ISBN: 9781947793835
Editorial: Tin House Books
Autor: BeNantoka
Año de edición: 2020
N° Paginas: 354
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: Críticas Mostly Dead Things is a phenomenal novel about family, taxidermy, and queerness. You'll devour this bizarre, brilliant book.-- "Hello Giggles"Mostly Dead Things is one of the strangest and funniest and most surprising first novels I've ever read. A love letter to Florida and to family, to half-lit swamps and the 7/11, and to the beasts that only pretend to hold their poses inside us. In Kristen Arnett's expert hands, taxidermy becomes a language to capture our species' impossible and contradictory desire to be held and to be free.--Karen Russell, author of SWAMPLANDIA!Mostly Dead Things is very Florida, very gay, and very good... a rock-solid family novel, brightened by its eccentric milieu.-- "Entertainment Weekly"Mostly Dead Things packs messed-up families, scandalous love affairs, art, life, death and the great state of Florida into one delicious, darkly funny package. Kristen Arnett is wickedly talented and a wholly original voice--Jami Attenberg, author of ALL GROWN UPMostly Dead Things suggests, above all else, that love is not something to be conquered, killed, skinned and mounted. It is living, and a verb. What we do for love -- be it build erotic buffalo sculptures in grief-stricken homage, steal peacocks, raise someone else's children, collect roadkill -- is so much more powerful than what we think about it.-- "San Francisco Chronicle"A worthy addition to the new Florida canon: a highly engrossing, extremely promising, sad, and very funny first novel about sex and death.-- "Boston Globe"An ambitious debut writer with extraordinary promise, Arnett brings all of Florida's strangeness to life through the lens of a family snowed under with grief.-- "Kirkus"An incisive and peculiar study of grief. ... Arnett writes about how we have to overcome our first understanding of the world in order to process it as an adult. She uses the language of taxidermy to explore the memories that ripple beneath our longest held beliefs.-- "the Star-Tribune"Arnett depicts the Morton family's struggles with tenderness and humanity, as well as streaks of deliciously black humor. Far more than just a book-length Florida Man story, Mostly Dead Things broke our hearts in the best possible way.-- "Apple Books"Arnett is a talented and original writer, and everybody paying attention to her work will be eagerly awaiting whatever else she has in store.-- "Shelf Awareness, starred review"Arnett possesses all the bravery her characters dream of. There's none of the shyness and self-consciousness of so much American fiction that masks itself as austerity. She writes comic set pieces to make you laugh, sex scenes to turn you on. The action flips from the past to the present, swimming through first love and first grief on a slick of red Kool-Aid and vodka, suntan oil and fruity lip gloss, easy and unforced. This book is my song of the summer.--Parul Sehgal "The New York Times"Hilarious, deeply morbid, and full of heart.-- "BuzzFeed"It's darkly funny, both macabre and irreverent, and its narrator is so real that every time I stopped reading the book, I felt a tiny pull at the back of my mind, as if I'd left a good friend in the middle of a conversation.--Ilana Masad "NPR"It's the kind of book that sneaks up on you, the kind you read until you realize you have to pee or that the light has left the room. Her writing is accessible and feels like reading a thought from your own brain you weren't aware of thinking, tapping into experiences of adulthood and gayness and ongoing that you might think you were the only one to have.-- "Autostraddle"Kristen Arnett has written a portrait of an American family grieving their dead and their living, and lovingly tearing one another to shreds in the process. Too, this is a book about salvaging, about the Mortons' refusal to abandon what remains, to be buoys and co-conspirators for one another's hearts. Mostly Dead Things is a vicious and tender beast, alive with wry humor and the undeniable beauty of the ways
- Idioma: Inglés
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
- Libro impreso y nuevo
