Amy Falls Down - Couverture souple

WILLETT, JINCY

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1250050251 ISBN 13 : 9781250050250

Editeur : Picador Paper, 2014

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Praise for The Writing Class: Willet's delicious satire savages every literary pretension imaginable.--The Miami Herald. A marvelous toy of a book, full of wry surprises and sly twists...extremely clever and quite enjoyable. --Booklist. Praise for Winner of the National Book Award. The funniest novel I have read, possibly ever. --Augusten Burroughs. Riotous [and] hugely funny. --The New York Times. The author mows down worlds of artistic and psychological twaddle with killer sprays of language. Willett is effortlessly, furiously funny. . . . . --Entertainment Weekly. Poignant and funny, mean and tender, Willett's novel is exuberantly original.--Publishers Weekly (starred review) An elegy wrapped inside a satire, a sorrowful meditation on the mysteries of sibling love and rivalry concealed within a bitterly funny chronicle of literary buffoonery. Jincy Willett is a fearless writer, capable of startling the reader into rueful laughter at every turn.--Tom Perrotta. Praise for Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Exquisite...A great, darkly comic collection.--Esquire. The funniest collection of stories I've ever read--really funny and perfectly sad at the same time.David Sedaris --Various

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The endearingly bitter writer, Amy Gallup has happily isolated herself from the world spending the last two decades teaching and reviewing-she's done a lot of thinking...but very little writing. On an unassuming morning, in her slippers, Amy trips in her backyard, goes head-over-heels, and into the side of a birdbath. The hospital clears her of head injury - so Amy returns home. When a local reporter shows up for a scheduled interview - Amy is not quite herself. The article paints Amy as a the zen-goddess of writing, publishing...and life. Her bizarre interview was interpreted as the rambling of a true genius. But all that really happened was: Amy fell down! The next thing she knows, friends and fans are coming out of the woodwork. Suddenly Amy is on radio shows, keynoting a major publishing event, and guiding a local writers' retreat. But the strangest thing of all: Amy starts to write.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Picador Paper
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1250050251
• ISBN 13: 9781250050250
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336