Flying Shoes
Autor Lisa Howorthen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 iun 2015
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781620403037
ISBN-10: 162040303X
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 162040303X
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Caracteristici
Fabulously connected author: Lisa Howorth is the co-owner of the legendary Square Books in Oxford, MI (named by PW as the #1 Bookstore in America in 2013). She knows EVERYBODY, from authors to sales reps to fellow bookstore owners across the country. (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/garden/25square.html?_r=2 )
Notă biografică
Lisa Howorth was born in Washington, D.C., where her family has lived for four generations. She moved to Oxford, Mississippi, where she married her husband, Richard, and raised their three children. They opened Square Books (named by Publishers Weekly as the 2013 Bookstore of the Year) in 1979. She received the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts in 1996 and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship in 2007. Her writing has appeared in Garden & Gun and the Oxford American. This is her first novel.
Recenzii
Like all great stories from Mississippi, Flying Shoes never proceeds in a straight line. It twists and turns in order to notice what matters most in life, and then delivers us to exactly where we need to be. Those of us who have waited a long time for this book celebrate its arrival.
Lisa Howorth's dazzling verbal wit almost stops you in your tracks while you are flying along in this delicious prose. It is a scream--also heartbreaking, saucy, sassy, poignant, and triumphant. Mary Byrd is a bold, kooky, quirky character I won't forget. It has been a long time since I read a novel with such charm, generosity, humor, daring, and brilliance. It is just splendid.
Lisa Howorth's Flying Shoes braids a love knot of new South, old South, and haunted South that catches at the reader's heart, even as the humor and sadness of her rollicking prose has us slipping off our own shoes and moving to the music of her voice. Flying Shoes is exhilarating and brave, full of love and grief and the journeys we all make from past to present.
Flying Shoes offers a well-done portrait of a girl who survived a horrific tragedy and emerged in middle age with her empathy, sense of generosity and ability to forgive intact.
A potent mix of Southern melancholy and charm . . . Flying Shoes luxuriates in life's messiness--eccentric friends, freakish weather--and its sadness, too . . . A-.
Howorth writes with real flair . . . A memorable mosaic of a place, a time and a good-hearted woman at midlife, facing crises old and new.
[A] buzz-worthy debut.
Flying Shoes, the delicious first novel from Lisa Howorth . . . [is] funny, character-driven storytelling with crackling dialogue.
Lisa Howorth's bittersweet debut novel, Flying Shoes, is more about faith, human endurance and Southern traditions than it is about the abduction and murder of a 9-year-old boy . . . The real journey we take in this giddy, bighearted lifeboat of a novel is not toward death, but a wild ride into the irrepressible life that goes on in spite of it.
An entertaining, and enlightening journey along the interconnected lives of a distinctive cast of characters.
An impressive debut, with heart and soul, in a long tradition of Mississippi writers.
Worth the long wait and the hard-won lessons that Howorth translates into sparkling, fast, funny prose . . . You'll be so engrossed by Flying Shoes that you may wind up with a book-shaped sunburn across your face.
Flying Shoes is animated by Howorth's feel for the old--and new--South, and the slightly oddball characters who inhabit it.
A very funny novel.
Lisa Howorth's dazzling verbal wit almost stops you in your tracks while you are flying along in this delicious prose. It is a scream--also heartbreaking, saucy, sassy, poignant, and triumphant. Mary Byrd is a bold, kooky, quirky character I won't forget. It has been a long time since I read a novel with such charm, generosity, humor, daring, and brilliance. It is just splendid.
Lisa Howorth's Flying Shoes braids a love knot of new South, old South, and haunted South that catches at the reader's heart, even as the humor and sadness of her rollicking prose has us slipping off our own shoes and moving to the music of her voice. Flying Shoes is exhilarating and brave, full of love and grief and the journeys we all make from past to present.
Flying Shoes offers a well-done portrait of a girl who survived a horrific tragedy and emerged in middle age with her empathy, sense of generosity and ability to forgive intact.
A potent mix of Southern melancholy and charm . . . Flying Shoes luxuriates in life's messiness--eccentric friends, freakish weather--and its sadness, too . . . A-.
Howorth writes with real flair . . . A memorable mosaic of a place, a time and a good-hearted woman at midlife, facing crises old and new.
[A] buzz-worthy debut.
Flying Shoes, the delicious first novel from Lisa Howorth . . . [is] funny, character-driven storytelling with crackling dialogue.
Lisa Howorth's bittersweet debut novel, Flying Shoes, is more about faith, human endurance and Southern traditions than it is about the abduction and murder of a 9-year-old boy . . . The real journey we take in this giddy, bighearted lifeboat of a novel is not toward death, but a wild ride into the irrepressible life that goes on in spite of it.
An entertaining, and enlightening journey along the interconnected lives of a distinctive cast of characters.
An impressive debut, with heart and soul, in a long tradition of Mississippi writers.
Worth the long wait and the hard-won lessons that Howorth translates into sparkling, fast, funny prose . . . You'll be so engrossed by Flying Shoes that you may wind up with a book-shaped sunburn across your face.
Flying Shoes is animated by Howorth's feel for the old--and new--South, and the slightly oddball characters who inhabit it.
A very funny novel.