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Friday Black - Stories

Inglese · Tascabile

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Zusatztext Praise for Friday Black   INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   Named a Best Book by:  New York Times, TIME, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Huffington Post , Guardian, BuzzFeed , Newsweek, Harper’s Bazaar, Nylon , Boston Globe, Southern Living , O, the Oprah Magazine, Chicago Tribune , The Verge, The Root, Vulture , Philadelphia Inquirer , The Millions , New York Observer , Literary Hub ,  Color Lines, PopSugar , PEN America, The Rumpus, BookPage , St. Louis Post-Dispatch , the CBC, Longreads, Publishers Weekly , Kirkus , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , Library Journal, The Big Issue, Chicago Public Library, My Domaine , Locus Magazine, Bookish , Read It Forward, Entropy Magazine , WAMC, Hudson Booksellers, and The Seattle Review of Books    One of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honorees, chosen by Colson Whitehead   Winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award   Winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing in Fiction   Winner of the Rockland Arts Council's Literary Artist Award   One of the New York Times ' 100 Notable Books of 2018   Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for Best First Book   Finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize   Finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize   Finalist for the American Booksellers Association's Indie Choice Book Awards   Finalist for the New England Book Awards   Finalist for the John Gardner Award for Fiction   Finalist for the Balcones Fiction Prize   An Indie Next Pick   Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Fiction   Longlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award   A National Indie Bestseller  A Los Angeles Times Bestseller  A Boston Globe Bestseller   A New York Times Editors' Choice   A 2019 Notable Book from the American Library Association    “A powerful and important and strange and beautiful collection of stories . . . An unbelievable debut, one that announces a new and necessary American voice . . . A dystopian story collection as full of violence as it is of heart. To achieve such an honest pairing of gore with tenderness is no small feat . . . Violence is only gratuitous when it serves no purpose, and throughout Friday Black we are aware that the violence is crucially related to both what is happening in America now, and what happened in its bloody and brutal history . . . In smart, terse prose, Adjei-Brenyah is unflinching, and willing, in most of these 12 stories, to leave us without any apparent hope. But the hope is there—or if it isn’t hope, it’s maybe something better: levelheaded, compassionate protagonists, with just enough integrity and ambivalence that they never feel sentimental. Each of these individuals carries a subtle clarity about what matters most when nothing makes sense in these strange and brutal worlds he builds . . . Adjei-Brenyah’s voice here is as powerful and original as Saunders’s is throughout Tenth of December . . .  [Adjei-Brenyah] is here to signal a warning, or perhaps just to say this is what it feels like , in stories that move and breathe and explode on the page. In Friday Black , the dystopian future Adjei-Brenyah depicts&mdash Informationen zum Autor NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH is the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black. Originally from Spring Valley, New York, he graduated from SUNY Albany and went on t...

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Autori Nana Adjei-Brennyah, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Editore Houghton Mifflin
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Tascabile
Pubblicazione 31.10.2018
 
EAN 9781328911247
ISBN 978-1-328-91124-7
Dimensioni 137 mm x 205 mm x 15 mm
Categorie Narrativa > Romanzi

FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Satire, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: LITERATURE, LITERATURE: AFRICAN AMERICAN, FICTION: African American & Black / General

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