Fitzcarraldo editions jul 2019 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - WINNER OF THE FITZCARRALDO EDITIONS ESSAY PRIZE IN 2018: Surrender won the third annual Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize in 2018, an annual competition for British and Irish writers yet to have secured a publishing deal, rewarding the best proposal for a book-length essay. The prize, which was judged by Joanna Biggs, Brian Dillon, Joanna Kavenna, Paul Keegan and Jacques Testard, was set up to find the best emerging essay writers and aims to reward essays that explore and expand the possibilities of the form. Initially made possible by an Arts Council Grant in 2015, it provides the winning author with their first experiences of publishing a book, from the planning, research and writing of it through to the editing, production and publicity stages. The book will then be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. A NARRATIVE NONFICTION WORK SET IN MONTANA: Joanna Pocock's debut is a work of narrative nonfiction nature writing in the style of Barry Lopez and Annie Dillard, set in Montana.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Animalia retraces the history of a modest peasant family through the twentieth century as they develop their small plot of land into an intensive pig farm. In an environment dominated by the omnipresence of animals, five generations endure the cataclysm of war, economic disasters, and the emergence of a brutal industrialism reflecting an ancestral tendency to violence. Only the enchanted realm of childhood-that of Eleonore, the matriarch, and that of Jerome, the last in the lineage-and the innate freedom of the animals offer any respite from the visible barbarity of humanity. Written in shifting prose that reflects the passage of time, with shades of Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Cormac McCarthy, Animalia is a powerful novel about man's desire to conquer nature and the transmission of violence from one generation to the next. …