Dan Chaon Knihy

Největší potíž má u brilantního románu amerického autora z Clevelandu v Ohiu kritika s žánrovým zařazením - hranice mezi pulp fiction a vysokou literaturou je velmi úzká. Od počátku je jasné, že tři nesourodé vyprávěcí roviny budou do sebe nějak zapadat. V jedné sledujeme příběh Milese Cheshirea, který nepřestává ani po letech hledat svého bratra-dvojče -­­ ten za sebou nechává tajemné, pracně a podivně konstruované stopy a svého bratra vodí z jednoho neuvěřitelného místa na druhé. Ve druhé linii sledujeme příběh vyprávěný očima studentky střední školy, znuděné životem na malém městě, která uteče se svým charismatickým profesorem matematiky do opuštěného motelu kdesi v Nebrasce a která začne tušit, že všechno není, jak se zdálo být. Třetí vypravěč začíná šokující akcí: s uříznutou paží položenou v autě mezi nimi ho ve tři ráno veze jeho otec do nemocnice.

With his critically acclaimed "Among the Missing" and "Fitting Ends," award-winning author Dan Chaon proved himself a master of the short story form. He is a writer, observes the "Chicago Tribune," who can "convincingly squeeze whole lives into a mere twenty pages or so." Now Chaon marshals his notable talents in his much-anticipated debut novel. "You Remind Me of Me" begins with a series of separate incidents: In 1977, a little boy is savagely attacked by his mother's pet Doberman; in 1997 another little boy disappears from his grandmother's backyard on a sunny summer morning; in 1966, a pregnant teenager admits herself to a maternity home, with the intention of giving her child up for adoption; in 1991, a young man drifts toward a career as a drug dealer, even as he hopes for something better. With penetrating insight and a deep devotion to his characters, Dan Chaon" "explores the secret connections that irrevocably link them. In the process he examines questions of identity, fate, and circumstance: Why do we become the people that we become? How do we end up stuck in lives that we never wanted? And can we change the course of what seems inevitable? In language that is both unflinching and exquisite, Chaon moves deftly between the past and the present in the small-town prairie Midwest and shows us the extraordinary lives of "ordinary" people.

"A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a bighearted mercenary"--

"A psychologist in suburban Cleveland, Dustin is drifting through his forties when he hears the news: his adopted brother Rusty is being released from prison. Thirty years ago, Rusty received a life sentence for the massacre of Dustin's parents, aunt, and uncle. The trial came to epitomize the 1980s hysteria over Satanic cults; despite the lack of physical evidence, the jury believed the outlandish accusations Dustin and his cousin made against Rusty. Now, after DNA analysis has overturned the conviction, Dustin braces for a reckoning"--Dust jacket flap.

Holland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins. They are close, close enough, almost, to read each other’s thoughts, but they couldn’t be more different. Holland is bold and mischievous, a bad influence, while Niles is kind and eager to please, the sort of boy who makes parents proud. The Perrys live in the bucolic New England town their family settled centuries ago, and as it happens, the extended clan has gathered at its ancestral farm this summer to mourn the death of the twins’ father in a most unfortunate accident. Mrs. Perry still hasn’t recovered from the shock of her husband’s gruesome end and stays sequestered in her room, leaving her sons to roam free. As the summer goes on, though, and Holland’s pranks become increasingly sinister, Niles finds he can no longer make excuses for his brother’s actions. Thomas Tryon’s best-selling novel about a homegrown monster is an eerie examination of the darkness that dwells within everyone. It is a landmark of psychological horror that is a worthy descendent of the books of James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shirley Jackson, and Patricia Highsmith.

L'idea di questa antologia, pubblicata come numero unico della rivista di Dave Eggers "McSweeney's", nasce dalla volontà del curatore, Michael Chabon, di ridare dignità e visibilità alle short stories di avventure in cui un tempo si cimentavano autori quali Balzac, Conrad, Henry James ed Edith Wharton. Una raccolta in cui il racconto breve riacquista la sua dimensione più classica, tradizionale e avvincente: quella di narrarre storie avventurose e piene di thrilling. Gli autori chiamati a misurarsi con questa sfida sono tra i più rappresentativi della letteratura angloamericana da Stephen King a Rick Moody, da Michael Crichton a Neil Gaiman, da Elmore Leonard a Nick Hornby per finire con Dave Heggers e Harlan Ellison.

Om de waarheid te verdoezelen over de concentratiekampen moet een groep intellectuele joden de brieven beantwoorden die gevangenen vlak voor hun dood gedwongen aan familieleden hebben geschreven.

Gorostarzu ne fétichise pas l'Amérique profonde et ne fuit pas dans les icônes du passé, la fluidité de la route nous suggère qu'il s'agit d'un simple passage, d'un état transitoire où le passé et le présent opèrent énigmatiquement.Le MondePrès de 200 photographies de l'Amérique d'aujourd'hui, un road-trip qui nous emmène de New York à la Californie, en passant par le Sud, Chicago, l'Arizona, le Nouveau-Mexique, le Texas, le Nebraska, le Montana ou le Colorado. Une Amérique éternelle, celle d'Edward Hopper et de John Ford, celle de Wim Wenders et de Gus Van Sant.Pour accompagner son travail photographique, Patricia de Gorostarzu a choisi les nouvelles de cinq jeunes auteurs américains, qui entrent en résonance particulière avec ses tirages. Scott Wolven, Dan Chaon, Brady Udall, Benjamin Percy, et Richard Lange. La littérature et la photographie réunies donnent une dimension particulière à cette Amérique que Patricia de Gorostarzu saisit à merveille.