The Catastrophist
Autor Lawrence Douglasen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 mai 2007
From an idyllic New England campus to the rarefied art worlds of Berlin and London, The Catastrophist charts the rise and fall and partial rebound of an ambivalent but endearing Everyman and heralds the appearance of a major new comedic voice in American fiction.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780156031776
ISBN-10: 0156031779
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0156031779
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
Locul publicării:United States
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PRAISE FOR THE CATASTROPHIST
"That we enjoy the company of this walking disaster is a tribute to Douglas’s witty prose; that we love R.—practical, attentive, and shrewd—can be chalked up to the author’s bedrock understanding of what constitutes an appealing human being. A-."—ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Deploying wit and humor and an acute, darker insight, Lawrence Douglas leads us through Freudian fields with an antihero we can’t help but fall for immoderately."—THE BOSTON GLOBE —
"That we enjoy the company of this walking disaster is a tribute to Douglas’s witty prose; that we love R.—practical, attentive, and shrewd—can be chalked up to the author’s bedrock understanding of what constitutes an appealing human being. A-."—ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Deploying wit and humor and an acute, darker insight, Lawrence Douglas leads us through Freudian fields with an antihero we can’t help but fall for immoderately."—THE BOSTON GLOBE —
Notă biografică
LAWRENCE DOUGLAS' s writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Hudson Review, McSweeney's, and the New Yorker, and he is a regular contributor to the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Times Literary Supplement. He teaches at Amherst College and lives in Boston.