ISBN: 9781501166785
Editorial: Simon & Schuster
Autor: Halliday, Lisa
Año de edición: 2018
N° Paginas: 304
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: Biografía del autor Lisa Halliday grew up in Medfield, Massachusetts and currently lives in Milan, Italy. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review and she is the recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award for Fiction. Asymmetry is her first novel. A TIME and NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR * New York Times Notable Book and Times Critic's Top Book of 2018NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY * Elle * Bustle * Kirkus Reviews * Críticas WINNER OF A 2017 WHITING AWARD // NATIONAL BESTSELLERPraise for Asymmetry"Asymmetry is extraordinary, and the timing of its publication seems almost like a feat of civics. . . .Halliday's prose is so strange and startingly smart that its mere existence seems like commentary on the state of fiction. . . . It's a first novel that reads like the work of an author who has published many books over many years. . . . Halliday has written, somehow all at once, a transgressive roman a clef, a novel of ideas and a politically engaged work of metafiction." --Alice Gregory, The New York Times Book Review "Masterly...As you uncover the points of congruence, so too do you uncover Halliday's beautiful argument about the pleasure and obligations of fiction...It feels as if the issues she has raised -- both explicitly and with the book's canny structure -- have sown seeds that fiction will harvest for years to come." --"The New Vanguard," The New York Times Book Review "Exquisite...For us, the ride is in surrendering to falling down rabbit holes to unknown places. The moment "Asymmetry" reaches its perfect ending, it's all the reader can do to return to the beginning in awe, to discover how Halliday upturned the story again and again." --The Washington Post "A scorchingly intelligent first novel. . . a clever comedy of manners set in Manhattan as well as a slowly unspooling tragedy about an Iraqi-American family, which poses deep questions about free will, fate and freedom, the all-powerful accident of one's birth and how life is alchemized into fiction. . . . [Asymmetry] will make you a better reader, a more active noticer. It hones your senses." --Parul Seghal, The New York Times "A brilliant and complex examination of power dynamics in love and war." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "It's hard to deny, by the novel's end, that Alice/Halliday has pulled off this stunt of transcendence. As with a gymnast who's just stuck a perfect routine, your impulse is to ask her, what's next?" --Christian Lorentzen, New York Magazine "Lisa Halliday's debut novel, Asymmetry, begins with a lopsided affair-a perfect vehicle for a story of inexperience and advantage . . . Alice and Amar may be naive, but Halliday is knowing-about isolation, dissatisfaction and the pain of being human." --Time Magazine "Asymmetry is a debut burnished to a maximum shine by technical prowess, but it offers readers more than just a clever structure: a familiar world gone familiarly mad." --The New Republic "In its subtle and sophisticated fable of literary ambition, and the forms it can take for a young woman writer, Asymmetry is a "masterpiece" in the original sense of the word--a piece of work that an apprentice produces to show that she has mastered her trade. . . . Much more rarely do we hear this story from the young woman's point of view. What's so powerful and interesting about Asymmetry is that Halliday does not exactly undo that silencing; rather, she enacts it, and then explodes it." --The Atlantic "An interesting meditation on creativity, empathy, and the anxiety of influence. . . Asymmetry is a guidebook to being bigger than ourselves." --NPR"Lisa Halliday's striking debut is certainly - as the title implies - a sharp examination of the unequal power dynamic between men and women, innocence and experience, fame and aspiration. . . . asking a dizzying number of questions, many to thrilling effect. That it leaves the reader wondering is a mark of its success." --The Guardian (UK) "In h
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Halliday, Lisa
- Editorial: Simon & Schuster
- N° Paginas: 304
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
