Cleanness - Softcover

Greenwell, Garth

 
9781509874675: Cleanness
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1509874674 ISBN 13: 9781509874675
Verlag: Picador, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Written in precise, elegant prose, Garth Greenwell's Cleanness is an almost unbearably poignant book about a man whose life, like so many, has been transformed by the discovery and loss of love.

‘This is an exceptional work of fiction, which places Greenwell among the very best contemporary novelists’ – The i

Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, unrelenting winds lash the city, political protesters flood the streets with song.

Amid this disquiet, a young American teacher prepares to leave the place he’s come to call home. In a reflective mood, heightened by his imminent departure, he grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad, each revealing startling insights about what it means to seek connection: with those we love, with the places we inhabit and with ourselves.

Chosen as a book of the year in the New Yorker, Daily Telegraph, Observer, New York Times, BBC, TIME and Irish Times.
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020.
Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Garth Greenwell is the author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year. His third novel, Small Rain, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. His critical writing appears widely, and he writes regularly about culture for the Substack newsletter To a Green Thought. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.

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‘This is an exceptional work of fiction, which places Greenwell among the very best contemporary novelists.’ The i

Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, unrelenting winds lash the city, political protesters flood the streets with song.

Amid this disquiet, a young American teacher prepares to leave the place he’s come to call home. In a reflective mood, heightened by his imminent departure, he grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad, each revealing startling insights about what it means to seek connection: with those we love, with the places we inhabit and with ourselves.

Written in precise, elegant prose, Cleanness is an almost unbearably poignant book about a man whose life, like so many, has been transformed by the discovery and loss of love.

‘Greenwell may be the finest writer of sex currently at work. He is certainly the most exhilarating’ Times Literary Supplement

‘Compassion, that supreme quality in a fiction writer, is a main source of Greenwell’s power’ Sigrid Nunez, New York Review of Books

‘Incandescent . . . Greenwell has an uncanny gift, one that comes along rarely’ New York Times

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Verlag
Picador
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1509874674
ISBN 13 
9781509874675
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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