Memory Wall - Stories

Informationen zum Autor Anthony Doerr is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See . He is also the author of two story collections, Memory Wall and The Shell Collector ; the novel About Grace ; and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome . He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons. Klappentext A new collection of short stories from an award-winning author, including "The Deep", which was awarded the 2011 "Sunday Times" Short Story Award. From the author of "The Shell Collector". Reissue. Zusammenfassung From the author of ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE! a collection of stories about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives! the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others.

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'It's fair to say that Anthony Doerr is doing things with the short story that have rarely been attempted and seldom achieved. The stories in Memory Wall have such scope and depth that they hit as hard as novels three times their length. Doerr has set a new standard, I think, for what a story can do.' Dave Eggers
'Ambitiously wide-ranging and inventive, Doerr's six stories movingly investigate the ways in which we are nothing without memory.' Sunday Times
'Doerr is a lusciously good stylist.' Guardian
'If this book's wisdom can be summed up in a single line it is this one, from 'Afterworld': 'Within the wet enclosure of a single mind a person can fly from one decade to the next, one country to another, past to present, memory to imagination.' That thought informs Memory Wall many times.' Janet Maslin, Scotsman

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Doerr, Doerr Anthony
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.01.2012
• EAN: 9780007367726
• ISBN: 978-0-00-736772-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Kansas, FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Lithuania, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, c 1940 to c 1949, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Fiction based on or inspired by true events, The;Of;Brontë;Love;Family;Marriage;Romance;Modern