Spooner
Autor Pete Dexteren Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 oct 2010
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780446540735
ISBN-10: 0446540730
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10: 0446540730
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Grand Central Publishing
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Notă biografică
Pete
Dexter
began
his
working
life
with
a
U.S.
Post
office
in
New
Orleans,
Louisiana.
He
wasn't
very
good
at
mail
and
quit,
then
caught
on
as
a
newspaper
reporter
in
Florida,
which
he
was
not
very
good
at,
got
married,
and
was
not
very
good
at
that.
In
Philadelphia
he
became
a
newspaper
columnist,
which
he
was
pretty
good
at,
and
got
divorced,
which
you
would
have
to
say
he
was
good
at
because
it
only
cost
$300.
Dexter remarried, won the National Book Award and built a house in the desert so remote that there is no postal service. He's out there six months a year, pecking away at the typewriter, living proof of the adageWhat goes around comes around--that is, you quit the post office, pal, and the post office quits you.
Dexter remarried, won the National Book Award and built a house in the desert so remote that there is no postal service. He's out there six months a year, pecking away at the typewriter, living proof of the adageWhat goes around comes around--that is, you quit the post office, pal, and the post office quits you.
Recenzii
Pete
Dexter,
writing
of
the
part
played
by
love
in
the
exuberant
life
of
his
hero,
Spooner,
and
the
fatal
inevitability
of
the
compromises
that
make
life
bearable,
has
given
us
a
novel
of
picaresque
vitality--outlandish,
anecdotal,
profuse,
funny,
profound.—Susanna
Moore,
author
of
My
Old
Sweetheart
and
In
the
Cut
"[Dexter's] is a voice like no other, though James Ellroy and Elmore Leonard may be counted among his distant literary cousins...So, this book is different! Not exactly what Pete Dexter usually writes, but madly interesting in what it sets out to do. I freely admit to a bias: As far as I'm concerned, Dexter can do no wrong."—Washington Post
"In his latest book, newspaper columnist turned novelist turned screenwriter Pete Dexter has taken the literary-psychoanalytic bull by the horns and -- with characteristic and stylish aplomb -- blown smoke in its formidable face. His new novel,Spooner, essentially is an autobiographical roman a clef -- not really true, except in its major incidents; not quite wholly fictional, except, of course, where it is. It's a book that probably will perplex -- and then delight -- Dexter's longtime fans, since it really is a memoir thinly disguised as a novel, and, as such, it's a lot like his life: a big, sprawling mess of a book that's nonetheless nearly always entertaining and, in significant parts, genuinely touching. It's also a wonderful reminder that Dexter's journalistic eye for the tellingly instructive detail, particularly as it evokes character, still is second to none."—Los Angeles Times
"A story about a man's struggle to help his troubled stepson by a novelist who writes about trouble better than most anyone."—USA Today
"Lucky for Dexter, the consequences of the tardy, yet (in his judgment) unfinished release of Warren Spooner's wonderful, terrible life are less fraught, even felicitous.... In some 500 pages, Dexter bringsSpoonerto life with uncharacteristic expansiveness and tenderness.Spooneris a family epic that digs out the emotions packed in memory's earliest bonds - guilt, resentment, loyalty and love.... InSpooner, he unearths the experiences that underlie this nuanced sensibility, exposing the familial archetypes that shade his characters and directly engaging the potent emotions that emerge obliquely in his other books. It's a conversational novel, roving and inclusive, packed with Southern color and Northeastern grit, with rueful reflection and the contretemps of daily life that can't be avoided even on a remote island in Puget Sound. WithSpooner, he demonstrates the impulse that keeps writers at their task; the longing to reassemble the whole; to see, however belatedly, who a person was, or could have been."—New York Times Book Review
"Dexter's crowd-pleasing wiles are razor-sharp in this long-awaited novel, the madcap and touching, assured and (ahem) dexterous story of a very Dexter-like Warren Spooner."—Publisher's Weekkly
"[Dexter's] is a voice like no other, though James Ellroy and Elmore Leonard may be counted among his distant literary cousins...So, this book is different! Not exactly what Pete Dexter usually writes, but madly interesting in what it sets out to do. I freely admit to a bias: As far as I'm concerned, Dexter can do no wrong."—Washington Post
"In his latest book, newspaper columnist turned novelist turned screenwriter Pete Dexter has taken the literary-psychoanalytic bull by the horns and -- with characteristic and stylish aplomb -- blown smoke in its formidable face. His new novel,Spooner, essentially is an autobiographical roman a clef -- not really true, except in its major incidents; not quite wholly fictional, except, of course, where it is. It's a book that probably will perplex -- and then delight -- Dexter's longtime fans, since it really is a memoir thinly disguised as a novel, and, as such, it's a lot like his life: a big, sprawling mess of a book that's nonetheless nearly always entertaining and, in significant parts, genuinely touching. It's also a wonderful reminder that Dexter's journalistic eye for the tellingly instructive detail, particularly as it evokes character, still is second to none."—Los Angeles Times
"A story about a man's struggle to help his troubled stepson by a novelist who writes about trouble better than most anyone."—USA Today
"Lucky for Dexter, the consequences of the tardy, yet (in his judgment) unfinished release of Warren Spooner's wonderful, terrible life are less fraught, even felicitous.... In some 500 pages, Dexter bringsSpoonerto life with uncharacteristic expansiveness and tenderness.Spooneris a family epic that digs out the emotions packed in memory's earliest bonds - guilt, resentment, loyalty and love.... InSpooner, he unearths the experiences that underlie this nuanced sensibility, exposing the familial archetypes that shade his characters and directly engaging the potent emotions that emerge obliquely in his other books. It's a conversational novel, roving and inclusive, packed with Southern color and Northeastern grit, with rueful reflection and the contretemps of daily life that can't be avoided even on a remote island in Puget Sound. WithSpooner, he demonstrates the impulse that keeps writers at their task; the longing to reassemble the whole; to see, however belatedly, who a person was, or could have been."—New York Times Book Review
"Dexter's crowd-pleasing wiles are razor-sharp in this long-awaited novel, the madcap and touching, assured and (ahem) dexterous story of a very Dexter-like Warren Spooner."—Publisher's Weekkly