Chosen by Paul Auster out of the four thousand stories submitted to
his radio programme on National Public Radio, these 180 stories
provide a wonderful portrait of America in the twentieth century. The
requirement for selection was that each of the stories should be true,
and each of the writers should not have been previously published. The
collection that has emerged provides a richly varied and authentic
voice for the American people, whose lives, loves, griefs, regrets,
joys and sense of humour are vividly and honestly recounted
throughout, and adeptly organised by Auster into themed sections. The
section composed of war stories stretches as far back as the Civil
War, still the defining moment in American history; while the sequence
of 'Meditations' conclude the volume with a true and abiding sense of
transcendence.
The resultant anthology is both an enduring hymn to the strange
everyday of contemporary American life and a masterclass in the art of
storytelling.
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ISBN
9780571266784
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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