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American Innovations

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  • Fourth Estate

  • Paru le : 08/05/2014
A short-story collection from one of America's brightest young talents. In one of these intensely imaginative stories a young woman's furniture walks... > Lire la suite
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A short-story collection from one of America's brightest young talents. In one of these intensely imaginative stories a young woman's furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator feels compelled to deliver a takeout order that has incorrectly been phoned in to her. In a third, the petty details of a property transaction illuminate the complicated dependences and loves of a family. Following spiralling paths towards utterly logical, entirely absurd conclusions, Galchen's creations occupy a dreamlike dimension, where time is fluid and identities are best defined by the qualities they lack.
The tales in this groundbreaking collection are secretly in conversation with canonical stories, allowing the reader the pleasure of discovering familiar favourites in new guises. Here 'The Lost Order' covertly recapitulates James Thurber's 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', while 'The Region of Unlikeness' playfully mirrors Jorge Luis Borges's 'The Aleph'. By turns realistic, fantastical and lyrical, all these marvellously uneasy stories share a deeply emotional core and are written in dryly witty, pitch-perfect prose.
Whether exploring the tensions in a mother-daughter relationship or the finer points of time travel, Galchen is a writer of eye-opening ingenuity.

Fiche technique

  • Date de parution : 08/05/2014
  • Editeur : Fourth Estate
  • ISBN : 978-0-00-754879-8
  • EAN : 9780007548798
  • Format : ePub
  • Nb. de pages : 192 pages
  • Caractéristiques du format ePub
    • Pages : 192
    • Protection num. : Contenu protégé

À propos de l'auteur

Biographie de Rivka Galchen

Rivka Galchen received her MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, having spent a year in South America working on public health issues. Galchen completed her MFA at Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham Fellow. Her essay on the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics was published in The Believer, and she is the recipient of a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Galchen lives in New York City.
She is the author of the novel Atmospheric Disturbances.
Rivka Galchen - American Innovations.
American Innovations
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