Reunion

Zusatztext “Elegant . . . spare! economical and charged with meaning .” -- The New York Times Book Review   "One of a handful of writers in America capable of injecting the necessary quietude into his prose. . . . Reunion is that rare thing in this age: a genuine work of art." -- Denver Post   “A skillful exercise in the evocation of memory and loss. . . . Lightman’s delicate prose turns [ Reunion ] into a fascinating study.” — The Washington Post Book World “Marvelously written. . . . A worthy addition to Lightman's work.” -- Rocky Mountain News "Lightman's prose leaps and twirls! circles his subjects and raises them up. If Degas or Manet had written prose it would read like this. . . . Reunion is that rare thing in this age: a genuine work of art."  -- Denver Post “A skillful exercise in the evocation of memory and loss. . . . Lightman’s delicate prose turns [ Reunion ] into a fascinating study.” -- The Washington Post Book World “ Reunion seeks . . . to plumb life's most complicated and enduring relationship: that between who one was and who one is. . . . Reunion most powerfully explores the seductions and betrayals of young love.”   --The New York Times “Undeniably affecting. . . . Memorably lovely. . . . Lightman’s lyrical meditation on aging and nostalgia [will] hit home for just about any reader.” -- San Francisco Chronicle “Haunting. . . . He has a Proustian concern for manipulations of time and memory . . . [a] melancholy grasp of the sovereign ineluctability of time! that ‘hour of eternity.’ . . . Such a rueful consciousness is a pleasure to witness.” -- Boston Globe "A profoundly human story! rich in depth and nuance. . . . Lightman writes with a lightness! a lyrical understatedness that belies the underlying depths and complexities of the novel. . . . Reunion is the work of a great writer." -- The Globe and Mail (Toronto) “Prose both luminous and precise. . . . The images of lightness and beauty and grace! of complexity and obsession that Lightman conjures through Charles’ vision of his lover make us participate in Charles’ yearning.” -- The San Diego Union Tribune "A subtle and haunting novel. . . . In Lightman's hands! the act of remembrance becomes a meditation on time! loss! and the ultimate selfishness of love. His writing gets under your skin precisely because of its measured and undemonstrative tone." -- Daily Mail (London) “An achingly beautiful story about memory and the loss of passion. . . . Lightman succeeds in writing an inventive! unsentimental love story.” — The Newark Star-Ledger "Uncommonly rich imagination  . . . a masterful touch." -- Rocky Mountain News Informationen zum Autor ALAN LIGHTMAN is the author of seven novels, including the international best seller Einstein’s Dreams and The Diagnosis , a finalist for the National Book Award. He has taught at Harvard and at MIT, where he was the first person to receive a dual faculty appointment in science and the humanities. He is the host of the public television series Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science . He is a professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT. Klappentext Charles, a once-promising poet, is a professor at a minor liberal arts college, admiring of passion but without passion himself. Now living a desperately comfortable existence, he decides to return to his thirtieth college reunion. While there, he relives an intense love affair he had with a beautiful ballerina that forever changed his life.  At times shocked, admiring, and furious with his younger self, Charles remembers contradictory versions of events, until reality and identity dissolve into a haze of illusion. Reunion explores the pain of self-examinat...

A propos de l'auteur

ALAN LIGHTMAN is the author of seven novels, including the international best seller Einstein’s Dreams and The Diagnosis, a finalist for the National Book Award. He has taught at Harvard and at MIT, where he was the first person to receive a dual faculty appointment in science and the humanities. He is the host of the public television series Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science. He is a professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Alan Lightman
• Edition: Vintage USA
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 09.11.2004
• EAN: 9780375713446
• ISBN: 978-0-375-71344-6
• Pages: 240
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 202 mm x 16 mm
• Thèmes: Vintage Contemporaries; Vintage Contemporaries; Knopf
• Catégorie: Littérature > Science-fiction , fantastique