Visa For Avalon: A Novel - Brossura

Bryher

Brossura

ISBN 10: 193046407X ISBN 13: 9781930464070

Casa editrice: Wesleyan Univ Pr, 2004

Riassunto

In this futuristic novel, five men and women attempt to immigrate to legendary Avalon after "the Movement" threatens the liberty and comforts they have taken for granted. Visa for Avalon takes place in an unnamed country and an unnamed time. As ordinary life comes to a standstill, escape is the only hope. But is Avalon truly the safe haven that it is rumored to be?

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Recensione:

Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly called reality. This account of lives, transformed and ruined by the triumph of a totalitarian rule is a timely reminder of how moral and intellectual laziness and apathy can pave the road to the reign of terror brought on by such a system.” AZAR NAFISI, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran

Visa for Avalon is a visionary and haunting novel. Bryher wrote this book forty years ago, but it speak directly to the politics of today. It’s a warning against apathy and should be read by anyone who’s worried about civil rights.” GRACE PALEY

Visa for Avalon is a stark reminder of all that we stand to lose if we don’t protect our civil liberties. Thank you, Paris Press, for bring this long-neglected novel back into print. We need it today.” BARBARA EHRENREICH, author of NICKEL AND DIMED

Bryher’s writing is frustratingly plain at times, in the way that the chimes of a large bell can be annoying because they ring so clear and so true.” LOS ANGELES TIMES

A suggestive and beguiling fiction by one of the twentieth century’s most interest artistic figures. The Paris Press should be thanked for republishing it.” MARGARET ATWOOD, THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

Paris Press is to be applauded for reissuing Visa for Avalon.” PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
This is an inspired and timely resurrection of an incisive and provocative fable of the high cost of apathy and the insidiousness of fascism, an intriguing progenitor of Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, and readers will find the accompanying profile of Bryher equally compelling.” BOOKLIST

Bryher’s novel was timely in the cold war years when she write it, and it is timely now.” WOMEN’S REVIEW OF BOOKS

Just as the title is rich in implication, so too is the novel’s every detail and seemingly casual observation.” THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

"This subtly chilling novel is not easily laid down. With brilliant economy and suspense, it depicts a fascist movement transforming the lives of ordinary people who merely wanted to be let alone. Prescient as Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Visa for Avalon could hardly be more timely here and now." ADRIENNE RICH

. . . An enchantment a journey and warning into the future . . . There is no one writing English fiction today who can say so much within a few magnificently chosen words.” HORACE GREGORY

L'autore:

Bryher (1894-1983) wrote many critically acclaimed novels and memoirs during her lifetime. She was deeply involved in film, politics, and psychology. She funded Contact Editions, and edited Life and Letters To-day and the first English film journal, Close Up. She was the longtime companion of the poet H.D., and a benefactor of numerous writers, artists, psychoanalysts, and culture icons, including Marianne Moore, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, and Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company.

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• Editore: Wesleyan Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 193046407X
• ISBN 13: 9781930464070
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 157