Bridge: American Reader (Paperback), cartea 23
Autor Robert Thomasen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 oct 2014
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Literary Award (2015)
WINNER OF THE 2015 PEN CENTER USA LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION
Set in modern-day San Francisco, this obsessive fiction probes the stormy life of Alice, a passionate and whip-smart young woman who works at a law firm. Alice faces despair and occasional rapture as she struggles with simultaneously real and hallucinated relationships, including a tumultuous romance with her co-worker David, and an escalating war with her supervisor Fran. In lyrical prose, Bridge exposes a raw, brilliant, and furious mind as it treads the jagged terrain of mental illness, murder, and suicide—to be or not to be.
Robert Thomas is the author of Door to Door (2002, Fordham University Press), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize, as well as Dragging the Lake (2006, Carnegie Mellon University Press). He has received a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and won a Pushcart Prize. He lives with his wife in Oakland, California, and works as a legal secretary in San Francisco.
Set in modern-day San Francisco, this obsessive fiction probes the stormy life of Alice, a passionate and whip-smart young woman who works at a law firm. Alice faces despair and occasional rapture as she struggles with simultaneously real and hallucinated relationships, including a tumultuous romance with her co-worker David, and an escalating war with her supervisor Fran. In lyrical prose, Bridge exposes a raw, brilliant, and furious mind as it treads the jagged terrain of mental illness, murder, and suicide—to be or not to be.
Robert Thomas is the author of Door to Door (2002, Fordham University Press), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize, as well as Dragging the Lake (2006, Carnegie Mellon University Press). He has received a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and won a Pushcart Prize. He lives with his wife in Oakland, California, and works as a legal secretary in San Francisco.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781938160486
ISBN-10: 1938160487
Pagini: 156
Dimensiuni: 130 x 201 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: BOA Editions
Seria American Reader (Paperback)
ISBN-10: 1938160487
Pagini: 156
Dimensiuni: 130 x 201 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: BOA Editions
Seria American Reader (Paperback)
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Recenzii
“Bridge ... may borrow a weapon, along with a taut style and a slender economy, from James M. Cain, but this is no crime story. Instead, and perhaps incongruously, it is a quiet, interior novel, a character study in which the prose plays a bigger role than the plot. What happens in the story is minimal: San Francisco legal secretary Alice falls in love with her married colleague David, antagonizes her supervisor, Fran, and buys that gun. But how it happens—and how Alice describes it happening—is striking, unsettling and profound ... Alice reminds us of the truth about how hard it can be for anyone who’s really paying attention to survive in a world composed of such extremes of beauty and indifference." —San Francisco Chronicle
"Crisp, concise, emotionally explosive riffs, Thomas’s 56 brief, linked stories are linguistic tours de force that together form an unsettling character study ... Alice leads her lonely life in what she calls the “Goldilocks Zone”: not too crazy, not too sane—a just-right (if tenuous) balance between calm and losing it ... Thomas has a gift for using a minimum of words with maximum effect." —Publishers Weekly Starred Review
"A novel in stories that brings readers deep into the eccentric and neurotic mind of its protagonist. Thomas links these 56 stories with a consistent voice. Alice—a lonely, at times suicidal woman—narrates the minutiae of her life with insight and wit ... Thomas’ prose in these episodic vignettes is tight and vivid. In each two-to-three page installment, solipsistic Alice is given black humor and memorable one-liners ... With emotional resonance, an innovative structure and a unique narrator, Thomas crafts a book that's greater than the sum of its parts." —Kirkus Review
“Made up of fifty-six two-to-five page exercises in associative thinking—vibrant thought connecting vibrant thought—Robert Thomas's first novel Bridge will delight the more experimentally inclined, analytical reader. Bridge is an engaging, meandering exploration of the mind of the novel's protagonist, Alice, as she struggles with thoughts of suicide; her affection for her married co-worker, David; and her antagonistic relationship with her supervisor, Fran.” —Bookslut
“Ever wonder what that quiet girl in the office is thinking? The serial monologues of Alice, self-described as an ‘irrational prime number,’ place us inside a wholly original, slightly suicidal, radically unconventional mind: precariously balanced, yet how far down she can see without falling. In this poet’s tour de force fiction, Thomas’ imaginative language created in me, to transplant his phrase, ‘what medical books accurately term prolonged dazzle.’” —Eleanor Wilner, Ploughshares
"If you’re not stunned by the language of this poet’s novel, you will be by the plot, a monologue of suspense and grief; or by the narrator, the painfully smart and self-aware Alice." —Laurie Greer, Politics and Prose
"Crisp, concise, emotionally explosive riffs, Thomas’s 56 brief, linked stories are linguistic tours de force that together form an unsettling character study ... Alice leads her lonely life in what she calls the “Goldilocks Zone”: not too crazy, not too sane—a just-right (if tenuous) balance between calm and losing it ... Thomas has a gift for using a minimum of words with maximum effect." —Publishers Weekly Starred Review
"A novel in stories that brings readers deep into the eccentric and neurotic mind of its protagonist. Thomas links these 56 stories with a consistent voice. Alice—a lonely, at times suicidal woman—narrates the minutiae of her life with insight and wit ... Thomas’ prose in these episodic vignettes is tight and vivid. In each two-to-three page installment, solipsistic Alice is given black humor and memorable one-liners ... With emotional resonance, an innovative structure and a unique narrator, Thomas crafts a book that's greater than the sum of its parts." —Kirkus Review
“Made up of fifty-six two-to-five page exercises in associative thinking—vibrant thought connecting vibrant thought—Robert Thomas's first novel Bridge will delight the more experimentally inclined, analytical reader. Bridge is an engaging, meandering exploration of the mind of the novel's protagonist, Alice, as she struggles with thoughts of suicide; her affection for her married co-worker, David; and her antagonistic relationship with her supervisor, Fran.” —Bookslut
“Ever wonder what that quiet girl in the office is thinking? The serial monologues of Alice, self-described as an ‘irrational prime number,’ place us inside a wholly original, slightly suicidal, radically unconventional mind: precariously balanced, yet how far down she can see without falling. In this poet’s tour de force fiction, Thomas’ imaginative language created in me, to transplant his phrase, ‘what medical books accurately term prolonged dazzle.’” —Eleanor Wilner, Ploughshares
"If you’re not stunned by the language of this poet’s novel, you will be by the plot, a monologue of suspense and grief; or by the narrator, the painfully smart and self-aware Alice." —Laurie Greer, Politics and Prose
Notă biografică
Robert Thomas is the author of Door to Door (2002, Fordham University Press), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize, and Dragging the Lake (2006, Carnegie Mellon University Press). He has received a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and won a Pushcart Prize. He lives with his wife in Oakland, California, and works as a legal secretary in San Francisco.
Cuprins
CONTENTS
Picnic 1
Catchy Tunes 3
Albino 5
Marine Biology 7
Frankie and Johnny 9
The Gift 11
Antifreeze 13
Vissi d¿arte 15
And Counting 17
Blue Angel 19
Liberty Bell 21
The Shooting Party 23
Leverage 25
Naming a Baby 27
Bridge 29
Ride of the Valkyrie 31
The Bone 33
Word Processing 35
Something Happens 37
Cause and Effect 39
Annie Hall 41
Your Majesty 43
The Lion¿s Head 45
Cold War 47
Red Planet 49
The Goldilocks Zone 51
The Wall 53
New York 55
Baby¿s Breath 57
Snowflakes 59
Jury 61
Of My Peers 63
Shot in the Dark 66
Capital Punishment 68
The Carrier 70
The Abysmal Plain of the Sea 72
White Noise 74
Shadow Play 76
Collateral Damage 79
Songbird 82
I¿m Not There 84
Rainforest 86
The Wooden Horse 88
The Light of Reason 90
Vessel of Fire 92
Apocalypse 94
Kali 96
Joe Blow From Kokomo 97
Exhibits 100
Flowchart 102
Stonehenge 105
Camera Obscura 109
Body Integrity Identity Disorder 111
The Rock 114
Picnic 1
Catchy Tunes 3
Albino 5
Marine Biology 7
Frankie and Johnny 9
The Gift 11
Antifreeze 13
Vissi d¿arte 15
And Counting 17
Blue Angel 19
Liberty Bell 21
The Shooting Party 23
Leverage 25
Naming a Baby 27
Bridge 29
Ride of the Valkyrie 31
The Bone 33
Word Processing 35
Something Happens 37
Cause and Effect 39
Annie Hall 41
Your Majesty 43
The Lion¿s Head 45
Cold War 47
Red Planet 49
The Goldilocks Zone 51
The Wall 53
New York 55
Baby¿s Breath 57
Snowflakes 59
Jury 61
Of My Peers 63
Shot in the Dark 66
Capital Punishment 68
The Carrier 70
The Abysmal Plain of the Sea 72
White Noise 74
Shadow Play 76
Collateral Damage 79
Songbird 82
I¿m Not There 84
Rainforest 86
The Wooden Horse 88
The Light of Reason 90
Vessel of Fire 92
Apocalypse 94
Kali 96
Joe Blow From Kokomo 97
Exhibits 100
Flowchart 102
Stonehenge 105
Camera Obscura 109
Body Integrity Identity Disorder 111
The Rock 114
Descriere
Bridge exposes a brilliant, furious mind treading the jagged terrain of mental illness, murder, and suicide in modern-day San Francisco.
Premii
- Literary Award Winner, 2015