Munich Airport: A Novel
Autor Greg Baxteren Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 ian 2016
From
the
critically
acclaimed
author
ofThe
Apartmentcomes
a
powerful,
poetic,
and
haunting
exploration
of
loss,
love,
and
isolation,
now
available
in
paperback.
An American living in London receives a phone call from a German policewoman telling him the nearly inconceivable news that his sister, Miriam, has been found dead in her Berlin apartment-from starvation. Three weeks later the man, his father, and an American consular official named Trish find themselves in the bizarre surroundings of a fogbound Munich Airport, where Miriam's coffin is set to be loaded onto a commercial jet and returned to America.
Greg Baxter's bold, mesmeric novel tells the story of these three people over the course of three weeks, as they wait for Miriam's body to be released, grieve over her incomprehensible death, and try to possess a share of her suffering--and her yearning and grace.
With prose that is tense, precise, and at times highly lyrical, MUNICH AIRPORT is a novel for our time, a work of richness, gravity, and even dark humor. Following his acclaimed American debut, MUNICH AIRPORT marks the establishment of Greg Baxter as an important new voice in literature, one who has already drawn comparisons to masters such as Kafka, Camus, and Murakami.
An American living in London receives a phone call from a German policewoman telling him the nearly inconceivable news that his sister, Miriam, has been found dead in her Berlin apartment-from starvation. Three weeks later the man, his father, and an American consular official named Trish find themselves in the bizarre surroundings of a fogbound Munich Airport, where Miriam's coffin is set to be loaded onto a commercial jet and returned to America.
Greg Baxter's bold, mesmeric novel tells the story of these three people over the course of three weeks, as they wait for Miriam's body to be released, grieve over her incomprehensible death, and try to possess a share of her suffering--and her yearning and grace.
With prose that is tense, precise, and at times highly lyrical, MUNICH AIRPORT is a novel for our time, a work of richness, gravity, and even dark humor. Following his acclaimed American debut, MUNICH AIRPORT marks the establishment of Greg Baxter as an important new voice in literature, one who has already drawn comparisons to masters such as Kafka, Camus, and Murakami.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781455557967
ISBN-10: 145555796X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Twelve
ISBN-10: 145555796X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Twelve
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Notă biografică
Greg
Baxteris
the
author
of
two
highly
acclaimed
books,The
ApartmentandA
Preparation
for
Death.
Originally
from
Texas,
he
has
lived
in
Europe
for
almost
two
decades.
He
currently
lives
in
Berlin
with
his
wife
and
two
children.
Recenzii
ACCLAIM
FOR
MUNICH
AIRPORT
"A masterwork of minimalism."—Entertainment Weekly
"With expert undercurrents and subtext, Baxter can fill quiet scenes with the weight of a funeral...Baxter's realizations are artful, and give poignant images to a man's struggle for identity."—Austin American-Statesman
"Greg Baxter is a writer of style...His proven brand of philosophical literature bypasses current fiction's fad for recklessly baroque construction and aims straight for the higher shelves of the Western canon."—Barnes & Noble Review
"[A] haunting and memorable work."—Hudson Valley News
"Fascinating and sad, unfolding...profound philosophical and psychological insight...The developing themes range from family and life's meanings to the role of memory and the passage of time, all illuminated by some of the best writing appearing in fiction today."—San Antonio Express-News
"Stunning... Few novels so urgently and demandingly make themselves feel as necessary as MUNICH AIRPORT."—Tweed's
"Absorbing, atmospheric and enigmatic... With its disorienting juxtaposition of the absolutely ordinary and the strange and vaguely threatening, the novel evokes the work of Franz Kafka and Haruki Murakami, while its oblique explorations of memory suggest a debt to W.G. Sebald... Baxter's provocative, unsettling novel is, among other things, about the inexorability of identity and 'the immortality of violence.'"—Los Angeles Times
"It is precisely this sort of subversion, along with the author's shimmering prose, that makes THE APARTMENT such a surprisingly compelling read and so apropos; it captures the mood of the current moment and what seems to be a new "lost generation," one formed not so much by exposure to violence, as immunity to and alienation from it. Once upon a time, there was no place like home; in Mr. Baxter's world, home, it seems, is no place."—Adam Langer, The New York Times
"In this bleak but affecting novel, an unnamed American expat spends a day walking through a frigid, unidentified European city in search of an apartment...The details of his day are rendered with anaesthetized precision and achieve a cumulative force of grief, equanimity, and resolve."—The New Yorker
"A true gem... Lucid, often hypnotic and, at times, even transporting. [Baxter] keeps his sentences short, his adjectives limited, his pacing leisurely. The paragraphs are long and there are no chapter breaks, yet his acute observation means this is no mere minimalist undertaking... The Iraq sections are astonishingly well done, and the man's history as a Naval officer feels almost exactly right to the former Naval officer who happens to be writing this review."—Los Angeles Review of Books
"In a year marked by epics, it's a relief to delve into this quiet, surprisingly tense debut novel - small enough to fit into a stocking but packing a huge emotional punch."—Entertainment Weekly
"In just over 200 pages, The Apartment impressively and tactfully covers everything from the effects of American interventionism on its relationship with Europe to questions of personal identity."—Esquire
"'I was born to hate the place I came from.' Greg Baxter's first novel THE APARTMENT is a short but powerful exploration of that sentiment, uttered halfway through the novel by its narrator, a 41-year-old American ex-Navy officer and Iraq War veteran."—Chicago Tribune
"A beautiful meditation on brutality and culture, which are sometimes one and the same."—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"An elegant portrait of a man half-fractured, half-intact-a post-war somebody caught between repair and capitulation, controlling his own fate and imprisoned by regret."—The Texas Observer
"In the layered narratives of Baxter's piercing first novel, a young American returned from Iraq struggles to find a new life in Europe."—New York Times, Sunday Book Review,Editor's Choice
"Greg Baxter deserves to be included with Karl Ove Knausgaard, Elena Ferrante, Ben Lerner and Rachel Cusk in the current conversation about what fiction can do and where it is going."—Brooklyn Magazine
"Baxter has written another profound yet immensely relatable book."—The Acadiana Advocate
"MUNICH
AIRPORT
confirms
[Baxter]
as
a
writer
of
courage
and
lucidity.
His
fluent
and
assured
prose
owes
some
debt
to
the
Austro-Hungarian
Franz
Kafka
and
the
Austrian
Thomas
Bernhard...
Baxter
is
high
literature."
—New
York
Times
Book
Review,Editors'
Choice"A masterwork of minimalism."—Entertainment Weekly
"With expert undercurrents and subtext, Baxter can fill quiet scenes with the weight of a funeral...Baxter's realizations are artful, and give poignant images to a man's struggle for identity."—Austin American-Statesman
"MUNICH
AIRPORT
is
a
brilliant
achievement."
—Sam
Sacks,
The
Wall
Street
Journal"Greg Baxter is a writer of style...His proven brand of philosophical literature bypasses current fiction's fad for recklessly baroque construction and aims straight for the higher shelves of the Western canon."—Barnes & Noble Review
"[A] haunting and memorable work."—Hudson Valley News
"Powerful
and
poignant...The
novel's
tone,
together
with
Baxter's
limpid
prose
and
his
narrator's
clear-eyed
confessions,
keep
us
riveted
until
the
bittersweet
climax,
when
the
fog
finally
lifts
and
each
broken
character
can
take
to
the
sky."
—Minneapolis
Star
Tribune"Fascinating and sad, unfolding...profound philosophical and psychological insight...The developing themes range from family and life's meanings to the role of memory and the passage of time, all illuminated by some of the best writing appearing in fiction today."—San Antonio Express-News
"Stunning... Few novels so urgently and demandingly make themselves feel as necessary as MUNICH AIRPORT."—Tweed's
ACCLAIM
FORTHE
APARTMENTBY
GREG
BAXTER
"Baxter
has
written
a
novel
of
subtle
beauty
and
quiet
grace;
I
found
myself
hanging
on
every
simple
word,
as
tense
about
the
consequences
of
a
man
finding
an
apartment
as
if
I
were
reading
about
a
man
defusing
a
bomb...
It
is
one
of
the
best
novels
I
have
read
in
a
long
time."—Stacey
D'Erasmo,
New
York
Times
Sunday
Book
Review"Absorbing, atmospheric and enigmatic... With its disorienting juxtaposition of the absolutely ordinary and the strange and vaguely threatening, the novel evokes the work of Franz Kafka and Haruki Murakami, while its oblique explorations of memory suggest a debt to W.G. Sebald... Baxter's provocative, unsettling novel is, among other things, about the inexorability of identity and 'the immortality of violence.'"—Los Angeles Times
"It is precisely this sort of subversion, along with the author's shimmering prose, that makes THE APARTMENT such a surprisingly compelling read and so apropos; it captures the mood of the current moment and what seems to be a new "lost generation," one formed not so much by exposure to violence, as immunity to and alienation from it. Once upon a time, there was no place like home; in Mr. Baxter's world, home, it seems, is no place."—Adam Langer, The New York Times
"In this bleak but affecting novel, an unnamed American expat spends a day walking through a frigid, unidentified European city in search of an apartment...The details of his day are rendered with anaesthetized precision and achieve a cumulative force of grief, equanimity, and resolve."—The New Yorker
"A true gem... Lucid, often hypnotic and, at times, even transporting. [Baxter] keeps his sentences short, his adjectives limited, his pacing leisurely. The paragraphs are long and there are no chapter breaks, yet his acute observation means this is no mere minimalist undertaking... The Iraq sections are astonishingly well done, and the man's history as a Naval officer feels almost exactly right to the former Naval officer who happens to be writing this review."—Los Angeles Review of Books
"In a year marked by epics, it's a relief to delve into this quiet, surprisingly tense debut novel - small enough to fit into a stocking but packing a huge emotional punch."—Entertainment Weekly
"In just over 200 pages, The Apartment impressively and tactfully covers everything from the effects of American interventionism on its relationship with Europe to questions of personal identity."—Esquire
"'I was born to hate the place I came from.' Greg Baxter's first novel THE APARTMENT is a short but powerful exploration of that sentiment, uttered halfway through the novel by its narrator, a 41-year-old American ex-Navy officer and Iraq War veteran."—Chicago Tribune
"A beautiful meditation on brutality and culture, which are sometimes one and the same."—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"An elegant portrait of a man half-fractured, half-intact-a post-war somebody caught between repair and capitulation, controlling his own fate and imprisoned by regret."—The Texas Observer
"In the layered narratives of Baxter's piercing first novel, a young American returned from Iraq struggles to find a new life in Europe."—New York Times, Sunday Book Review,Editor's Choice
"Greg Baxter deserves to be included with Karl Ove Knausgaard, Elena Ferrante, Ben Lerner and Rachel Cusk in the current conversation about what fiction can do and where it is going."—Brooklyn Magazine
"Baxter has written another profound yet immensely relatable book."—The Acadiana Advocate