Children of the New World: Stories - Couverture souple

Weinstein, Alexander

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1925498387 ISBN 13 : 9781925498387

Editeur : The Text Publishing Company, 2016

Synopsis

**Shortlisted for the Rubery Book Award 2018**

'Mind-blowing... In the vein of George Saunders, Rick Bass, and Alex Shakar, Weinstein writes with stirring particularity, unfailing sensitivity, and supercharged imagination, creating nuanced stories harboring a molten core of astutely satirical inquiries' (Booklist)

A creator of virtual memories struggles to distinguish real-life experience from manufactured events. A childless couple conceive two children in an online world, only for their imagined life to be infected by a computer virus. The robotic brother of an adopted Chinese child 'dies', and a family realises how real a son he had become.

Alexander Weinstein's debut story collection, CHILDREN OF THE NEW WORLD, imagines a near future of social-media implants and instant connection, environmental collapse and post-revolution discord. It grapples with our unease in the modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of our society. Alexander Weinstein is a visionary new voice for all of us who are fascinated by and terrified of what we might find on the horizon.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alexander Weinstein is the director of the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. He is the recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, and his stories have received the Lamar York, Gail Crump, Hamlin Garland and New Millennium Prizes, have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and appear in the anthology New Stories from the Midwest (New American Press, 2013). He is an associate professor of Creative Writing at Siena Heights University and leads fiction workshops in the United States and Europe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Text Publishing Company
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1925498387
• ISBN 13: 9781925498387
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible