Name: The Seas von Samantha Hunt
SKU: 9781849013932
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The Seas Zusammenfassung

The Seas Samantha Hunt

The narrator of The Seas lives in a tiny, remote, alcoholic, cruel seaside town. An occasional chambermaid, granddaughter to a typesetter, and daughter to a dead man, awkward and brave, wayward and willful, she is in love (unrequited) with an Iraq War veteran thirteen years her senior. She is convinced that she is a mermaid. What she does to ease the pain of growing up lands her in prison. What she does to get out is the stuff of legend. In the words of writer Michelle Tea, The Seas is creepy and poetic, subversive and strangely funny, [and] a phenomenal piece of literature.

Praise for The Invention of Everything Else:

'A beguiling mix of love, death, pigeons and time travel...a gem of a story about the power of imagination' Marie Claire

'Samantha Hunt is an exciting find - a fresh original voice...a fantastical love story...literary gold... It should appeal to fans of The Time Traveller's Wife and Donna Tartt' Sunday Express

'Intelligent, compassionate...beautifully conjured' Daily Telegraph

The Seas Bewertungen

One of the most distinctive and unforgettable voices I have read in years. This book will linger . . . in your head for a good long time. -- Dave Eggers
An aqueous affair, flooded with water themes . . . Hunt's writing is free of affectation and carries surprising conviction. * The New Yorker *
[An] entrancing first novel. * San Francisco Chronicle. *
Hunt presents a convincing portrayal of youthful confusion...Such gray, Chekhovian moments mark Hunt as a writer to watch. * Time Out New York *
Urgently real and magically unreal...a breathy, wonderful holler of a novel, deeply lodged in the ocean's merciless blue. * The Village Voice *
[With] language at once poetic and precise...The result is a ravishing, utterly unique read. * Elle.com *
Samantha Hunt is an exciting find - a fresh original voice ... a fantastical love story ... literary gold ... It should appeal to fans of The Time Traveller's Wife and Donna Tartt. * Sunday Express *
Intelligent, compassionate ... beautifully conjured. * Daily Telegraph *
Characters are beautifully drawn and the world Hunt creates is quite haunting. * TheBookbag.co.uk *
Keeps the reader consistently surprised and enthralled * Books Quarterly *
A gripping tale * Observer *
Clever and intense. * Guardian *
A fantastical coming of age story. * Irish Times *

Über Samantha Hunt

Samantha Hunt was born in 1971 in Pound Ridge, New York. The Seas is her debut novel - it won the National Book Foundation's award for writers under 35 and was voted one of the Top 27 Books of 2004 by the Voice Literary Supplement. She is also the author of The Invention of Everything Else which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Esquire, A Public Space, Cabinet, Tin House, Seed Magazine, New York Magazine, Blind Spot, Harper's Bazaar, and The Believer. Her work has been translated into seven languages. Samantha Hunt teaches writing at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR001855454

ISBN 13

9781849013932

ISBN 10

1849013934

Titel

The Seas Samantha Hunt

Autor

Samantha Hunt

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Little, Brown Book Group

Datum

20100722

Anzahl der Seiten

208

Preise

N/A

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