Saving Angelfish: Tin House New Voice
Autor Michele Mathesonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 2006
A part-time actress and full-time junkie, Maxella Gordon’s life is unraveling fast. She’s estranged from her parents, in debt to the neighborhood dealer, and in frequent conversation with an angel figurine she ripped off from the local Rite-Aid. After an unfortunate incident, Max is forced to sell for another dealer, the vicious, legless Carlotta. Struggling to get out of debt, off drugs, and away from Carlotta, Max is increasingly desperate to find a way out.
Drugs and violence haunt everyone in Max’s world, yet still they draw together: her parents, still holding each other up though their marriage ended years ago; her tutu-clad buyer, who joins them for Christmas dinner; and Max’s own attempt to help Carlotta’s son Albert break away from his mother. Honest and unpredictable, laced with flashes of wit and poignancy, Saving Angelfish is a gritty portrait of the dark world simmering just below LA’s gleaming surface.
Drugs and violence haunt everyone in Max’s world, yet still they draw together: her parents, still holding each other up though their marriage ended years ago; her tutu-clad buyer, who joins them for Christmas dinner; and Max’s own attempt to help Carlotta’s son Albert break away from his mother. Honest and unpredictable, laced with flashes of wit and poignancy, Saving Angelfish is a gritty portrait of the dark world simmering just below LA’s gleaming surface.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780977312764
ISBN-10: 0977312763
Pagini: 249
Dimensiuni: 135 x 183 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Tin House Books
Seria Tin House New Voice
Locul publicării:Canada
ISBN-10: 0977312763
Pagini: 249
Dimensiuni: 135 x 183 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Tin House Books
Seria Tin House New Voice
Locul publicării:Canada
Recenzii
"This is a flawlessly executed study of a life that's fully dissolved." -Los Angeles Times
"Her novel of addiction, of coming close to bottoming out…rings as true as any memoir I've read." - Russ Harvey, KQED
"In that land where literary characters live, Maxella, the heroine of Saving Angelfish, shares the same space as Alice, of Alice in Wonderland, and Holden Caulfield. But though Max's neighborhood, like Alice's and Caulfield's, is funny and wondrous, her actual street is a far more dangerous and scary place to hang out. In questioning just how much anyone can break free from the past, Matheson's voice is dead-on, fresh, and completely winning. Michele Matheson is a find." -Jim Krusoe, author of Iceland
"The brutality and purgatorial repetition that is the outer life of a heroin addict conceals a shimmering inner world in Michele Matheson's debut novel, Saving Angelfish. Luminous language traces a phosphorescent trail through the book's dark journey." -Janet Fitch, author of Paint It Black
"Gritty, poignant, funny, achingly dark, Saving Angelfish marks the debut of an impressive new literary talent. Michele Matheson has a keen eye, a ravaged ancient soul and a lyrical voice-a powerful combination that has produced a remarkable book." -John Lescroart, author of The Hunt Club
"The end of one's rope is where my favorite literature begins and Saving Angelfish is a strong contributor to that brave, luminous pile. Authentic desperation reeks from every page of this novel, which makes for an arresting reading experience. Humor and tension is all the right places." -Benjamin Weissman, author of Headless
"Saving Angelfish resonates with the kind of raw power and fearless, unsparing prose that will remind readers of earlier classics of the genre like Requiem for a Dream and The Basketball Diaries. Michele Matheson, God help her, has done the research-and lived to tell the tale. This is a darkly beautiful novel, as seductive and brutal as a smack habit-and just as hard to shake." -Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight
Notă biografică
Michele Lund Matheson
Contributor residences (city, state or country if outside the US or Canada): New York, New York and Los Angeles, California
Michele Lund Matheson lives in New York and Los Angeles. She has been an actress in independent films, on off-Broadway, and for television, as well as a singer for an underground band. She would like an Abyssinian cat when she settles on a place to live. She is currently working on a second novel.
Contributor residences (city, state or country if outside the US or Canada): New York, New York and Los Angeles, California
Michele Lund Matheson lives in New York and Los Angeles. She has been an actress in independent films, on off-Broadway, and for television, as well as a singer for an underground band. She would like an Abyssinian cat when she settles on a place to live. She is currently working on a second novel.