Love Me Back - Rilegato

Tierce, Merritt

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1472150813 ISBN 13: 9781472150813

Casa editrice: Corsair, 2016

Riassunto

Marie is a waitress at an upscale Dallas steakhouse, attuned to the appetites of her patrons and gifted at hiding her private struggle as a young single mother behind an easy smile and a crisp white apron. It's a world of long hours and late nights, and Marie often gives in to self-destructive impulses, losing herself in a tangle of bodies and urgent highs as her desire for obliteration competes with a stubborn will to survive.

Pulsing with a fierce and feral energy, Love Me Back is an unapologetic portrait of a woman cutting a precarious path through early adulthood and the herald of a powerful new voice in American fiction.

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Recensione:

A gorgeous, dirty razor of prose - sharp and dangerous and breathtaking. (Roxane Gay, author of An Untamed State)

It's an awesome book. (St Vincent (Annie Clark))

An unflinching and galvanic novel full of heart and heartache; one of my favourite books of the last few years. (Carrie Brownstein, co-creator of Portlandia)

Breathtaking, addictive, sexy, raw and honest . . . my favourite debut of the year. (Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins)

You won't find so much as a sentimental comma in this staggeringly fine debut novel, and that's part of the thrill and terror of reading it. (Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk)

Brilliant, devastating . . . Love Me Back is one of those exquisitely rare novels that feel desperate and urgent and absolutely necessary. (New York Times Book Review)

Tierce writes with a visceral, unsentimental directness . . . Love Me Back succeeds both as a behind-the-scenes rendering of the extreme demands placed on workers in the restaurant business and a portrait of a desperate, thwarted young woman. (New Yorker)

Tierce writes poignantly of the pain and loneliness, [but] Love Me Back is also filled with the kindness and humour that people offer one another when they know there's no one else. (Paris Review)

Extraordinary. (L. A. Review of Books)

A heart-cracking read. (Chicago Tribune)

Descrizione del libro:

'Brilliant, devastating... one of those exquisitely rare novels that feel desperate and urgent and absolutely necessary' (New York Times) Love Me Back details the devastating self-destructive downward spiral of a young waitress trapped in the service industry. An uncomfortable, unflinching, unmissable US debut.

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• Editore: Corsair
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1472150813
• ISBN 13: 9781472150813
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224