Avalon din Nell Zink

Categorie: Bücher
Pagini / Format: 224 S
Anul apariţiei: 2022
Editura: Faber&Faber, LondonFaber&Faber
Limba: Englisch
ISBN: 9780571376957
ediţie / volum: Export

Zink delves into class, art, and American culture in a characteristically witty bildungsroman . . . Even more impactful than the intellectual ballistics is the tortured romance story. The style is all Zink's own, and she's as brilliant as ever here. Publishers Weekly (starred review)The new novel from one of America's most original voices-a wild, blackly funny story of female emancipation and the journey to one's own utopia.'A gorgeous love story and a hilarious political novel about precarity and abuse in the era of late capitalism.'Neel Mukherjee, author of Man Booker Prize-shortlisted The Lives of Others<br><br>'Zink's confidence and authority as a writer are evident from Avalon's killer first sentences.'LA Times<br><br>Bran's Southern California upbringing is anything but traditional. After her mother abandons her and joins a Buddhist colony, Bran is raised by her'common-law stepfather'on Bourdon Farms - a plant nursery that doubles as a cover for a biker gang. She spends her days tending plants, slogging through high school and imagining what life could be if she had been born to a different family.<br><br>Then she meets Peter-a charming, troubled college student from the East Coast - who launches his teaching career by initiating her into the world of art. The two begin a seemingly doomed long-distance relationship as Bran searches for meaning in her own surroundings. She knows how to survive, but now she must learn how to live.<br><br>'Zink is a comic writer par excellence.'New Yorker<br>'An extraordinary talent.'Daily Telegraph1GBNell Zink left Southern California for eastern Virginia in 1972, aged eight. After completing a B.A. in philosophy at the College of William and Mary, she worked mostly as a secretary, with stints in masonry, technical writing, and translating. Her books include The Wallcreeper, Mislaid, Private Novelist, Nicotine, and Doxology, and her writing has appeared in n+1, Granta, and Harper's Magazine.

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