A Permanent Member of the Family - Couverture souple

Banks, Russell

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0061857661 ISBN 13 : 9780061857669

Editeur : Ecco, 2014

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“Old-fashioned short fiction: honest, probing and moving.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“[O]ne of the best books I’ve read in years” (Real Simple magazine)

“Mr. Banks uses his sturdy gifts as a writer ― his plain-spoken language, his sympathy for the downtrodden and depressed, his eye for detail (those unstrapped shoes, flipped off Ellen’s feet) ― to give us visceral portraits of people trying to make sense of the past and the present.” (New York Times)

“While these exquisitely crafted stories are highly personal, they are also permeated by a sense of sadness about the death of the American dream, as the country struggles, out of work and seemingly out of hope.” (Publishers Weekly)

A resounding collection by an essential American writer. (Booklist)

“...an exceptionally well-written, engaging, unified collection” (New York Journal of Books)

“...Banks’s short fiction is relentlessly realistic, never cynical, and always attentive to the human condition.” (Shelf Awareness)

Banks is a master of the kind of old-school, unadorned realism that hasn’t really been the fashion in short stories since the days of Raymond Carver. (New York Times Book Review)

“These characters are all broken in wonderfully literary ways (’When a terrible thing happens, and it’s your own damn fault, there’s no closure, he thought. Whatever happened, you live with it.’) but Banks is primarily concerned with telling a good story, and the pages fly by.” (Daily Beast)

“It’s a gift to experience such expertly evoked pathos, to see how Banks meticulously picks out and exposes the strands of his characters’ muddled and suppressed feelings.” (Boston Globe)

Quatrième de couverture :

A masterly collection of new stories from Russell Banks, acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter and Rule of the Bone, which maps the complex terrain of the modern American family

The New York Times lauds Russell Banks as "the most compassionate fiction writer working today." Long celebrated for his unflinching, empathetic works that explore the unspoken but hard realities of contemporary culture, Banks now turns his keen intelligence and emotional acuity on perhaps his most complex subject yet: the shape of family in its many forms.

Suffused with Banks's trademark lyricism and reckless humor, the twelve stories in A Permanent Member of the Family examine the myriad ways we try—and sometimes fail—to connect with one another, as we seek a home in the world.

Moving between the stark beauty of winter in upstate New York and the seductive heat of Florida, A Permanent Member of the Family charts with subtlety and precision the ebb and flow of both the families we make for ourselves and the ones we're born into. One of our most acute and penetrating authors, Banks is a virtuosic writer whose stories are profoundly humane, deeply—and darkly—funny, and absolutely unforgettable.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ecco
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0061857661
• ISBN 13: 9780061857669
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240