The Tao of Humiliation: American Readers
Autor Lee Uptonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 mai 2014
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2014
Best New Fiction of May 2014, Typographical Era
Alternately chilling, funny, devastating, and hopeful, these 17 stories introduce us to a theater critic who winds up in a hot tub with the actress he routinely savages in reviews; a biographer who struggles to discover why a novelist stopped writing; a student who contends with her predatory professor; and the startling scenario of the last satyr meeting his last woman.
Writer-in-residence and a professor of English at Lafayette College, Lee Upton is author of twelve books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Best New Fiction of May 2014, Typographical Era
Alternately chilling, funny, devastating, and hopeful, these 17 stories introduce us to a theater critic who winds up in a hot tub with the actress he routinely savages in reviews; a biographer who struggles to discover why a novelist stopped writing; a student who contends with her predatory professor; and the startling scenario of the last satyr meeting his last woman.
Writer-in-residence and a professor of English at Lafayette College, Lee Upton is author of twelve books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781938160325
ISBN-10: 1938160320
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 132 x 201 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: BOA Editions
Seria American Readers
ISBN-10: 1938160320
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 132 x 201 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: BOA Editions
Seria American Readers
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Recenzii
"Readers will want to live inside this wonderful book — not just in its parties and wrecked gatherings and sophisticated conversations but in the sentences themselves, which are genuine shelters: long, erudite, warmhearted and capable, brimming with scholarship and knowledge. In its own way, each sentence is a container filled with something revelatory." —The New York Times Book Review, Sunday Shortlist
“Masterful stories by a writer of great lyrical gifts. Upton focuses on personal relationships, especially the immediacy and estrangement that emerge from the intensity of family life … Upton specializes in ending her stories with epiphanies that can be searing in their poignancy. These 17 tales explore personal and familial relationships with both pathos and humor—and all are well worth reading." —Kirkus Starred Review
“Poet, essayist, and fiction writer Upton’s stories are playful, full of clever allusions that are deftly presented … Upton’s story openings tend to be vivid; they’re great hooks … This is a smart and highly entertaining book." —Publishers Weekly Starred Review
“These well-imagined stories bear the mark of the poet in the best sense, and the reader will not soon forget them.”
—Library Journal Starred Review
“Upton, award-winning poet and literary critic, shows her mastery of the short form … This entertaining collection will appeal to fans of a variety of literary authors, such as Grace Paley, Edith Pearlman, and Louis Norda." —Booklist
"Lee Upton's stories in The Tao of Humiliation are startlingly original, emotionally compelling, and delicately crafted, making them that most satisfying of finds: a great read."
—Bathsheba Monk, WDIY, Lehigh Valley’s NPR Affiliate
“Simply put, this is one of the finest short story collections published in 2014. Alternately chilling, funny, devastating, and hopeful, Upton’s stories introduce us to a theater critic who winds up in a hot tub with the actress he routinely savages in reviews; a biographer who struggles to discover why a novelist stopped writing; a woman who searches through her past lives to recall a romantic encounter with the poet Yeats; a student who contends with her predatory professor; and the poignant scenario of the last satyr meeting his last woman. This is short story writing at its best.” —BUSTLE
“Masterful stories by a writer of great lyrical gifts. Upton focuses on personal relationships, especially the immediacy and estrangement that emerge from the intensity of family life … Upton specializes in ending her stories with epiphanies that can be searing in their poignancy. These 17 tales explore personal and familial relationships with both pathos and humor—and all are well worth reading." —Kirkus Starred Review
“Poet, essayist, and fiction writer Upton’s stories are playful, full of clever allusions that are deftly presented … Upton’s story openings tend to be vivid; they’re great hooks … This is a smart and highly entertaining book." —Publishers Weekly Starred Review
“These well-imagined stories bear the mark of the poet in the best sense, and the reader will not soon forget them.”
—Library Journal Starred Review
“Upton, award-winning poet and literary critic, shows her mastery of the short form … This entertaining collection will appeal to fans of a variety of literary authors, such as Grace Paley, Edith Pearlman, and Louis Norda." —Booklist
"Lee Upton's stories in The Tao of Humiliation are startlingly original, emotionally compelling, and delicately crafted, making them that most satisfying of finds: a great read."
—Bathsheba Monk, WDIY, Lehigh Valley’s NPR Affiliate
“Simply put, this is one of the finest short story collections published in 2014. Alternately chilling, funny, devastating, and hopeful, Upton’s stories introduce us to a theater critic who winds up in a hot tub with the actress he routinely savages in reviews; a biographer who struggles to discover why a novelist stopped writing; a woman who searches through her past lives to recall a romantic encounter with the poet Yeats; a student who contends with her predatory professor; and the poignant scenario of the last satyr meeting his last woman. This is short story writing at its best.” —BUSTLE
Notă biografică
Lee Upton is the author of twelve other books, including the novella The Guide to the Flying Island, and a collection of essays about writing, Swallowing the Sea: On Writing & Ambition Boredom Purity & Secrecy. Her poetry has appeared in editions of The Best American Poetry and has been included in numerous anthologies as well as in The New Republic, American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Harvard Review, New England Review, Poetry, and other magazines. More than three dozen of her short stories have been published, appearing in such journals as Antioch Review, Epoch, Short Fiction (England), Redivider, Northwest Review, Shenandoah, and Ascent. She has published more than fifty articles and essays about literature. Her awards include: the Lyric Poetry Award and The Writer/Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America; the Pushcart Prize; the National Poetry Series Award; the Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series Award; the BOA Short Fiction Prize; and the Mary Louise VanArtsdalen Prize for Scholarship, the Marquis Teaching Award, and the Jones Faculty Lecture Award at Lafayette College, where she is the Writer-in-Residence and a professor of English.
Cuprins
Table of Contents
The Tao of Humiliation
What Doesn¿t Kill You Makes Me Stronger
The Live One
You Know Yoüve Made It When They Hate You
The Undressed Mirror
La Belle Dame Sans Professeur
The Bottled Mermaid
Fly Me to the Moons
The Swan Princess
Will Anyone Ever Know Me
Bashful
My Temple
Escape from the Dark Forest
The Ideal Reader
Beyond The Yellow Wallpaper
Touch Us
Let Go
The Floating Woman
The Last Satyr
¿The Strange Heart Beating Where It Lies¿
The Tao of Humiliation
What Doesn¿t Kill You Makes Me Stronger
The Live One
You Know Yoüve Made It When They Hate You
The Undressed Mirror
La Belle Dame Sans Professeur
The Bottled Mermaid
Fly Me to the Moons
The Swan Princess
Will Anyone Ever Know Me
Bashful
My Temple
Escape from the Dark Forest
The Ideal Reader
Beyond The Yellow Wallpaper
Touch Us
Let Go
The Floating Woman
The Last Satyr
¿The Strange Heart Beating Where It Lies¿
Descriere
Chilling, funny, devastating: Upton’s characters backtrack into the past, then make their way forward with humiliation as their guide.