Everything I Found on the Beach
Autor Cynan Jonesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 apr 2016
Praise for Cynan Jones:
"[A] piercing novella. . . . Like Cormac McCarthy, Jones can make the everyday sound fraught and biblical." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Jones's perfectly pitched novel will appeal to anyone looking beyond sheer thrills." —Library Journal
"This slim volume has all the gravity of a black hole, and reading it is like standing on the event horizon. . . . It's like a more beautiful Cormac McCarthy; a darker W.H. Auden." —Elliot Bay Book Company
“Jones is a Welsh writer who has been compared to Cormac McCarthy, but his sparse style also recalls Ernest Hemingway.” —Kirkus, "Foreign Influence"
"There's nothing bucolic about this elemental, extraordinary tale of good and evil." —Shelf Awareness
“Jones deftly explores his characters’ motives, particularly the hope they cling to despite the risks they take.” —Booklist
“It’s as if the novel is the slowed-down spinning of a bullet through the grooves of a barrel, waiting to be released into the world.” —Vol. 1 Brooklyn
“Darkly luminous . . . [Jones] builds tension in an ultimately gripping and important story that transcends its own bleakness.” —Library Journal
When a net is set, and that's the way you choose, you'll hit it. Hold, a Welsh fisherman, Grzegorz, a Polish migrant worker, and Stringer, an Irish gangster, all want the chance to make their lives better. One kilo of cocaine and the sea tie them together in a fatal series of decisions.
Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron on the west coast of Wales in 1975. He is the author of four short novels, most recently The Dig (Coffee House Press, 2014), which won a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize in 2014 and the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize 2015. His work has been translated into several languages, and short stories have aired on BBC Radio and appeared in a number of anthologies and publications including Granta.Everything I Found on the Beach is the second of three United States releases of his work by Coffee House Press.
"[A] piercing novella. . . . Like Cormac McCarthy, Jones can make the everyday sound fraught and biblical." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Jones's perfectly pitched novel will appeal to anyone looking beyond sheer thrills." —Library Journal
"This slim volume has all the gravity of a black hole, and reading it is like standing on the event horizon. . . . It's like a more beautiful Cormac McCarthy; a darker W.H. Auden." —Elliot Bay Book Company
“Jones is a Welsh writer who has been compared to Cormac McCarthy, but his sparse style also recalls Ernest Hemingway.” —Kirkus, "Foreign Influence"
"There's nothing bucolic about this elemental, extraordinary tale of good and evil." —Shelf Awareness
“Jones deftly explores his characters’ motives, particularly the hope they cling to despite the risks they take.” —Booklist
“It’s as if the novel is the slowed-down spinning of a bullet through the grooves of a barrel, waiting to be released into the world.” —Vol. 1 Brooklyn
“Darkly luminous . . . [Jones] builds tension in an ultimately gripping and important story that transcends its own bleakness.” —Library Journal
When a net is set, and that's the way you choose, you'll hit it. Hold, a Welsh fisherman, Grzegorz, a Polish migrant worker, and Stringer, an Irish gangster, all want the chance to make their lives better. One kilo of cocaine and the sea tie them together in a fatal series of decisions.
Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron on the west coast of Wales in 1975. He is the author of four short novels, most recently The Dig (Coffee House Press, 2014), which won a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize in 2014 and the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize 2015. His work has been translated into several languages, and short stories have aired on BBC Radio and appeared in a number of anthologies and publications including Granta.Everything I Found on the Beach is the second of three United States releases of his work by Coffee House Press.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781566894364
ISBN-10: 1566894360
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 127 x 197 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Coffee House Press
Colecția Coffee House Press
ISBN-10: 1566894360
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 127 x 197 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Coffee House Press
Colecția Coffee House Press
Recenzii
“The novel as a whole illuminates the inner, fragile struggles of men and the dangerous visible struggles that result when certain paths are chosen.” —NewPages
“As a novel full of skewed moral judgments and reckless acts, it has plenty of emotional clout and immense narrative pull. . . . There are brief spurts of bloody, visceral prose — fish gutted, rabbits skinned, cattle stunned — along with moments of striking lyricism.”—Star Tribune
"Jones strips his prose to the heartbeat minimum. Its plaintive nudity is like the sea itself, so present in this novel, 'like some broken metronome for the earth.'"—Cleaver Magazine
“Jones offers gorgeous observation of nature’s indifference to human intervention, and juxtaposes it with characters who define themselves by their inability to influence the manmade systems by which they are held in check. There is no hope—until there is.” —Heavy Feather
"For those of us who write, tell and read stories to make sense of the world, I feel this short novel is a work of great insight. It does that all-too-rare thing which is to spool on in your mind after you’ve read it.” —Electric Literature
“Raw, abrasive, and compact, Jones’ short novels carry a muscular, confident tone.”—Hazel & Wren
“A heartbreakingly relatable narrative.”—Cultured Vultures
"When it comes to the act of writing itself, you just have to forget labels exist and listen to the demands of the story.” —Publisher's Weekly
"Filled with poverty, heartbreak, and danger, Jones’ novel poses some very simple but timeless questions." —Vol. 1 Brooklyn
“My old grandmother had a pressure cooker built of fine and heavy metal that would hop and bang on the stove as it worked but only slowly, reluctantly, it seemed, offer itself the relief of a strong, composed scream. In the work of Cynan Jones—never more so than in Everything I Found on the Beach—we find a similar mechanism at play, except that it is the pages, full of sturdily encased fury, that hop and bang, and it is us at the book’s end who turn to wall or pillow or wide, empty world and scream. This is powerful writing. Let there be no doubt about it.”—Laird Hunt
“Everything I Found on the Beach, a compact but powerful novel by Cynan Jones, might just be one of the rawest and honest interpretations of what the sea is to us.”—Summerset Review
“As a novel full of skewed moral judgments and reckless acts, it has plenty of emotional clout and immense narrative pull. . . . There are brief spurts of bloody, visceral prose — fish gutted, rabbits skinned, cattle stunned — along with moments of striking lyricism.”—Star Tribune
"Jones strips his prose to the heartbeat minimum. Its plaintive nudity is like the sea itself, so present in this novel, 'like some broken metronome for the earth.'"—Cleaver Magazine
“Jones offers gorgeous observation of nature’s indifference to human intervention, and juxtaposes it with characters who define themselves by their inability to influence the manmade systems by which they are held in check. There is no hope—until there is.” —Heavy Feather
"For those of us who write, tell and read stories to make sense of the world, I feel this short novel is a work of great insight. It does that all-too-rare thing which is to spool on in your mind after you’ve read it.” —Electric Literature
“Raw, abrasive, and compact, Jones’ short novels carry a muscular, confident tone.”—Hazel & Wren
“A heartbreakingly relatable narrative.”—Cultured Vultures
"When it comes to the act of writing itself, you just have to forget labels exist and listen to the demands of the story.” —Publisher's Weekly
"Filled with poverty, heartbreak, and danger, Jones’ novel poses some very simple but timeless questions." —Vol. 1 Brooklyn
“My old grandmother had a pressure cooker built of fine and heavy metal that would hop and bang on the stove as it worked but only slowly, reluctantly, it seemed, offer itself the relief of a strong, composed scream. In the work of Cynan Jones—never more so than in Everything I Found on the Beach—we find a similar mechanism at play, except that it is the pages, full of sturdily encased fury, that hop and bang, and it is us at the book’s end who turn to wall or pillow or wide, empty world and scream. This is powerful writing. Let there be no doubt about it.”—Laird Hunt
“Everything I Found on the Beach, a compact but powerful novel by Cynan Jones, might just be one of the rawest and honest interpretations of what the sea is to us.”—Summerset Review
Notă biografică
Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron on the west coast of Wales in 1975. He is the author of four short novels, most recently The Dig (Coffee House Press, 2014), which won a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize in 2014 and the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize 2015. His work has been translated into several languages, and short stories have aired on BBC Radio and appeared in a number of anthologies and publications including Granta. Everything I Found on the Beach is the second of three US releases of his work by Coffee House Press.
Descriere
Three men, each trying to break free from desperate circumstances, tied together by one kilo of cocaine and the sea.