Thirteen Ways of Looking
Autor Colum McCannen Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 feb 2016
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Story Prize (2016)
" As 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. "
In the exuberant title novella, a retired judge reflects on his life s work, unaware as he goes about his daily routines that this particular morning will be his last. In Sh khol, a mother spending Christmas alone with her son confronts the unthinkable when he disappears while swimming off the coast near their home in Ireland. In Treaty, an elderly nun catches a snippet of a news report in which it is revealed that the man who once kidnapped and brutalized her is alive, masquerading as an agent of peace. And in What Time Is It Now, Where You Are? a writer constructs a story about a Marine in Afghanistan calling home on New Year s Eve.
Deeply personal, subtly subversive, at times harrowing, and indeed funny, yet also full of comfort, "Thirteen Ways of Looking" is a striking achievement. With unsurpassed empathy for his characters and their inner lives, Colum McCann forges from their stories a profound tribute to our search for meaning and grace. The collection is a rumination on the power of storytelling in a world where language and memory can sometimes falter, but in the end do not fail us, and a contemplation of the healing power of literature.
Praise for Colum McCann
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"Let the Great World Spin"
Winner of the National Book Award
One of the most electric, profound novels I have read in years. Jonathan Mahler, "The New York Times Book Review"
Stunning . . . an] elegiac glimpse of hope. "USA Today"
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There s so much passion and humor and pure life force on every page that you ll find yourself giddy, dizzy, overwhelmed. Dave Eggers
"TransAtlantic"
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prizeand the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Reminiscent of the finest work of Michael Ondaatje and Michael Cunningham. "O: The Oprah Magazine"
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Here is the uncanny thing McCann finds again and again about the miraculous: that it is inseparable from the everyday. "The Boston Globe"
Another sweeping, beautifully constructed tapestry of life . . . Reading McCann is a rare joy. "The Seattle Times""
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781410486097
ISBN-10: 1410486095
Pagini: 324
Dimensiuni: 142 x 218 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: Thorndike Press Large Print
ISBN-10: 1410486095
Pagini: 324
Dimensiuni: 142 x 218 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: Thorndike Press Large Print
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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
Notă biografică
Colum McCann, originally from Dublin, Ireland, is the author of six novels and three collections of stories. His most recent novel, TransAtlantic, was longlisted for the Man Booker 2013, and his previous novel, Let the Great World Spin, won the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a New York Times bestseller. His fiction has been published in thirty-five languages. He lives in New York. colummccann.com
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
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
Premii
- Story Prize Finalist, 2016