Memory Piece: Barack Obama's Reading List 2024 - Couverture rigide

Ko, Lisa

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0349704317 ISBN 13 : 9780349704319

Editeur : Dialogue Books, 2024

Synopsis

The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lisa Ko is the author of The Leavers, which was a 2017 National Book Award for Fiction finalist, won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award. The Leavers was a national best seller and was named a 'best book of the year' by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, The Los Angeles Times, and others. Ko's short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories and her essays and nonfiction have been published in The New York Times, The Believer, and elsewhere.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

"Wild and wonderful, punk and propulsive . . . Memory Piece is about authenticity, surveillance, capitalism, queerness, and the internet. It is about-it is-everything." -Julia Phillips, author of The Disappearing Earth

"Evocative and luminous. Ko once again introduces us to people we want to know deeply, then as always, delivers that and beyond. A glorious writer."-Jacqueline Woodson, author of Red at the Bone

"Remarkable . . . vividly captures the urgency of youth, and becomes a heartbreaking elegy for a communal, almost utopian approach to urban life." -Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind

"Dazzlingly inventive and knowing, Memory Piece is a bold and affecting novel about resistance, solidarity, and friendship."-Dana Spiotta, author of Eat the Document

"Bright with defiance, intelligence, and stubborn love. To spend time with these characters is a gift." -C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills is Gold

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life?

In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. "Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves," they envision each other as artistic collaborators and embark on a future defined by freedom and creativity.


By the time they are adults, their dreams are murkier. As a performance artist, Giselle must navigate an elite social world she never conceived of. As a coder thrilled by the internet's early egalitarian promise, Jackie must contend with its more sinister shift toward monetization and surveillance. And as a community activist, Ellen confronts the increasing gentrification and policing overwhelming her New York City neighborhood. Over time their friendship matures and changes, their definitions of success become complicated, and their sense of what matters evolves.


Moving from the predigital 1980s to the art and tech subcultures of the 1990s to a strikingly imagined portrait of the 2040s, Memory Piece is an innovative and audacious story of three lifelong friends as they strive to build satisfying lives in a world that turns out to be radically different from the one they were promised.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dialogue Books
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0349704317
• ISBN 13: 9780349704319
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Walk; n.pederzini@terminaldistribuzione.com; ; Via Bruno Buozzi, 24/26,; Granarolo dell'Emilia BO,; 40057; Italie