Eight in Three Weeks - Couverture souple

Cohn, David Pablo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 193272723X ISBN 13 : 9781932727234

Editeur : Montemayor Press, 2017

Synopsis

David Pablo Cohn's EIGHT IN THREE WEEKS presents a masterful writer's debut collection of short stories. By turns understated, harrowing, humorous, and mysterious, these stories reveal Cohn's capacity for inhabiting and revealing the consciousness of an unusually wide range of characters. Women, men, and children from different cultures, subcultures, professions, and age groups are all vivid and moving as they undertake their quests, undergo their struggles, and reach their epiphanies.

In "The Duchess," a working-class man named Billy copes with midlife angst by attempting to build a sailboat--a project that drags on as unsatisfactorily as the rest of his life. "Abraham and Sarah," by contrast, not only revisits the Biblical story about the couple of that name but also segues to a modern-day Abraham and Sarah whose experiences both echo the Hebrew Bible's account and diverge from the ancient outcome. Perhaps most unusual is "On Ziahtown Road," in which an old, sick Liberian man sets off on foot to find his missing daughter but takes a stranger, longer voyage than he anticipated. Other stories - "Bragging Rights," "Water on Travertine," "Fly Away," and "Eight in Three Weeks" - demonstrate Cohn's impressive ability to delve into children's minds and to explore boys' and girls' bafflement as they attempt to figure out the adult world's mysteries. Three other narratives - "Artifacts," "Last Night Ashore," and "Tales from the Ice" - vividly reflect Cohn's first-hand knowledge of Antarctic bases while deployed as a computer scientist to the South Pole Station and elsewhere on the earth's coldest continent.

Throughout EIGHT IN THREE WEEKS, David Pablo Cohn manifests nuanced command of the short story genre as well as imaginative insights into the human condition.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Pablo Cohn has had a broadly ranging career. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington and undergraduate degrees in Physics and Computer Science from Dartmouth College. He was the co-founder and Managing Editor for the highly-respected Journal of Machine Learning Research, and served as the technical lead for Google Labs. At present he deploys to Antarctica several times a year, serving as a software architect and systems/network administrator for the US Antarctic Program. Dr. Cohn has published non-fiction in such diverse venues as Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Flight Training Magazine and the Paris Review Daily. His first novella, Heller's Tale, has won praise from armchair adventurers and Antarctic veterans alike.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Montemayor Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 193272723X
• ISBN 13: 9781932727234
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible