Rowing Lesson - Couverture souple

Landsman, Anne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1569475288 ISBN 13 : 9781569475287

Editeur : Soho Pr Inc, 2008

Synopsis

Book by Landsman Anne

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Winner of the South African M-Net Literary Prize (English category).

“Rarely in South African writing will we encounter language of such fire and passion.”—J.M. Coetzee

“The beauty of The Rowing Lesson is in its fluid metaphors, its urgent storytelling . . . and the lyric desperation of a daughter’s love.”— O Magazine

“Beautiful. . . . Unfailingly original.”—Jennifer Egan

“Visceral. . . . Intensely exhilarating.”— The New York Times Book Review

“Like Joyce or William Gass or John Edgar Wideman, Anne Landsman fashions a sensual web of memory and desire, rescuing a world on the brink of extinction through the power of her lyricism.”—Stewart O’Nan

“Amazing.”— Los Angeles Times

“A tour de force.”—Roxana Robinson

“An adventure in language. . . . It makes art of life.”—Louis Menand

Betsy Klein is summoned from her home in the United States to the bedside of her dying father in a South African hospital. Faced with having to say goodbye, she delves into his mind, speaking to him in the lyrical second-person. She imaginatively recreates his life—his struggles to become a doctor after being orphaned young and his fight to win the respect of his Boer patients as a Jew—as well as her own experiences with him as a father.

Anne Landsman was born and raised in South Africa and received degrees from the University of Cape Town and Columbia University. Her debut novel, The Devil’s Chimney, also set in South Africa, was a Book of the Month Club Quality Paperback Selection and was nominated for a PEN/Hemingway Award. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.

Biographie de l'auteur

Anne Landsman is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Devil's Chimney, which was nominated for four awards (the Pen/Hemingway Award, QPB's New Voices, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and South Africa's most prestigious literary award, the M-Net Book Prize). She has been published in numerous publications in the USA including the American Poetry Review and the Washington Post - and the Guardian, Sunday Telegraph, Jewish Quarterly, Red and Psychologies in the UK.

Anne Landsman was born, and grew up, in South Africa. She now lives in New York with her husband and two children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Soho Pr Inc
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1569475288
• ISBN 13: 9781569475287
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 279
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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