A Saint from Texas
Autor Edmund Whiteen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 aug 2020
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781526600431
ISBN-10: 1526600439
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1526600439
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
An
award-winning
and
acclaimed
writer,
White
is
the
recipient
of
a
Guggenheim
Fellowship
(recommended
by
Susan
Sontag),
the
PEN/
Saul
Bellow
Award
for
Achievement
in
American
Fiction,
the
Award
for
Literature
from
the
American
Academy
of
Arts
and
Letters,
and,
most
recently,
the
2019
Medal
for
Distinguished
Contribution
to
American
Letters
from
the
National
Book
Foundation
Notă biografică
Edmund
White
is
an
award-winning
and
prolific
writer.
His
work,
which
includes
the
novelOur
Young
Manand
the
memoirThe
Flâneur,
has
revitalised
American
literature,
breaking
down
boundaries
of
class,
sexuality
and
power.
His
accolades
include
the
PEN/Saul
Bellow
Award
for
achievement
in
American
fiction,
and
a
Guggenheim
Fellowship
under
the
recommendation
of
Susan
Sontag.
White
lives
in
New
York.
Recenzii
At
once
in
thrall
to
the
shimmering
artifice
of
glamour
yet
also
incisive
about
the
tragedy
of
human
existence,A
Saint
from
Texasis
a
worldly
wise
delight
Steeped in both scandal and erudition . It's a story of self-discovery: sinful, erotic, compellingly furtive, in which the sisters live out negative images of each other's lives, a world apart but joined at the soul . There's a gusto to White's prose . Demystifying everything from lesbian love to communion wafers, it's a gourmand's feast of earthly delights
A richly symbolic tale of twin sisters ...A Saint from Texasmakes explicit what was once only hinted at, namely how potent an influence religion has been on the imagination of the quintessential gay writer of our time . Yvette's faith is evoked so convincingly because White has all along been writing with his own sense of life's grace
The pagan and the saintly contend in this audacious new novel by Edmund White whose sympathy for his Texas-born characters radiates like a kind of blessing through their myriad adventures - sacred as well as secular, and always sensuously alive
Keenly observed and delightfully irreverent
At once funny and moving, this is a ribald novel of the miraculous - a comic but searing exploration of sin and envy
Like a waltz that goes out of control, this is a wild, dizzying, joyful romp.A Saint from Texasis a daring and exuberant novel in the spirit ofTristram Shandy, but it is also a brilliantly observed story about how we find ourselves by losing ourselves, about family bonds and how the harm done to us can warp us into something new. I loved it
An epic novel
Edmund White's narrative brilliance ... give[s] us the divinely well-told tale of identical twins who set out to answer the question: Can Texas be transcended? ... White's miracle is how he manages to deliver an epic that covers five decades, several precisely observed cultures and a host of indelible characters in a little under 300 pages ... White's tale is exactly like a stroll through Le Jardin des Tuileries - if the garden had been planted with land mines instead of tulips . The rocket fuel that propels these abrupt plot twists past the slightest suspicion of implausibility is the author's trademark narrative virtuosity and high-octane erudition
A literary firecracker .A Saint From Texasdoes a wonderful job exploring how siblings relate to each other and how they rely on each other to navigate the world. It's a dramatic departure from White's previous novels, but it's just as elegantly crafted as its predecessors. White writes with a deep empathy for his characters in prose that's both playful and self-assured; the result is another brilliant accomplishment from one of the country's most indispensable writers
A mesmerising sensual history of identical twin sisters who leave their booming Texas oil town for Paris and a Colombian convent . Bombshell revelations abound when the narrative reaches its boiling point, which White handles with aplomb. Equally tender and salacious, White's deeply satisfying character study demonstrates his profound abilities
One of the three or four most virtuosic living writers of sentences in the English language
Edmund White has three voices. First there is the storyteller: relaxed, conversational, an anecdotalist, an inspired flaneur. Then there is the poet: on every page there lies in wait a metaphor of startling precision, an image that holds and reattracts the eye. And then there is the laic philosopher, who observes human life from the highest attitudes, held aloft by vast infusions of erudition and experience
Steeped in both scandal and erudition . It's a story of self-discovery: sinful, erotic, compellingly furtive, in which the sisters live out negative images of each other's lives, a world apart but joined at the soul . There's a gusto to White's prose . Demystifying everything from lesbian love to communion wafers, it's a gourmand's feast of earthly delights
A richly symbolic tale of twin sisters ...A Saint from Texasmakes explicit what was once only hinted at, namely how potent an influence religion has been on the imagination of the quintessential gay writer of our time . Yvette's faith is evoked so convincingly because White has all along been writing with his own sense of life's grace
The pagan and the saintly contend in this audacious new novel by Edmund White whose sympathy for his Texas-born characters radiates like a kind of blessing through their myriad adventures - sacred as well as secular, and always sensuously alive
Keenly observed and delightfully irreverent
At once funny and moving, this is a ribald novel of the miraculous - a comic but searing exploration of sin and envy
Like a waltz that goes out of control, this is a wild, dizzying, joyful romp.A Saint from Texasis a daring and exuberant novel in the spirit ofTristram Shandy, but it is also a brilliantly observed story about how we find ourselves by losing ourselves, about family bonds and how the harm done to us can warp us into something new. I loved it
An epic novel
Edmund White's narrative brilliance ... give[s] us the divinely well-told tale of identical twins who set out to answer the question: Can Texas be transcended? ... White's miracle is how he manages to deliver an epic that covers five decades, several precisely observed cultures and a host of indelible characters in a little under 300 pages ... White's tale is exactly like a stroll through Le Jardin des Tuileries - if the garden had been planted with land mines instead of tulips . The rocket fuel that propels these abrupt plot twists past the slightest suspicion of implausibility is the author's trademark narrative virtuosity and high-octane erudition
A literary firecracker .A Saint From Texasdoes a wonderful job exploring how siblings relate to each other and how they rely on each other to navigate the world. It's a dramatic departure from White's previous novels, but it's just as elegantly crafted as its predecessors. White writes with a deep empathy for his characters in prose that's both playful and self-assured; the result is another brilliant accomplishment from one of the country's most indispensable writers
A mesmerising sensual history of identical twin sisters who leave their booming Texas oil town for Paris and a Colombian convent . Bombshell revelations abound when the narrative reaches its boiling point, which White handles with aplomb. Equally tender and salacious, White's deeply satisfying character study demonstrates his profound abilities
One of the three or four most virtuosic living writers of sentences in the English language
Edmund White has three voices. First there is the storyteller: relaxed, conversational, an anecdotalist, an inspired flaneur. Then there is the poet: on every page there lies in wait a metaphor of startling precision, an image that holds and reattracts the eye. And then there is the laic philosopher, who observes human life from the highest attitudes, held aloft by vast infusions of erudition and experience