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The Hero of this Book
Taschenbuch von Elizabeth McCracken
Sprache: Englisch

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'A sublime gift' MEG MASON

A taut, ground-breaking new novel about a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother - and about the very nature of writing.

Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book walks across London on a quiet Sunday. The city was a favourite of her mother's, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself recalling all that made her complicated mother extraordinary. Even though the woman, a writer, wants to respect her mother's nearly pathological sense of privacy, she must decide whether making a chronicle of this remarkable life constitutes an act of love or betrayal.

* A New Yorker, Time, Washington Post, Oprah Daily and NPR Book of the Year *

'I absolutely loved it. A moving portrayal of daughterhood...suffused with warmth and love' MEGAN HUNTER, author of The Harpy

'Confirms McCracken as among the finest contemporary chroniclers of everyday life... wonderful' GUARDIAN

'Tender, funny, heartbreaking... a writer who always delights' RUMAAN ALAM, author of Leave the World Behind

'A sublime gift' MEG MASON

A taut, ground-breaking new novel about a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother - and about the very nature of writing.

Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book walks across London on a quiet Sunday. The city was a favourite of her mother's, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself recalling all that made her complicated mother extraordinary. Even though the woman, a writer, wants to respect her mother's nearly pathological sense of privacy, she must decide whether making a chronicle of this remarkable life constitutes an act of love or betrayal.

* A New Yorker, Time, Washington Post, Oprah Daily and NPR Book of the Year *

'I absolutely loved it. A moving portrayal of daughterhood...suffused with warmth and love' MEGAN HUNTER, author of The Harpy

'Confirms McCracken as among the finest contemporary chroniclers of everyday life... wonderful' GUARDIAN

'Tender, funny, heartbreaking... a writer who always delights' RUMAAN ALAM, author of Leave the World Behind

Über den Autor
Elizabeth McCracken is the award-winning author of eight books, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry, The Giant's House (a National Book Award finalist), Niagara Falls All Over Again, the memoir An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imag­ination, Thunderstruck & Other Stories (winner of the 2014 Story Prize, longlisted for the National Book Award), The Souvenir Museum and The Hero of This Book. She has received grants and fellow­ships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and she was chosen as one of Granta's 20 Best American Writers Under 40. She has served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently holds the James Michener Chair for Fic­tion at the University of Texas at Austin.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 192 S.
ISBN-13: 9781529919653
ISBN-10: 1529919657
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McCracken, Elizabeth
Hersteller: Random House UK Ltd
Vintage Books
Maße: 194 x 130 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Elizabeth McCracken
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.11.2023
Gewicht: 0,142 kg
Artikel-ID: 126943535
Über den Autor
Elizabeth McCracken is the award-winning author of eight books, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry, The Giant's House (a National Book Award finalist), Niagara Falls All Over Again, the memoir An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imag­ination, Thunderstruck & Other Stories (winner of the 2014 Story Prize, longlisted for the National Book Award), The Souvenir Museum and The Hero of This Book. She has received grants and fellow­ships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and she was chosen as one of Granta's 20 Best American Writers Under 40. She has served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently holds the James Michener Chair for Fic­tion at the University of Texas at Austin.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 192 S.
ISBN-13: 9781529919653
ISBN-10: 1529919657
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McCracken, Elizabeth
Hersteller: Random House UK Ltd
Vintage Books
Maße: 194 x 130 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Elizabeth McCracken
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.11.2023
Gewicht: 0,142 kg
Artikel-ID: 126943535
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