball characters... the only scary thing here is the new novelist's potential as a writer.” (USA Today)

“Sharp, hilarious, and irreverent, Double Feature is not only a love-letter to cinema, but also a moving exploration of what it means to be an artist. This novel is brilliant, and Owen King is a magician.” (Lauren Groff, author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia)

L'autore:

Owen King is the author of the novel Double Feature and We’re All in This Together: A Novella and Stories. He is the coauthor of Intro to Alien Invasion and the coeditor of Who Can Save Us Now? Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories. He lives in Upstate New York with his wife, the writer Kelly Braffet, and their daughter.

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• Editore: Scribner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1451676905
• ISBN 13: 9781451676907
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 449