Deep vellum publishing jun 2013 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In ten of her best essay-stories, Giedra Radvilaviciute travels between the ridiculous and the sublime, the everyday and the extraordinary. In the place of plot, which the author claims to have had 'shot and buried with the proper honors,' the reader finds a dense, subtly interwoven structure of memory and reality, banalities and fantasy, all served up with a good dollop of absurdity and humor. We travel from the old town of Vilnius to Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood, from the seaside to a local delicatessen, all in a narrative collage as exquisitely detailed as a bouquet of flowers. As in all of her work, Radvilaviciute plays with the genres of fiction and nonfiction, essay and short story, leading the experiences of life to be 'unrecognizably transformed, like the flour, eggs, nuts, and apples in a cake.'.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A dizzying look at the backrooms of literature, with petty squabbles, long-nurtured grudges, envied or undeserved prizes, failing publishers, and self-important critics, 'The No Variations' is a serious game, or perhaps a frivolous tragedy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There is no doubt that Desmond Hogan is one of most remarkable literary talents to have come out of Ireland in the past half-century, and perhaps the best introduction to his work is through his magnificent short stories, widely anthologized and praised throughout the world. Focusing as always on the downtrodden and the eccentric, the misplaced and the dispossessed, Hogan's stories merge past with present, landscape with mindscape-distinctly Irish and burdened by history, while exhilaratingly and wholly universal and modern.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dentist Karl Meyer's worst nightmare comes true when his son, Ole-Jakob, takes his own life. This tragedy is the springboard for a complex novel posing essential questions about human experience: What does sorrow do to a person How can one live with the pain of unbearable loss How far can a man be driven by the grief and despair surrounding the death of his child A dark and harrowing story, drawing on elements from dreams, fairy tales, and horror stories, the better to explore the mysterious depths of sorrow and love, 'Through the Night' is Stig S terbakken at his best.…