Panorama City - Couverture rigide

Wilson, Antoine

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0547875126 ISBN 13 : 9780547875125

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Praise for Panorama City

"This is a book you will hold in your head all day long, a book you will look forward to when you get home from work, a book you will still be savoring as you drift into sleep. Panorama City is often very funny. It is filled with joy and wonder, and a sort of goodness you had stopped believing might be even possible. Antoine Wilson’s sentences are like diamond necklaces but his greatest treasure is his human heart."—Peter Carey

 

"Antoine Wilson draws us in to the weird, wonderful world of Oppen Porter, whose advice and lessons are jarringly original, funny, and moving."--Steve Hely, author of How I Became a Famous Novelist, Winner of the Thurber Award

 

Praise for The Interloper:

"Confident, well-paced and very, very creepy. Were [Antoine Wilson] to meddle in literary affairs again and again, the world would be the better for it."--The San Diego Union Tribune

 

"OH, what thrilling dread, falling in with a character as twisted as the narrator of Antoine Wilson's terrific first novel, The Interloper. It's like leaving a party with a designated driver, only to discover as you swerve down the driveway that your new friend is drunker than you are. Or worse, completely insane....He hums along like a cross between Dostoevsky's brooding Raskolnikov and Camus' maddeningly rational Meursault, overheated and illogical and, of course, doomed."--Jess Walter, The Los Angeles Times

 

"A taut debut novel...It's clear from the start that Owen is doomed, but the queasy thrills of the novel derive from watching the scheme and the marriage unravel."--The New Yorker

 

"[A] standout, tautly-written debut novel...At times horrifying and at times laugh out loud funny, The Interloper makes for compulsive reading...Wilson tightly orchestrates the entire disaster, leaving us wondering how badly things will end up...succeeding to write a gripping first novel that defies expectations."--The Brooklyn Rail

 

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Oppen Porter, a self-described “slow absorber,” thinks he’s dying. He’s not, but from his hospital bed, he unspools into a cassette recorder a tale of self-determination, from village idiot to man of the world, for the benefit of his unborn son.

Written in an astonishingly charming and wise voice, Panorama City traces forty days and nights navigating the fast food joints, storefront churches, and home-office psychologists of the San Fernando Valley. Ping-ponging between his watchful and sharp-tongued aunt and an outlaw philosopher with the face "of a newly hatched crocodile," Oppen finds himself constantly in the sights of people who believe that their way is the only way for him.

Open-hearted, bicycle-riding, binocular-toting Oppen Porter is "an American original" (Stewart O'Nan) for whom finding one's own way is both a delightful art and a painstaking science. Disarmingly funny and surreptitiously moving, Panorama City makes us see the world, and our place in it, with new eyes.
 

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0547875126
• ISBN 13: 9780547875125
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 304