Name: Shy
Price: 25.10 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Max Porter
ISBN: 9781644452295

Type

Physical Book

Author

Max Porter

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Language

English

Pages

136

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

20.1 x 12.7 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN13

9781644452295

Synopsis "Shy"

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you're not alone This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy. You mustn't do that to yourself Shy. You mustn't hurt yourself like that. He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him. Got your special meds, nutcase? He is escaping Last Chance, a home for "very disturbed young men," and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors, his past, and the heavy question of his future. The night is huge and it hurts. In Shy, Max Porter extends the excavation of boyhood that began with Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and continued with Lanny. But here he asks: How does mischievous wonder and anarchic energy curdle into something more disturbing and violent? Shy is a bravura, lyric, music-besotted performance by one of the great writers of his generation. EditBuild

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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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