KNOWN AND STRANGE THINGS; Essays

Cole, Teju

ISBN 10: 0812989783 / ISBN 13: 9780812989786

Edité par Random House, NY, 2016

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1st printing (2016). "A Random house Trade Paperback Original." Minor handling wear.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: KNOWN AND STRANGE THINGS; Essays
• Éditeur: Random House, NY
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0812989783
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780812989786
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Fiction Trade Paperbacks

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Synopsis

With this collection of more than fifty pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. On page after page, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W. G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram. Cole brings us new considerations of James Baldwin in the age of Black Lives Matter; the African American photographer Roy DeCarava, who, forced to shoot with film calibrated exclusively for white skin tones, found his way to a startling and true depiction of black subjects; and (in an essay that inspired both praise and pushback when it first appeared) the White Savior Industrial Complex, the system by which African nations are sentimentally aided by an America "developed on pillage." Persuasive and provocative, erudite yet accessible, Known and Strange Things is an opportunity to live within Teju Cole's wide-ranging enthusiasms, curiosities, and passions, and a chance to see the world in surprising and affecting new frames.

À propos de l?auteur

Teju Cole was born in the United States in 1975 and raised in Nigeria. He is the author of Every Day Is for the Thief and Open City, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Internationaler Literaturpreis, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the New York City Book Award, and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His photography has been exhibited in India and the United States. He is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.