ISBN: 9780374605087
Editorial: MCD x FSG Originals
Autor: Williams, Missouri
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 240
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: About the AuthorMissouri Williams is a writer and editor who lives in London. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The Baffler, The Believer, Granta, and Five Dials. The Doloriad is her first book."[The Doloriad] just might be what your rotten little heart deserves." ―J. Robert Lennon, The New York Times Book ReviewOne of Vulture's Best Books of 2022 (So Far). Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by i-D, Cosmopolitan, Thrillist, Lit Reactor, and Lit Hub, and one of Nylon's March 2022 Books to Add to Your Reading ListMacabre, provocative, depraved, and unforgettable, The Doloriad marks the debut of Missouri Williams, a terrifyingly original new voiceIn the wake of a mysterious environmental cataclysm that has wiped out the rest of humankind, the Matriarch, her brother, and the family descended from their incest cling to existence on the edges of a deserted city. The Matriarch, ruling with fear and force, dreams of starting humanity over again, though her children are not so certain. Together the family scavenges supplies and attempts to cultivate the poisoned earth. For entertainment, they watch old VHS tapes of a TV show in which a problem-solving medieval saint faces down a sequence of logical and ethical dilemmas. But one day the Matriarch dreams of another group of survivors and sends away one of her daughters, the legless Dolores, as a marriage offering. When Dolores returns the next day, her reappearance triggers the breakdown of the Matriarch’s fragile order, and the control she wields over their sprawling family begins to weaken.Told in extraordinary, intricate prose that moves with a life of its own, and at times striking with the power of physical force, Missouri Williams’s debut novel is a blazingly original document of depravity and salvation. Gothic and strange, moving and disquieting, and often hilarious, The Doloriad stares down, with narrowed eyes, humanity’s unbreakable commitment to life.Review"Distinctive, stylish and maddening . . . Williams’s prose is fantastically elaborate, presenting itself in long, bricklike blocks of text. At its best, it reads as Faulknerian, sinuous and formal . . . [The Doloriad] just might be what your rotten little heart deserves." ―J. Robert Lennon, The New York Times Book Review"An apocalypse narrative of biblical proportions . . . In gorgeous, painful language that evanesces between the perspectives of the novel’s main characters, Williams’s novel boldly engages philosophical and theological questions about humanity’s will to live and right to survive and offers a shimmering glimpse of a world beyond our own." ―Nolan Kelly, Bookforum"Williams’s book bears resemblances to William Faulkner in its conceit, in its wending sentences, and in its images . . . what could be more Gothic, more suffocating and cloistered, than an apocalypse that left behind only you and your most overbearing family members?" ―Maddie Crum, Vulture"A striking dystopian debut . . . The tension between old and new ways of being unfolds like a kind of gothic Greek tragedy. The prose brilliantly suggests its world, full of sucking mud and tumbledown ruins: it is repellent but also sumptuous, shifting thickly through its main characters’ perspectives to create a dreamlike yet materially vivid world." ―Jessie Lethaby, The Sunday Times (UK)"A brilliant, unsettling, gothic take on a Greek tragedy." ―i-D"Gothic, strange, provocative, but also incredibly moving and absolutely unforgettable, a powerful debut from a truly original new voice." ―Cosmopolitan (UK)"An almost grotesque superabundance of style, sentences that sprawl and swell along with [Williams's] characters . . . until you, the reader, can’t take it anymore, the turgidity of both form and forms, and so give up halfway through, throw the book away, and run screaming into the sanity of sunshine, away from the hebetude and decrepitude of indulgence, of too much―yet never enough―disgusting life." ―Jason Kehe,
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- Envío: Desde EE. UU.
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