Graywolf press sep 2017 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry>'[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy.'--The New Yorker Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love, and longevity they deserved here on earth. Smith turns then to desire, mortality--the dangers experienced in skin and body and blood--and a diagnosis of HIV positive. 'Some of us are killed / in pieces,' Smith writes, 'some of us all at once.' Don't Call Us Dead is an astonishing and ambitious collection, one that confronts, praises, and rebukes America--'Dear White America'--where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A dark-hued, hybrid novel by a writer who 'delivers our culture back to us, made entirely new' (A. M. Homes) In The Complete Ballet, John Haskell choreographs an intricate and irresistible pas de deux in which fiction and criticism come together to create a new kind of story. Fueled by the dramatic retelling of five romantic ballets, and interwoven with a contemporary story about a man whose daunting gambling debt pushes him to the edge of his own abyss, it is both a pulpy entertainment and a meditation on the physicality--and psychology--of dance. The unnamed narrator finds himself inexorably drawn back to the pre-cell phone world of Technicolor Los Angeles, to a time when the tragedies of his life were about to collide. Working as a part-time masseur in Hollywood, he attends an underground poker game with his friend Cosmo, a strip-club entrepreneur. What happens there hurtles the narrator down the road and into the room where the novel's violent and surreal showdown leaves him a different person. As the narrator revisits his past, he simultaneously inhabits and reconstructs the mythic stories of ballet, assessing along the way the lives and obsessions of Nijinsky and Balanchine, Pavlova and Fonteyn, Joseph Cornell and the story's presiding spirit, the film director John Cassavetes. This compulsively readable fiction is ultimately a profound and haunting consideration of the nature of art and identity.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An atmospheric and affecting novel set in rural Norway, by the award-winning author of Before I BurnIn the waning days of the German occupation of Norway, Karin and her husband move from Oslo to a tiny village in the south with their young son, the narrator. There they aim to live out their dream of caring for those who can't look after themselves. They have spent months building a modest house with rooms for patients, and it's soon filled with three adult men who are psychologically unstable--including Karin's uncle Josef, who suffered a head injury in a carriage accident--and five siblings whose parents have been declared unfit, and who are the subjects of much conversation in the village. This small and idiosyncratic community persists for nearly three decades.After his parents' deaths, the son returns to clean out this unusual home. The objects of his childhood retain a talisman-like power over him, and key objects--including an orange crate where he and his sister slept as infants, Josef's medal of honor, his mother's beloved piano, and many others--unlock vivid memories. In recounting the ways that the siblings both are and are not a part of his family, he reveals his special relationship with Ingrid, who cannot speak, and his sister's accidental death, which occurred when they were playing together, and its quiet yet tragic effects on the extended family.With warmth, gentle humor, and deep compassion, Gaute Heivoll portrays an unconventional family as it navigates an uncertain and often unkind world. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Um die verbotenen Orte ihrer Kindheit zu sehen, unternahm Kapka Kassabova eine Reise in ihre Heimat. Was sie entdeckte, waren Wälder, Gebirge und Landschaften, die ihr Herz stehenbleiben ließen, so schön sind sie. Dort, wo Bulgarien, Griechenland und die Türkei aufeinandertreffen, das alte Thrakien. Bis 1989 war dieses Gebiet eine 'verdunkelte, bewaldete Berliner Mauer'. Und jetzt Sie sieht die Wälder des Strandscha-Gebirges und menschenleere Dörfer in den Rhodopen, sie trifft Schmuggler, Wilderer und ganz normale Leute, die ihr Geschichten erzählen über Liebe und Tod, das Einst und das Jetzt und wie es ist, vom Rand plötzlich in die Mitte der Welt gerückt worden zu sein.…