The Isle of Youth - Brossura

Laura Van Den Berg

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1907970681 ISBN 13: 9781907970689

Casa editrice: Daunt Books, 2015

Riassunto

'The best young writer in America.' Salon

The Isle of Youth journeys through lives mired in secrecy and deception. From a newlywed marooned on honeymoon in Patagonia, to an abandoned tourist trailing a troupe of Parisian acrobats, to a woman who travels to Antarctica to unpick the secrets of her brother's death, the characters in these mesmerising stories are complicated, vulnerable, and ruthless afflicted by desires which they try to satisfy despite never knowing what they truly are.

Each tale in this collection is by turns magical and brutal, making the unusual seem plausible and the impossible suddenly likely. Van den Berg tinges her landscapes with a sense of the surreal, inviting readers to recognise as her characters do the surprising ways in which the familiar can unexpectedly reveal its darker contours.

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Recensione:

Uniformly excellent emotionally complex, very raw but always with a mixture of pathos and humour that made me think of Lorrie Moore. --Dave Eggers, Huck

A beautiful and compelling read. --Ann Patchett

These stories are expertly crafted and utterly assured: They begin by offering a nuanced and mordantly perceptive portrait of a world, or worlds, just like ours, and then they lift off, thrillingly, into the uncanny. You will follow Laura van den Berg's voice anywhere. --Colin Barrett, winner of Guardian First Book Award

L'autore:

Laura van den Berg won the O. Henry Award in 2014, the Pushcart Prize in 2009, and has twice been shortlisted for the Frank O Connor International Award. She is also the author of What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us and Find Me.

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• Editore: Daunt Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1907970681
• ISBN 13: 9781907970689
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 257