Silent History, The - Couverture souple

Horowitz, Eli

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0374534470 ISBN 13 : 9780374534479

Editeur : FSG Originals, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Sometime right around now, doctors, nurses and-most of all-parents begin to notice an epidemic spreading among newborn children, children who are physically normal in every way except that they do not speak and do not respond to speech. They don't learn to read, don't learn to write. Theories abound-maybe a popular antidepressant is the cause. Maybe these children, lacking the ability to use or comprehend language, have special skills of their own.

Unfolding in a series of brief testimonials from parents, teachers, friends, doctors, cult leaders, profiteers, impostors-everyone touched by the silent phenomenon except, of course, the children themselves-The Silent History is both a bold storytelling experiment and an unexpectedly propulsive reading experience. Originally conceived and serially published as an award-winning iPhone/iPad app by Eli Horowitz, the former publisher of McSweeney's, along with two acclaimed novelists (Matthew Derby and Kevin Moffett) and one intrepid coder (Russell Quinn), the book has been re-edited and, at times, rewritten into a definitive, nuanced and unputdownable text, a story that is timely, timeless and terrifying.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Eli Horowitz is the former managing editor and publisher of McSweeney's. He is the co-author of The Clock Without a Face, a treasure-hunt mystery, and Everything You Know Is Pong, an illustrated cultural history of ping pong. His design work has been honoured by i-D, Print and the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

Matthew Derby is a writer and designer and the author of the story collection Super Flat Times. His writing has appeared in McSweeney's, The Believer, Guernica and The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. He also works at a video game studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
www.matthewderby.org

Kevin Moffett is the author of two highly praised story collections, Permanent Visitors and Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, Tin House, American Short Fiction, as well as in three editons of The Best American Short Stories. He is the winner of the Nelson Algren Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the National Magazine Award. He lives in California.
www.kevinmoffett.org

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: FSG Originals
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0374534470
• ISBN 13: 9780374534479
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 528