Nobody Is Ever Missing
Autor Catherine Laceyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mar 2024
"[A] searching, emotionally resonant first novel . . . [Nobody Is Ever Missing] impressed me, and held me to my chair. There's significant talent at work here." ¿Dwight Garner, The New York Times
The 10th anniversary reissue of Catherine Lacey's beloved, star-making debut novel Nobody Is Ever Missing: a mordant, uncanny, and unputdownable journey into one woman's attempt to break free of her life.
Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable but unfulfilling life in Manhattan. As her husband scrambles to figure out what happened to her, Elyria hurtles into the unknown, testing fate by hitchhiking, tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers, and sleeping in fields, forests, and public parks.
Her perilous and often surreal encounters with the people and wildlife of New Zealand propel Elyria deeper into her deteriorating mind. Haunted by her sister's death and consumed by an inner violence, her growing rage remains so expertly concealed that those who meet her sense nothing wrong. This discord between her inner and outer reality leads her to another obsession: If her truest self is invisible and unknowable to others, is she even alive?
The risks Elyria takes on her journey are paralleled by the risks Catherine Lacey takes on the page. In urgent, spiraling prose, Lacey whittles away at the rage within Elyria and exposes the very real, very knowable anxiety of the human condition. A sensation upon its release in 2014 and the introduction to a singular literary talent, Lacey's debut novel Nobody Is Ever Missing radiates the same intensity and invention it did upon its publication, and remains an unrelenting, unputdownable search for the dark heart of the self.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781250334695
ISBN-10: 1250334691
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 125 x 189 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Pan Macmillan
ISBN-10: 1250334691
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 125 x 189 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Pan Macmillan
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Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable but unfulfilling life in Manhattan. As her husband scrambles to figure out what happened to her, Elyria hurtles into the unknown, testing fate by hitchhiking, tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers, and sleeping in fields, forests, and public parks.
Her risky and often surreal encounters with the people and wildlife of New Zealand propel Elyria deeper into her deteriorating mind. Haunted by her sister's death and consumed by an inner violence, her growing rage remains so expertly concealed that those who meet her sense nothing unwell. This discord between her inner and outer reality leads her to another obsession: If her truest self is invisible and unknowable to others, is she even alive?
The risks Elyria takes on her journey are paralleled by the risks Catherine Lacey takes on the page. In urgent, spiraling prose she whittles away at the rage within Elyria and exposes the very real, very knowable anxiety of the human condition. And yet somehow Lacey manages to poke fun at her unrelenting self-consciousness, her high-stakes search for the dark heart of the self. In the spirit of Haruki Murakami and Amelia Gray, "Nobody Is Ever Missing" is full of mordant humor and uncanny insights, as Elyria waffles between obsession and numbness in the face of love, loss, danger, and self-knowledge.
Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable but unfulfilling life in Manhattan. As her husband scrambles to figure out what happened to her, Elyria hurtles into the unknown, testing fate by hitchhiking, tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers, and sleeping in fields, forests, and public parks.
Her risky and often surreal encounters with the people and wildlife of New Zealand propel Elyria deeper into her deteriorating mind. Haunted by her sister's death and consumed by an inner violence, her growing rage remains so expertly concealed that those who meet her sense nothing unwell. This discord between her inner and outer reality leads her to another obsession: If her truest self is invisible and unknowable to others, is she even alive?
The risks Elyria takes on her journey are paralleled by the risks Catherine Lacey takes on the page. In urgent, spiraling prose she whittles away at the rage within Elyria and exposes the very real, very knowable anxiety of the human condition. And yet somehow Lacey manages to poke fun at her unrelenting self-consciousness, her high-stakes search for the dark heart of the self. In the spirit of Haruki Murakami and Amelia Gray, "Nobody Is Ever Missing" is full of mordant humor and uncanny insights, as Elyria waffles between obsession and numbness in the face of love, loss, danger, and self-knowledge.
Notă biografică
Catherine Lacey is the recipient of a 2012 New York Foundation for the Arts Artists' Fellowship in Fiction Writing. She has published stories and nonfiction in "McSweeney's," "Believer," " The Atlantic," " 52 Stories," ""and "The Paris Review." In 2010 she cofounded 3B, a cooperative bed and breakfast in Brooklyn, New York. She earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University and a BA from Loyola University in New Orleans.
Recenzii
"Catherine Lacey's virtuosic debut is a gutsy, lyric meditation on identity, love, transformation, and what it means to be free. It is a breathtakingly accomplished novel, and Catherine Lacey is a riveting new voice in contemporary fiction." --Laura van den Berg, author of "The Isle""of Youth"
"A dense, subtle series of meditations on domestication, estrangement, wildness, and above all, loss and absence." --David Shields, author of "How Literature Saved My Life" and coauthor of" Salinger"
"Catherine Lacey has a magic voice like none I've ever read before. An unknown cousin of both David Markson's "Wittgenstein's Mistress "and Marilynne Robinson's "Housekeeping", "Nobody Is Ever""Missing "is a fabulously intelligent and witty book, and also a very moving one." --Rivka Galchen, author of "American""Innovations""This book lives and breathes. It is a squall and Catherine Lacey is a force." --Amelia Gray, author of "Threats""""""A dark, precise jewel of a novel that does what every piece of writing should: cast a subtly new light on the world around us." --John Wray, author of "Lowboy"
"The premise begins simply enough: Elyria has unexpectedly left her husband. And yet the proceeding narrative introduces some of contemporary fiction's most complex personal introspection as Catherine Lacey--with the ease of a master--depicts a mind that may, or may not, be breaking down . . . Elyria hitchhikes, meets a handful of characters and thinks. And her ponderings--written in Lacey's consistently remarkable, urgent prose style--slowly unravel the layers of Elyria's discontent, revealing an expanse of universal anxiety and uncertainty. Her observations of the country and her ruminations on the past are simultaneously childlike in their wonder and astounding in their depth. Page after page, the novel strikes those rarely accomplished balances between action and interiority, comedy and bleakness, stream-of-consciousness and clarity. An uncomplicated plot written with honesty and linguistic deftness characterizes many of the world's great novels, including this debut. As the story concludes, Lacey does not assert any sense of closure because there are no lessons here, only a stunning portrait of, to paraphrase Doris Lessing, a woman going mad all by herself." --Tiffany Gibert, "Time Out New York""Catherine Lacey's virtuosic debut is a gutsy, lyric meditation on identity, love, transformation, and what it means to be free. It is a breathtakingly accomplished novel, and Catherine Lacey is a riveting new voice in contemporary fiction." --Laura van den Berg, author of "The Isle""of Youth"
"A dense, subtle series of meditations on domestication, estrangement, wildness, and above all, loss and absence." --David Shields, author of "How Literature Saved My Life" and coauthor of" Salinger"
"Catherine Lacey has a magic voice like none I've ever read before. An unknown cousin of both David Markson's "Wittgenstein's Mistress "and Marilynne Robinson's "Housekeeping," "Nobody Is Ever""Missing "is a fabulously intelligent and witty book, and also a very moving one." --R
"Ms. Lacey has written a serious, frequently brilliant novel with a sustained intensity that is rare in fiction. It's the most promising first novel that I've encountered this year." --Sam Sacks, "The Wall Street Journal""[A] searching, emotionally resonant first novel...[Lacey's prose is] dreamy and fierce at the same time...Ms. Lacey's slim novel impressed me, and held me to my chair. There's significant talent at work here..."Nobody Is Ever Missing" gets so much right that you easily push past its small flaws. It's an aching portrait of a young woman doing the hard thing, "trying to think clearly about mixed feelings." --Dwight Garner, " The New York Times""The premise begins simply enough: Elyria has unexpectedly left her husband. And yet the proceeding narrative introduces some of contemporary fiction's most complex personal introspection as Catherine Lacey--with the ease of a master--depicts a mind that may, or may not, be breaking down . . . Elyria hitchhikes, meets a handful of characters and thinks. And her ponderings--written in Lacey's consistently remarkable, urgent prose style--slowly unravel the layers of Elyria's discontent, revealing an expanse of universal anxiety and uncertainty. Her observations of the country and her ruminations on the past are simultaneously childlike in their wonder and astounding in their depth. Page after page, the novel strikes those rarely accomplished balances between action and interiority, comedy and bleakness, stream-of-consciousness and clarity. An uncomplicated plot written with honesty and linguistic deftness characterizes many of the world's great novels, including this debut. As the story concludes, Lacey does not assert any sense of closure because there are no lessons here, only a stunning portrait of, to paraphrase Doris Lessing, a woman going mad all by herself." --Tiffany Gibert, "Time Out New York""Lacey's wise and dazzling novel... is funny, not in a zany way, but in the audaciously morbid way a Coen brother
"A dense, subtle series of meditations on domestication, estrangement, wildness, and above all, loss and absence." --David Shields, author of "How Literature Saved My Life" and coauthor of" Salinger"
"Catherine Lacey has a magic voice like none I've ever read before. An unknown cousin of both David Markson's "Wittgenstein's Mistress "and Marilynne Robinson's "Housekeeping", "Nobody Is Ever""Missing "is a fabulously intelligent and witty book, and also a very moving one." --Rivka Galchen, author of "American""Innovations""This book lives and breathes. It is a squall and Catherine Lacey is a force." --Amelia Gray, author of "Threats""""""A dark, precise jewel of a novel that does what every piece of writing should: cast a subtly new light on the world around us." --John Wray, author of "Lowboy"
"The premise begins simply enough: Elyria has unexpectedly left her husband. And yet the proceeding narrative introduces some of contemporary fiction's most complex personal introspection as Catherine Lacey--with the ease of a master--depicts a mind that may, or may not, be breaking down . . . Elyria hitchhikes, meets a handful of characters and thinks. And her ponderings--written in Lacey's consistently remarkable, urgent prose style--slowly unravel the layers of Elyria's discontent, revealing an expanse of universal anxiety and uncertainty. Her observations of the country and her ruminations on the past are simultaneously childlike in their wonder and astounding in their depth. Page after page, the novel strikes those rarely accomplished balances between action and interiority, comedy and bleakness, stream-of-consciousness and clarity. An uncomplicated plot written with honesty and linguistic deftness characterizes many of the world's great novels, including this debut. As the story concludes, Lacey does not assert any sense of closure because there are no lessons here, only a stunning portrait of, to paraphrase Doris Lessing, a woman going mad all by herself." --Tiffany Gibert, "Time Out New York""Catherine Lacey's virtuosic debut is a gutsy, lyric meditation on identity, love, transformation, and what it means to be free. It is a breathtakingly accomplished novel, and Catherine Lacey is a riveting new voice in contemporary fiction." --Laura van den Berg, author of "The Isle""of Youth"
"A dense, subtle series of meditations on domestication, estrangement, wildness, and above all, loss and absence." --David Shields, author of "How Literature Saved My Life" and coauthor of" Salinger"
"Catherine Lacey has a magic voice like none I've ever read before. An unknown cousin of both David Markson's "Wittgenstein's Mistress "and Marilynne Robinson's "Housekeeping," "Nobody Is Ever""Missing "is a fabulously intelligent and witty book, and also a very moving one." --R
"Ms. Lacey has written a serious, frequently brilliant novel with a sustained intensity that is rare in fiction. It's the most promising first novel that I've encountered this year." --Sam Sacks, "The Wall Street Journal""[A] searching, emotionally resonant first novel...[Lacey's prose is] dreamy and fierce at the same time...Ms. Lacey's slim novel impressed me, and held me to my chair. There's significant talent at work here..."Nobody Is Ever Missing" gets so much right that you easily push past its small flaws. It's an aching portrait of a young woman doing the hard thing, "trying to think clearly about mixed feelings." --Dwight Garner, " The New York Times""The premise begins simply enough: Elyria has unexpectedly left her husband. And yet the proceeding narrative introduces some of contemporary fiction's most complex personal introspection as Catherine Lacey--with the ease of a master--depicts a mind that may, or may not, be breaking down . . . Elyria hitchhikes, meets a handful of characters and thinks. And her ponderings--written in Lacey's consistently remarkable, urgent prose style--slowly unravel the layers of Elyria's discontent, revealing an expanse of universal anxiety and uncertainty. Her observations of the country and her ruminations on the past are simultaneously childlike in their wonder and astounding in their depth. Page after page, the novel strikes those rarely accomplished balances between action and interiority, comedy and bleakness, stream-of-consciousness and clarity. An uncomplicated plot written with honesty and linguistic deftness characterizes many of the world's great novels, including this debut. As the story concludes, Lacey does not assert any sense of closure because there are no lessons here, only a stunning portrait of, to paraphrase Doris Lessing, a woman going mad all by herself." --Tiffany Gibert, "Time Out New York""Lacey's wise and dazzling novel... is funny, not in a zany way, but in the audaciously morbid way a Coen brother