Voodoo Heart: Stories

Snyder, Scott

ISBN 10: 0385338422 / ISBN 13: 9780385338424

Editore: Random House Publishing Group, 2007

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Riassunto:

Scott Snyder’s protagonists inhabit a playfully deranged fictional world in which a Wall Street trader can find himself armed with a speargun, guarding a Dumpster outside a pawnshop in Florida; or an employee at Niagara Falls (his job: watching for jumpers) will take off in a car after a blimp in which his girlfriend has escaped. But in Snyder’s wondrous imagination there’s a thin membrane between the whimsical and the disturbing: the unlikely affair between a famous actress—in hiding after surgery—and a sporting goods salesman takes an ominous turn just as she begins to heal; an engaged couple’s relationship is fractured when one of them becomes obsessed with an inmate at the women’s prison next door.

Dark, funny, powerful, this debut collection underscores the remarkable gifts of a fiercely original young writer.

Informazioni sull'autore: Scott Snyder has been published in Zoetrope, One Story, Tin House, Epoch, and other journals. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York.

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Titolo: Voodoo Heart: Stories
Casa editrice: Random House Publishing Group
Data di pubblicazione: 2007
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Good