See How Small: A Novel
Autor Scott Blackwooden Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 sep 2015
One autumn evening in a Texas town, two strangers walk into an ice cream shop shortly before closing time. They bind up the three teenage girls behind the counter, set fire to the shop, and disappear. SEE HOW SMALL tells the stories of the survivors--family, witnesses, and suspects--who must endure in the wake of atrocity.
Hovering above the aftermath of their deaths are the three girls. They watch over the town, trying to connect with and prod to life those they left behind. "See how small a thing it is that keeps us apart," they say. A master of compression and lyrical precision, Scott Blackwood has surpassed himself with this haunting, beautiful, and enormously powerful novel.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316373944
ISBN-10: 031637394X
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 031637394X
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
Notă biografică
Scott
Blackwood
is
the
author
of
two
previous
books
of
fiction,In
the
Shadow
of
Our
HouseandWe
Agreed
to
Meet
Just
Here,
and
the
recipient
of
a
Whiting
Writers'
Award.
He's
also
the
Grammy
Award-nominated
author
ofThe
Rise
and
Fall
of
Paramount
Records,
a
two-volume
narrative
about
American's
greatest
"race
record"
label
and
the
rise
of
early
jazz
and
blues.
Blackwood
resided
in
Austin,
Texas,
for
many
years
and
now
lives
in
Chicago.
Recenzii
"Horrible
deaths
of
the
innocent,
and
the
various
means
and
tactics
by
which
the
living
manage
to
go
on
in
the
aftermath
of
unsolved
horror,
form
the
heart
of
Scott
Blackwood's
haunted
and
haunting
novel,See
How
Small.
His
prose
is
crisp
and
his
narrative
approach
is
fresh
and
inventive,
calmly
pushing
forward,
with
characters
rendered
so
convincingly
you
think
about
sending
cards
of
condolence
or
calling
with
advice
on
the
investigation."—Daniel
Woodrell,
author
of
Winter's
Bone
and
The
Maid's
Version
"See How Smallis superb. In prose that's as fine as any being written today, Scott Blackwood plumbs the depths of a story that is alternately haunting, terrifying, and achingly tragic. Blackwood illuminates the human condition even as he breaks our hearts."—Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
"Scott Blackwood is a wizard, and inSee How Smallhe puts his skills to dazzling use as he anatomizes a town and a crime. Best of all is the deep empathy he brings to his characters, innocent and guilty, wise and confused; all of them are given the grace of his understanding. A vivid and astonishing novel."—Margot Livesey, author ofThe Flight of Gemma Hardy
"The novel has much to say about the mysteries of the human psyche, the far-reaching effects of violence, and the disparate ways grief works on people."—Booklist
"See How Smallis the sort of book that is so good, it's difficult to even talk about it. You want to just place it in people's hands and say, 'Shhhhhhh, just slow down and read this.' Blackwood takes the most devastating story imaginable and lifts it-heart and soul-into something transcendent."—Peter Orner
"Similar...to Alice Sebold'sThe Lovely Bones, this lyrical, abstract, and less sentimental novel by Blackwood...may haunt literary fiction readers long after the unsettling ending."—Library Journal
"Emotionally layered."—Chicago Magazine
SEE HOW SMALL
"The greatest novels are somehow more than just novels. They challenge their readers and ferry them through madness toward unknown and undiscovered places....See How Smallis just such a book.... With beautiful language and sometimes surreal passages, [Blackwood] delves into the various characters connected to the deaths of the young women.... A tour de force. It is both epic and intimate."—William Jensen, Texas Books in Review
"A thoughtful portrait of a grieving town."—Joumana Khatib, New York Times Book Review
"See How Smallis superb. In prose that's as fine as any being written today, Scott Blackwood plumbs the depths of a story that is alternately haunting, terrifying, and achingly tragic. Blackwood illuminates the human condition even as he breaks our hearts."—Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
"Scott Blackwood is a wizard, and inSee How Smallhe puts his skills to dazzling use as he anatomizes a town and a crime. Best of all is the deep empathy he brings to his characters, innocent and guilty, wise and confused; all of them are given the grace of his understanding. A vivid and astonishing novel."—Margot Livesey, author ofThe Flight of Gemma Hardy
"The novel has much to say about the mysteries of the human psyche, the far-reaching effects of violence, and the disparate ways grief works on people."—Booklist
"See How Smallis the sort of book that is so good, it's difficult to even talk about it. You want to just place it in people's hands and say, 'Shhhhhhh, just slow down and read this.' Blackwood takes the most devastating story imaginable and lifts it-heart and soul-into something transcendent."—Peter Orner
"Similar...to Alice Sebold'sThe Lovely Bones, this lyrical, abstract, and less sentimental novel by Blackwood...may haunt literary fiction readers long after the unsettling ending."—Library Journal
"Emotionally layered."—Chicago Magazine
SEE HOW SMALL
"The greatest novels are somehow more than just novels. They challenge their readers and ferry them through madness toward unknown and undiscovered places....See How Smallis just such a book.... With beautiful language and sometimes surreal passages, [Blackwood] delves into the various characters connected to the deaths of the young women.... A tour de force. It is both epic and intimate."—William Jensen, Texas Books in Review
"A thoughtful portrait of a grieving town."—Joumana Khatib, New York Times Book Review