American Innovations: Stories
Autor Rivka Galchenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mai 2015
A BRILLIANT NEW COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES FROM THE "CONSPICUOUSLY TALENTED" ("TIME") RIVKA GALCHEN
Winner of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award
A "New York Times Book Review" Notable Book
In one of the intensely imaginative stories in Rivka Galchen's "American Innovations," a young woman's furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator feels compelled to promise to deliver a takeout order that has incorrectly been phoned in to her. In a third, the petty details of a property transaction illuminate the complicated pains and loves of a family.
The tales in this groundbreaking collection are secretly in conversation with canonical stories, reimagined from the perspective of female characters. Just as Wallace Stevens's "Anecdote of the Jar" responds to John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn," Galchen's "The Lost Order" covertly recapitulates James Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," while "The Region of Unlikeness" is a smoky and playful mirror to Jorge Luis Borges's "The Aleph." The title story, "American Innovations," revisits Nikolai Gogol's "The Nose."
By turns realistic, fantastical, witty, and lyrical, these marvelously uneasy stories are deeply emotional and written in exuberant, pitch-perfect prose. Whether exploring the tensions in a mother-daughter relationship or the finer points of time travel, Galchen is a writer like none other today.
Toate formatele și edițiile | Preț | Express |
---|---|---|
Paperback (2) | 62.54 lei 6-8 săpt. | |
Picador USA – 4 mai 2015 | 94.73 lei 3-5 săpt. | |
HarperCollins Publishers – 6 mai 2015 | 62.54 lei 6-8 săpt. |
Preț: 94.73 lei
Nou
18.13€ • 18.83$ • 15.06£
Carte disponibilă
Livrare economică 13-27 ianuarie 25
Specificații
ISBN-10: 1250069238
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 127 x 198 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Picador USA
Notă biografică
Cuprins
CONTENTS
1. The Lost Order
2. The Region of Unlikeness
3. Sticker Shock
4. American Innovations
5. Wild Berry Blue
6. The Entire Northern Side Was Covered with Fire
7. Read Estate
8. Dean of the Arts
9. The Late Novels of Gene Hackman
10. Once an Empire
Acknowledgements
Descriere
A short-story collection from one of America's brightest young talents.