Furnace Creek: Eyewear Publishing
Autor JOSEPH ALLEN BOONEen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mar 2023
Winner, Honorable Mention in General Fiction, Eric Hoffer Awards (2023)
Winner, Foreward's Indie Book of the Year in LGBGT+ Fiction (2023)
Editor's Pick, Publishers Weekly (December 5, 2022)
This moving novel teases us with the question of what Dickens' Pip might have been like if he had grown up in the American South of the 1960s and 1970s and faced the explosive social issues that galvanized the world in those decades: racial injustice, a war abroad, women's and gay rights, class struggle. A guilty encounter with an escaped felon, a summer spent working for an eccentric man with a mysterious past, conflicted erotic feelings for his employer's niece and nephew―these events set the stage for a journey of sexual and moral discovery that takes Newt Seward to New England, Rome, and Paris―all before returning home to confront his life's many expectations and surprises. Furnace Creek effortlessly combines elements of coming-of-age story, novel of erotic discovery, Southern Gothic fiction, and detection-mystery plot. Written with a natural storyteller's gift of imagination, it leaps the frame of Dickens' masterpiece to capture the emotional intensity of characters whose lives will haunt the reader beyond the page.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781915406118
ISBN-10: 1915406110
Pagini: 438
Dimensiuni: 145 x 209 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Black Spring Press
Colecția Black Spring Press
Seria Eyewear Publishing
ISBN-10: 1915406110
Pagini: 438
Dimensiuni: 145 x 209 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Black Spring Press
Colecția Black Spring Press
Seria Eyewear Publishing
Notă biografică
Joseph Allen Boone is the author of three works of non- fiction and the libretto for a musical based on Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man, and a short story collection, Conditions of Precarity, is forthcoming from Eyewear in the near future. Among various writing awards, FURNACE CREEK (Black Springs Press, 2021) was the only novel shortlisted for the 2019 international Beverly Prize. Boone is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Humanities Center, Stanford Humanities Center, Rockefeller-Bellagio Center, the Bogliasco Foundation, the American Council for Learned Societies, and the Huntington Library. A resident of Los Angeles, California, Boone is an endowed professor of English at the University of Southern California.
Recenzii
“Stretching from the American South to the Ivy League and the dream of Rome and Paris, Furnace Creek is a sweeping, Gothic tale of sex, race, and a young man's education. I was totally entertained and, most of all, seduced.”
“A funny, moving, and true rendition of everybody's story: surviving our childhoods, which can be uniquely challenging if you're Southern, and queer. Boone is a natural novelist, and Furnace Creek is a genuine accomplishment.”
“Furnace Creek has everything brilliant novels have: characters we love, a story that touches the reader deeply, and a haunting quality that reaches beyond the pages, informing our current lives. It is also wickedly funny, that rare novel full of charming humor and sharp cultural commentary at every turn.”
“A playful reimagining of Dickens, a tautly plotted thriller, a beautifully observed coming of age story: Furnace Creek is a novel that is as hard to categorize as it is to put down. It seizes you in the opening chapters and refuses to let you go.”
“Joseph Boone has written a page-turning novel, a spirited American retelling of an English classic. The American South is our own Dickensian England, and Boone brings both worlds vividly alive with his ebullient prose. A joyously ambitious debut!”
"The love of literature hinges not just on beautiful writing but an awareness that the stories of the past have a lot to teach us about the present. By transporting Dickens into our era, Boone demonstrates just that."
"No single review could possibly encompass the abundance of lives and life underway in Furnace Creek—nor should anyone wish it to. That's why we read books like this one: to get happily lost in their capacious, prodigious pages. It's a satisfyingly substantial libation built upon a potent spirit."
"Dickens for the Civil Rights-Era South"
“With lyric beauty, welcome frankness, and rare emotional urgency, Boone reimagines Dickens's Great Expectations in the American South, in the tumultuous 1960s, with a queer perspective and countless new and illuminating approaches. Boone's fresh vision of the tale [is] always true to the realities of class, race, and sexuality of its milieu. Exquisite prose and a storyteller's elan keep the story going.”
"Boone's prose is lyrical and inventive, merging Dickensian with and texture with a dash of Southern gothic. Just the sort of novel with which bibliophiles will be happy to linger. A gueer bildungsroman in a classic, stylish package."
“A funny, moving, and true rendition of everybody's story: surviving our childhoods, which can be uniquely challenging if you're Southern, and queer. Boone is a natural novelist, and Furnace Creek is a genuine accomplishment.”
“Furnace Creek has everything brilliant novels have: characters we love, a story that touches the reader deeply, and a haunting quality that reaches beyond the pages, informing our current lives. It is also wickedly funny, that rare novel full of charming humor and sharp cultural commentary at every turn.”
“A playful reimagining of Dickens, a tautly plotted thriller, a beautifully observed coming of age story: Furnace Creek is a novel that is as hard to categorize as it is to put down. It seizes you in the opening chapters and refuses to let you go.”
“Joseph Boone has written a page-turning novel, a spirited American retelling of an English classic. The American South is our own Dickensian England, and Boone brings both worlds vividly alive with his ebullient prose. A joyously ambitious debut!”
"The love of literature hinges not just on beautiful writing but an awareness that the stories of the past have a lot to teach us about the present. By transporting Dickens into our era, Boone demonstrates just that."
"No single review could possibly encompass the abundance of lives and life underway in Furnace Creek—nor should anyone wish it to. That's why we read books like this one: to get happily lost in their capacious, prodigious pages. It's a satisfyingly substantial libation built upon a potent spirit."
"Dickens for the Civil Rights-Era South"
“With lyric beauty, welcome frankness, and rare emotional urgency, Boone reimagines Dickens's Great Expectations in the American South, in the tumultuous 1960s, with a queer perspective and countless new and illuminating approaches. Boone's fresh vision of the tale [is] always true to the realities of class, race, and sexuality of its milieu. Exquisite prose and a storyteller's elan keep the story going.”
"Boone's prose is lyrical and inventive, merging Dickensian with and texture with a dash of Southern gothic. Just the sort of novel with which bibliophiles will be happy to linger. A gueer bildungsroman in a classic, stylish package."