Name: Lanny
Price: 19.90 EUR
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Author: Max Porter
ISBN: 9781644450208

Type

Physical Book

Author

Max Porter

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18.8 x 13.0 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN13

9781644450208

Synopsis "Lanny "

Longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize An entrancing new novel by the author of the prizewinning Grief Is the Thing with Feathers There's a village an hour from London. It's no different from many others today: one pub, one church, redbrick cottages, some public housing, and a few larger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to the people who live in it, to the land and to the land's past. It also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, a mythical figure local schoolchildren used to draw as green and leafy, choked by tendrils growing out of his mouth, who awakens after a glorious nap. He is listening to this twenty-first-century village, to its symphony of talk: drunken confessions, gossip traded on the street corner, fretful conversations in living rooms. He is listening, intently, for a mischievous, ethereal boy whose parents have recently made the village their home. Lanny. With Lanny, Max Porter extends the potent and magical space he created in Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. This brilliant novel will ensorcell readers with its anarchic energy, with its bewitching tapestry of fabulism and domestic drama. Lanny is a ringing defense of creativity, spirit, and the generative forces that often seem under assault in the contemporary world, and it solidifies Porter's reputation as one of the most daring and sensitive writers of his generation.

Max Porter

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Max Porter (Maxwell Porter) es un escritor británico contemporáneo reconocido por tensionar las fronteras entre novela, poesía y ensayo narrativo. Antes de consolidarse como autor, trabajó durante años como editor literario, experiencia que afinó su oído para la experimentación formal y la precisión emocional. Su escritura se caracteriza por un uso fragmentario del lenguaje, una intensidad lírica poco complaciente y una atención constante al duelo, la pérdida y la infancia como territorios literarios complejos, no sentimentales.

Debutó con El duelo es esa cosa con alas, obra que lo catapultó a la escena internacional y que fue adaptada posteriormente al teatro. Más tarde publicó Lanny, una novela coral de fuerte carga simbólica, y The Death of Francis Bacon, un híbrido entre ficción, biografía y meditación artística. Su trabajo ha sido distinguido con el Dylan Thomas Prize y el reconocimiento como Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, premios que confirmaron que lo suyo no era una moda, sino una voz incómoda y persistente.

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