Bream Gives Me Hiccups: And Other Stories - Couverture souple

Eisenberg, Jesse

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1611855608 ISBN 13 : 9781611855609

Editeur : Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Tell your "Social Network!" The actor is writing a book. Move over, James Franco - Jesse Eisenberg is the newest young thespian to enter the writing ring. --USA Today
The latest literary star in the making is The Social Network's Jesse Eisenberg. --New York Observer
Eisenberg is truly a talented writer. Hilarious and poignant. --Entertainment Weekly
Jesse Eisenberg's hysterical and exciting stories... Capture the ridiculous, inappropriate and tender relationships between single mothers and their children with an honesty that will bring tears of laughter to your eyes. --Heather O'Neill
Brilliantly witty, deeply intelligent, and just plain hilarious... --Sherman Alexie
A remarkable book by an immensely talented writer. --Andy Borowitz
Jesse Eisenberg writes with formidable intellect and verbal dexterity... You'll want to give his debut collection 2000 out of 2000 stars. --Teddy Wayne
I've been a fan of Jesse Eisenberg's plays for years and his prose is just as winning... Hilarious, poignant and at times so self-deprecating it makes me want to give Jesse a hug. He's taken decades of neurosis and spun it into comedy gold. --Simon Rich
Jesse Eisenberg is a deeply original comic voice. These stories are about the funniness, sadness, and strangeness of everyday life and they really made me laugh. --Roz Chast

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"Written in the droll tradition of Woody Allen, Simon Rich and David Sedaris these short pieces from Jesse Eisenberg are hilarious and ironic. The series of stories that gives the book its unusual title are written from the point of view of a nine-year-old boy whose mother brings him to expensive Los Angeles restaurants so that she can bill her ex-husband for the meals. One story in this series begins: ""Last night, Mom and I went to Thanksgiving dinner at a Vegan family's house, which is kind of like going to Temple for Christmas. Mom said that Vegans are 'people that don't eat any meat or cheese or shave.'"" Other stories imagine discussions in ancient Pompeii just before the volcanic eruption, explore the vagaries of post-gender-normative dating in New York City, and conjure up Alexander Graham Bell's first five phone calls: ""Have you heard anything from Mabel? I've been calling her all day, she doesn't pick up! Yes, of course I dialled the right number - 2!"" In different ways, these stories explore what it means to navigate the modern world, and are all illuminated by Eisenberg's ironic wit and funny, original voice."

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1611855608
• ISBN 13: 9781611855609
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288