Your Fathers, Where Are They? and the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?: And Other Stories
Autor Dave Eggersen Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 mai 2015
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What do you do when you re full of questions: what happened to missions to the moon? Why spend a trillion dollars on war? Where did America go wrong? If you re Thomas, a young man nursing migraines and a lack of direction, this calls for drastic action. To find some answers, Thomas kidnaps a NASA astronaut and brings him to an abandoned military base on the edge of the California coast. Then the questioning begins. The answers must be honest. The back and forth might even hurt. It might get uncomfortable. But eventually the truth will emerge."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780307947536
ISBN-10: 030794753X
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 132 x 201 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Colecția Vintage Books
ISBN-10: 030794753X
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 132 x 201 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Colecția Vintage Books
Notă biografică
Dave Eggers
Recenzii
One
of
our
fiercest
and
most
compelling
writers
Eggers can write about pretty much anything and make it glitter and somersault on the page . . . dazzling and highly original
Possibly the most admired and emulated American author of his generation
A jazz session - a brief, single helping of strangeness that flaunts his panache for stylistic experimentation. . . The writing is compelling and the characterization astute
Inherently interesting. I can think of few contemporary American writers who convey such a sense of urgency about the mess we're in. Eggers pulls no punches
A one-sitting read . . . insightful
One of the country's leading literary eminences
Eggers writes so well you would read a computer manual if it was by him, but beneath his beguiling style is a base note of genuine concern about those who find themselves out of kilter with society.
His latest novella, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? stretches his toying with literary forms to new lengths...compelling
But with each tightly controlled book, Eggers' fiction becomes more prescient, moving and unsettling... Even if all generations are lost generations, we need engaged, incendiary novels which ask: What now?
The faint echo of Plato's dialogues . . . Raising questions about the appropriate
relationship between authority and compassion.
An angry and astute investigation into the state of America ... Politically and polemically engaged in the tradition of Dickens and Zola.
Eggers has a knack for potent images of frustration . . [He] has produced something timely
A major talent. His voice - loud, sardonic, compassionate, and honest . . . Eggers has developed into a profoundly serious novelist and nonfiction writer with a social and political conscience.
Dave Eggers never writes the same book twice, and his latest may be his most unusual to date . . . [A] fleet and forceful story by one of our finest fiction writers . . .stark exchanges, with little exposition ... propels the reader to the end.
Unmistakably the work of a singular talent. . . Even if all generations are lost generations, we need engaged, incendiary novels which ask: What now?
Fathersis a screaming, bleating cry for society to fix itself. It is a frothing, angry, mournful meditation on what is slipping away as America plows on into the 21st century... compelling
Another startling leap into new territory . . . Here is a tale as tightly wound as an alarm clock. . . Eggers has always been as elastic writer, but inYour Fathershe puts his language to the ultimate test.
This short, provocative novel feels a bit like Jack Bauer stepping into Kierkegaard's collected works. . . ambitiously confronts a grand history of philosophical angst . . . Swift and smart.
Engaging . . . You know what Eggers wants to say, he says it quickly, and he says it with a respectably righteous fury. And, ultimately, he says it with a compassion that's always been present in his work . . . Fascinating.
Within 212 pages, Eggers displays a delicate, haunting, sometimes dire picture of the world. It may not be a comfortable read, but it's an interesting take on what we believe to be true and what we hope to be true.
Eggers can write about pretty much anything and make it glitter and somersault on the page . . . dazzling and highly original
Possibly the most admired and emulated American author of his generation
A jazz session - a brief, single helping of strangeness that flaunts his panache for stylistic experimentation. . . The writing is compelling and the characterization astute
Inherently interesting. I can think of few contemporary American writers who convey such a sense of urgency about the mess we're in. Eggers pulls no punches
A one-sitting read . . . insightful
One of the country's leading literary eminences
Eggers writes so well you would read a computer manual if it was by him, but beneath his beguiling style is a base note of genuine concern about those who find themselves out of kilter with society.
His latest novella, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? stretches his toying with literary forms to new lengths...compelling
But with each tightly controlled book, Eggers' fiction becomes more prescient, moving and unsettling... Even if all generations are lost generations, we need engaged, incendiary novels which ask: What now?
The faint echo of Plato's dialogues . . . Raising questions about the appropriate
relationship between authority and compassion.
An angry and astute investigation into the state of America ... Politically and polemically engaged in the tradition of Dickens and Zola.
Eggers has a knack for potent images of frustration . . [He] has produced something timely
A major talent. His voice - loud, sardonic, compassionate, and honest . . . Eggers has developed into a profoundly serious novelist and nonfiction writer with a social and political conscience.
Dave Eggers never writes the same book twice, and his latest may be his most unusual to date . . . [A] fleet and forceful story by one of our finest fiction writers . . .stark exchanges, with little exposition ... propels the reader to the end.
Unmistakably the work of a singular talent. . . Even if all generations are lost generations, we need engaged, incendiary novels which ask: What now?
Fathersis a screaming, bleating cry for society to fix itself. It is a frothing, angry, mournful meditation on what is slipping away as America plows on into the 21st century... compelling
Another startling leap into new territory . . . Here is a tale as tightly wound as an alarm clock. . . Eggers has always been as elastic writer, but inYour Fathershe puts his language to the ultimate test.
This short, provocative novel feels a bit like Jack Bauer stepping into Kierkegaard's collected works. . . ambitiously confronts a grand history of philosophical angst . . . Swift and smart.
Engaging . . . You know what Eggers wants to say, he says it quickly, and he says it with a respectably righteous fury. And, ultimately, he says it with a compassion that's always been present in his work . . . Fascinating.
Within 212 pages, Eggers displays a delicate, haunting, sometimes dire picture of the world. It may not be a comfortable read, but it's an interesting take on what we believe to be true and what we hope to be true.
Premii
- Audies Finalist, 2015