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Thirteen Ways of Looking

Autor Colum McCann
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 sep 2016
A story in this collection has been longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG short story awardAs it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent new ways of seeing. It is a cold day in January when J. Mendelssohn wakes in his Upper East Side apartment. Old and frail, he is entirely reliant on the help of his paid carer, and as he waits for the heating to come on, the clacking of the pipes stirs memories of the past; of his childhood in Lithuania and Dublin, of his distinguished career as a judge, and of his late wife, Eileen. Later he leaves the house to meet his son Elliot for lunch, and when Eliot departs mid-meal, Mendelssohn continues eating alone as the snow falls heavily outside.Moments after he leaves the restaurant he is brutally attacked. The detectives working on the case search through the footage of Mendelssohn's movements, captured by cameras in his home and on the street. Their work is like that of a poet: the search for a random word that, included at the right instance, will suddenly make sense of everything. Told from a multitude of perspectives, in lyrical, hypnotic prose, Thirteen Ways of Looking is a ground-breaking novella of true resonance. Accompanied by three equally powerful stories set in Afghanistan, Galway and London, this is a tribute to humanity's search for meaning and grace, from a writer at the height of his form, capable of imagining immensities even in the smallest corners of our lives.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780812986587
ISBN-10: 081298658X
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 131 x 203 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Random House

Notă biografică

Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of the novels TransAtlantic, Let the Great World Spin, Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, and Songdogs, as well as two critically acclaimed story collections. His fiction has been published in thirty-five languages. He has received many honors, including the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres award from the French government, and the Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary Award in Memory of Princess Grace. He has been named one of Esquire’s “Best and Brightest,” and his short film Everything in This Country Must was nominated for an Oscar in 2005. A contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review, he teaches in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing program. He lives in New York City with his wife and their three children, and he is the cofounder of the global nonprofit story exchange organization, Narrative 4.

Caracteristici

Colum McCann's most recent novel, TransAtlantic was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 and shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. His previous novel Let the Great World Spin, won the National Book Award and the IMPAC prize, was a New York Times bestseller and sold over a million copies worldwide

Recenzii

A superbly crafted and deeply moving collection of fiction.underscores [McCann's] reputation as a contemporary master
Separate and together, these four works prove McCann a master with a poet's ear, a psychologist's understanding, and a humanitarian's conscience
Quite simply one of the best, most sustained pieces of fiction I've read in some time ... A novel of true resonance and power
Beautifully hypnotic . Those who can't see the point of historical novels will find their answer here
Expertly constructed ... The prose is poetically vivid
Colum McCann is a very gifted, charming writer; in full, rhapsodic-onrush mode, he is hard to resist ... TransAtlantic is deft, well crafted, and broad in its imaginative range
Crime and violence shadow the accompanying stories, told from viewpoints including those of a nun recalling the man who raped and tortured her in South America decades earlier, and an author trying to write about a female soldier in Afghanistan
Like all the best books, Colum McCann's latest . is about time. Over the course of a novella and three short stories he probes our shifting relationship with it .It's in the flawless opening novella, which gives the collection its title, that McCann really lets loose . Thirteen Ways of Looking is a detective story turned inside out . "Sometimes it seems to me," he says in a note at the end, "that we are writing our lives in advance, but at other times we can only ever look back." In this superlative collection, which surely ranks among his finest work, he manages to express both possibilities at once
Such is McCann's command of rhythm in this short spark that you could open Thirteen Ways at any page and fall under its spell . Rich with his trademark lyrical, melancholic, ever so ex-pat Irish prose . It is going to resonate in your mulling head for days
I had been enjoying the fairground thrill of being willingly rattled by the fictional menace and mortality in these pages that, combined with the energy and playfulness of McCann's writing, made for good reading about bad things. Then the blow of the author's end note, with the spectre of reality (and autobiography) jostling its way into the fiction I had just read. Now I was rattled in a different way
A rich, poetic monologue, where memories, words and worlds collide . You wouldn't necessarily think that an account of a single day in the life of a frail old man could be so entrancing . McCann, who comes from Dublin, is an intensely literary writer, and his prose thrums with echoes of Beckett, Yeats and Joyce . What emerges from this rich, linguistic mix is a poignant and beautiful glimpse into the end of a life
Each character is cleanly drawn, each description rings true . strange and remarkable . One of the strengths of McCann's writing is his ability to place himself, and so his reader, in another's body . surprising and moving . The story (Sh'khol) wonderfully captures the exacting, awful mystery of love and the danger of loss
It is this idea, that reality trumps invention, which drives this beautifully written . discerning collection from Colum McCann, in which he breaks new ground in his brilliant literary career. Reading these stories is pleasurable and stimulating on a range of levels . The language is, as always with McCann, delightful. He writes with a sure sense of rhythm, and he has an enviably agile mastery of syntax . The author's frank note at the back, informing us of the link between real events and the fictional treatment, and his further elaboration of this connection on his website, give to the work an astonishing new dimension, distinguishing it from almost any other fiction
Atmospheric, unsettling ... Thirteen Ways is a clever, slick but movingly tender work, whose tone holds the attention from the start ... McCann's ability to slow the pace of action while allowing his prose to bubble and boil, heightens the febrile mood. And while Thirteen Ways of Looking is unarguably bleak, it is also rich
McCann is wonderfully good at conjuring up both the judge's present frailties and bemusements and the vibrancy of his past . chronicled with the author's customary assurance and alertness to detail
McCann's writing is elegant and ironic, sometimes absolutely beautiful
A fine collection of novella and three stories, from a supremely talented writer
Colum McCann achieves great intimacy and poignancy with his shrewd, fluent exploration of the mind's recesses . Although each is distinct, all four stories are crafted from the same lyrical prose in which every longing, fear and regret is deeply felt
In McCann's latest book, Thirteen Ways of Looking, worlds collide: past and present, fiction and non-fiction, seeing and believing, It comprises one brilliantly polished novella and three short stories and is among McCann's finest ... Made in Manhattan but its roots like that of the city and the author spread deep and wide
Two other novellas of note: Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann about a crime, and the ways of looking, as we follow a distinguished old man up to the moment of his death
As fine as anything McCann has written ... The judge's life is wonderfully evoked and the story also succeeds as a thriller in which surveillance plays a prominent role. Three short stories complete the book, the last a powerful tale of an elderly nun who confronts the now respectable diplomat who raped and tortured her decades earlier
Each character is cleanly drawn, each description rings true . One of McCann's strengths is his ability to place himself, and so his reader, in another body
Excellent collection . The old judge's life is richly and convincingly evoked, and the events that lead to his death are unravelled with masterful dramatic irony
This supremely talented and imaginative writer sure knows how to pack a punch