The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W - Couverture rigide

Brownstein, Gabriel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 039305151X ISBN 13 : 9780393051513

Editeur : W W Norton & Co Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Brownstein Gabriel

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Nine Salingeresque stories about New Yorkers and their marvelous eccentricities. This brilliantly inventive first collection captures the disparate lives of the residents of Manhattan's West 89th Street. Five stories are set in one apartment building, where young Davie Birnbaum watches his neighbors' lives unfold. The title story reworks F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," whose hero is born as an old man and ages in reverse; Brownstein's Button lives on the third floor, fading away toward infancy. In apartment 7E, a lawyer named Zauberman reenacts the life of Hawthorne's Wakefield: he abandons his family so that he can spy on them. Meanwhile, the proctologist in the penthouse plays Icarus and Daedalus with his misfit son. These are tales of literary voyeurism, as the narrators look in on other people's everyday victories and misfortunes? marriages, car accidents, love affairs, and adoptions? and make sense of what they see by thinking about the stories they know best. Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award; Finalist for the Book-of-the-Month Club First Fiction Award; Chosen as a 2002 Book to Remember by the New York Public Library.

Biographie de l'auteur

Gabriel Brownstein   won the Pen/ Hemingway Award for his collection The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 039305151X
• ISBN 13: 9780393051513
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible