Hex
Autor Rebecca Dinerstein Knighten Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 mar 2021
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781526611420
ISBN-10: 1526611422
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1526611422
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Funny, sharp and sinister, Hex will delight fans of Otessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Elif Batuman's The Idiot, Miranda July's The First Bad Man, and Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels
Notă biografică
Rebecca Dinerstein Knight is the author of the novel and screenplay The Sunlit Night, and a bilingual English-Norwegian collection of poems, Lofoten. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, and The New Yorker online, among others. She is a graduate of Yale and the NYU MFA program, and has received a Wallant Award for Jewish Literature. Born and raised in New York City, she lives in New Hampshire.
Recenzii
Sardonic and strange ... With its dark humour and loopy lyricism, it bewitches
A really beautiful book about obsession, longing and science . It's really beautiful and it does something I love, and can never say no to in books, which is a really complex relationship between two women . it's just gorgeous, really gorgeous on a sentence level . It's just extremely cool . that's the book that I'm reading and really love
Cannily explores both the poisons and the antidotes of love, ambition, mentorship, and yearning, in prose so lively that I often found myself laughing with pleasure. Hex is some dark and joyous witchery
Nell is an expelled Ph.D. candidate in biological science who is trying to set a speed record for the detoxification of poisonous plants. She's mesmerized by her mentor, Joan, and the woman's elegance and success. Surrounded by Nell's ex, her best friend, her best friend's boyfriend and Joan's husband, the two scientists are tangled together at the centre of a web of illicit relationships, grudges and obsessions
Strange and delightful . How could a reader - or a botany professor - not be charmed?
Academics tie themselves up into a pretzel of betrayal and desire in Rebecca Dinerstein Knight's propulsive second book, which reads a tiny bit like AS Byatt after dark . This is a bold and highly charged book that makes entertainment seem like not such a bad word
Hex is the sort of novel that almost has its own smell - humid and loamy, like a body after a morning spent bent over a garden patch. It's about Nell Barber, a recently expelled Ph.D. student secretly running her own experiments on poisonous botanicals in her apartment and vigorously lusting after her buttoned-up adviser and mentor. Sex practically pulses out of Nell as she fails her way into adulthood in this botanically entwined work of early-adult dissatisfaction
Swift-moving, sardonic . Dinerstein Knight paints a withering portrait of this web of toxic romances, and of the excesses of academia, while illustrating how both the heart and the mind can be broken and reshaped by changing circumstances
As precise as any scientific observation and far more tantalizing
Hex reads like a botanist's cross-breeding of The Secret History and Department of Speculation, full of brilliant and bodily obsession. Rebecca Dinerstein Knight is both a scientist and a magician, and she conjures this beautiful spell of a novel with total control
Hex is a book for those who feel adrift and solitary, for those who feel overwhelmed by themselves. Ultimately, it's a story about harnessing what is out of control - and learning that perhaps the only way to control a poisonous thing is to first embrace it
A book that examines our natural and absolutely astounding reactions to each other. The language of this novel is so finely tailored, so elegant yet organic, so absorbing that it takes the reader a moment to realize that this is not just a deliciously engaging tale of what it is like to be social and sexual, but that this writing is an actual incantation in itself. It is a beautiful, spooky spell that divides and processes our innate potential for poison or pleasure
Hex is sexy, unhinged, revelatory, so smart it gives the reader whiplash. It works on you like the poisonous plants that wind through the storyline, until you're as obsessed and intoxicated as the vivid characters that make up this love hexagon gone fascinatingly and beautifully wrong. I can't remember the last time I had so much fun reading a book or was so impressed by the wizardry of the language
Hex is a gem of a book: sharp and exquisite. Dinerstein Knight writes about women's obsession with devastating wisdom, insight, and humor. It is pure pleasure to be under her spell
Hex is neon-bright and guided by a fierce, scintillating interest in the innermost chambers of the human heart, where melancholic and bright humors mingle together. In every line you hear the voice of a writer who knows how to lead you expertly into the place where the story is most alive: spooky, shifty, darkly funny, and delectable in every way
Offbeat yet entirely precise; original and universal. Hex is a nut with sweet meat and a poison shell, at once disarming and quietly devastating. This is a book for anyone who's ever felt adrift, or felt alone, or loved someone out of reach, or all the above
Nell's intensity and the hypnotic, second-person prose convincingly render the protagonist's bewitched, self-destructive state. Readers who liked I Love Dick and want something more lurid will appreciate this
A joyfully deranged pleasure
A spellbinding novel of emotional and intellectual intensity
A really beautiful book about obsession, longing and science . It's really beautiful and it does something I love, and can never say no to in books, which is a really complex relationship between two women . it's just gorgeous, really gorgeous on a sentence level . It's just extremely cool . that's the book that I'm reading and really love
Cannily explores both the poisons and the antidotes of love, ambition, mentorship, and yearning, in prose so lively that I often found myself laughing with pleasure. Hex is some dark and joyous witchery
Nell is an expelled Ph.D. candidate in biological science who is trying to set a speed record for the detoxification of poisonous plants. She's mesmerized by her mentor, Joan, and the woman's elegance and success. Surrounded by Nell's ex, her best friend, her best friend's boyfriend and Joan's husband, the two scientists are tangled together at the centre of a web of illicit relationships, grudges and obsessions
Strange and delightful . How could a reader - or a botany professor - not be charmed?
Academics tie themselves up into a pretzel of betrayal and desire in Rebecca Dinerstein Knight's propulsive second book, which reads a tiny bit like AS Byatt after dark . This is a bold and highly charged book that makes entertainment seem like not such a bad word
Hex is the sort of novel that almost has its own smell - humid and loamy, like a body after a morning spent bent over a garden patch. It's about Nell Barber, a recently expelled Ph.D. student secretly running her own experiments on poisonous botanicals in her apartment and vigorously lusting after her buttoned-up adviser and mentor. Sex practically pulses out of Nell as she fails her way into adulthood in this botanically entwined work of early-adult dissatisfaction
Swift-moving, sardonic . Dinerstein Knight paints a withering portrait of this web of toxic romances, and of the excesses of academia, while illustrating how both the heart and the mind can be broken and reshaped by changing circumstances
As precise as any scientific observation and far more tantalizing
Hex reads like a botanist's cross-breeding of The Secret History and Department of Speculation, full of brilliant and bodily obsession. Rebecca Dinerstein Knight is both a scientist and a magician, and she conjures this beautiful spell of a novel with total control
Hex is a book for those who feel adrift and solitary, for those who feel overwhelmed by themselves. Ultimately, it's a story about harnessing what is out of control - and learning that perhaps the only way to control a poisonous thing is to first embrace it
A book that examines our natural and absolutely astounding reactions to each other. The language of this novel is so finely tailored, so elegant yet organic, so absorbing that it takes the reader a moment to realize that this is not just a deliciously engaging tale of what it is like to be social and sexual, but that this writing is an actual incantation in itself. It is a beautiful, spooky spell that divides and processes our innate potential for poison or pleasure
Hex is sexy, unhinged, revelatory, so smart it gives the reader whiplash. It works on you like the poisonous plants that wind through the storyline, until you're as obsessed and intoxicated as the vivid characters that make up this love hexagon gone fascinatingly and beautifully wrong. I can't remember the last time I had so much fun reading a book or was so impressed by the wizardry of the language
Hex is a gem of a book: sharp and exquisite. Dinerstein Knight writes about women's obsession with devastating wisdom, insight, and humor. It is pure pleasure to be under her spell
Hex is neon-bright and guided by a fierce, scintillating interest in the innermost chambers of the human heart, where melancholic and bright humors mingle together. In every line you hear the voice of a writer who knows how to lead you expertly into the place where the story is most alive: spooky, shifty, darkly funny, and delectable in every way
Offbeat yet entirely precise; original and universal. Hex is a nut with sweet meat and a poison shell, at once disarming and quietly devastating. This is a book for anyone who's ever felt adrift, or felt alone, or loved someone out of reach, or all the above
Nell's intensity and the hypnotic, second-person prose convincingly render the protagonist's bewitched, self-destructive state. Readers who liked I Love Dick and want something more lurid will appreciate this
A joyfully deranged pleasure
A spellbinding novel of emotional and intellectual intensity