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Heather, the Totality de Matthew Weiner

Heather, the Totality

Autor Matthew Weiner
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 iun 2018

Simțim, încă de la primele pagini, o tensiune rece, aproape clinică, ce se instalează sub suprafața lucioasă a unei vieți privilegiate. Matthew Weiner reușește în debutul său literar să distileze atmosfera de neliniște pe care a stăpânit-o magistral în televiziune, mutând însă reflectorul din birourile anilor '60 în apartamentele luxoase din Manhattan-ul contemporan. Putem afirma că romanul nu este doar o cronică de familie, ci un studiu despre vulnerabilitatea pe care o aduce obsesia pentru statut și protecție. Familia Breakstone a construit o fortăreață în jurul fiicei lor, Heather, însă această barieră devine fragilă în momentul în care un personaj din afara bulei lor de siguranță pătrunde în spațiul lor intim. Stilul este tăios, cu o economie de mijloace care amplifică senzația de pericol iminent. Amintește de The Privileges de Jonathan Dee prin modul în care analizează viața înaltei societăți din New York, dar se diferențiază prin tonul mult mai sumbru, aproape de thriller psihologic, unde amenințarea nu este doar socială, ci fizică și imprevizibilă. Observăm o structură narativă comprimată, unde fiecare detaliu despre renovările din penthouse sau despre trecutul personajelor contribuie la o stare de asediu psihic. Este o lectură despre ciocnirea dintre două lumi care nu ar fi trebuit să se întâlnească niciodată, scrisă cu o precizie care nu lasă loc de digresiuni inutile.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780316435321
ISBN-10: 0316435325
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 139 x 208 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care caută o analiză acidă a privilegiului modern. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă tăioasă asupra modului în care frica poate dărâma zidurile bogăției. Este un roman scurt, ideal pentru o singură sesiune de lectură, oferind o experiență intensă și neliniștitoare, specifică autorului Matthew Weiner.

Despre autor

Matthew Weiner, născut în Los Angeles, este o figură centrală a televiziunii americane contemporane, fiind creatorul, producătorul executiv și scenaristul celebrului serial „Mad Men”. Experiența sa narativă s-a format și prin contribuții majore la serialul „The Sopranos”, unde a activat ca scenarist și producător. În Heather, The Totality, Weiner își demonstrează capacitatea de a transfera precizia dialogului și construcția atmosferică din scenariu în literatura de ficțiune, păstrând aceeași aplecare spre analiza psihologică a personajelor aflate sub presiune socială.

Descriere scurtă

The explosive debut novel - about family, power and privilege - from the creator of the award-winning Mad Men.

Named a Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year

 Mark and Karen Breakstone have constructed the idyllic life of wealth and status they always wanted, made complete by their beautiful and extraordinary daughter Heather. But they are still not quite at the top. When the new owners of the penthouse above them begin construction, an unstable stranger penetrates the security of their comfortable lives and threatens to destroy everything they've created.

Notă biografică

Acclaimed storyteller Matthew Weiner has been entertaining audiences for two decades, most recently as writer, creator, executive producer, and director of Mad Men, one of television's most honored series. He also worked as a writer and executive producer on The Sopranos, along with several comedy series, and made his feature film debut in 2014. Weiner studied at Wesleyan University and earned his MFA from the University of Southern California.

Recenzii

"Weiner deftly exposes the weirdness of mundane lifechanges" and "chillingly reminds us of how unstable the ground is that we takefor granted beneath our feet."—Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air
"creepy,unsettling...and queasily seductive"—USA Today
"Beyond its chillingportrait of America's social and economic divide, the novel raises a number ofthorny questions... Weiner writes with maximum economy"—Associated Press
"You'll devour it in a single, heart-racing sitting."—People
"slim but it packs a substantial punch"—Seattle Review of Books
"The Matthew Weiner of Mad Men makes himself known in Heather viasharp and complex character insights...the novel transcends the status of a meresleek, domestic thriller, and contributes meaningfully, unexpectedly, toresistance."—The Millions
"A sharp, slim page-turner, though much simmers underneath the surfaceof Weiner's deft prose."—BookPage
"Weiner's award-winning writing and producing of such renowned television shows as The Sopranos and Mad Men is neatly evident in his quietly thrilling debut novel. Written in descriptive and illuminating scene-like snippets-though nearly free of dialogue-this one-sitting read concerns the eerily shared delusions of a privileged Manhattan family and a man who stalks the periphery of their lives...The sense of doom is sharply rendered, characters are well developed, and their motivations are finely wrought. Readers will hope for more book-form fiction from Weiner."—Booklist
"A sharp, character-driven debut novel that examines class and parentingwith equal power,"—B&N Reads
"Weiner has created a very contemporary and creepylittle novel about a teenaged girl and a fervent admirer. Rife withobservations about Manhattan's elite, Heather is both unsettling andsatisfying."—Literary Hub
"viscerally real andtotally chilling, this is a fantastic book."—Bookreporter
"A page-turning thriller...we highly recommend readingit in one sitting so you can soak it all in."—Popsugar
"Fans of Mad Men will find familiar themes lurking in the showcreator's debut novel."—Harper's Bazaar
"Heather, The Totality is a tour de force of control, tone and razor-slash insight. In its clear-eyed anatomist's gaze and its remarkable combination of empathy and pitilessness I hear echoes of Flaubert and Richard Yates, with a deeply twisted twist of Muriel Spark at her darkest. I could not put it down."
—Michael Chabon, author of Moonglow
"Short and rapier-sharp, Matthew Weiner's HEATHER, THE TOTALITY compels and unnerves in equal measure. Like the great Patricia Highsmith, Weiner renders the disturbing not just plausible but exquisitely, agonizingly inevitable. A tour de force."—Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl
"This short novel of upper-crust anomie and class-divide obsession is a scorcher! It's the classic noir construction: the short walk off the long ledge and the plummet to an indifferent Hell. Matthew Weiner demonically delivers the goods! Read this book in one gasping breath."—James Ellroy, author of L.A. Confidential and Perfidia
"Heather, The Totality gripped me at once and had me spellbound. It was partly the absolute certainty of the world he was describing, the sense that beyond these brilliantly chosen details there was a wealth of similarly truthful social and psychological perception unstated. And partly the slightly fastidious form, the sound of a voice a hair's breadth away from affectation, but so firmly where it was that there was no question of turning away and not hearing what was going to come next. Then there was the ice-cold mercilessness, of a kind that reminded me (oddly, I suppose, but there it was) of Evelyn Waugh."—Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials
"slender butsearingly intense".—New York Journal of Book
"An exciting debut novel with a fast-paced plot and plenty of suspense"—Vogue
"sure to draw infans of his character-driven work...Leave it to Weiner to derail apicture-perfect family."—W Magazine
"A lacerating novella."—O, The Oprah Magazine
"Brief but with a big punch...Weiner paints a detailed, achingly insightful picture."—Elle
"Mad Men creator Weiner crafts a finely honed tale that highlights class conflict." —Publisher's Weekly
"A page-turning thriller."—Pop Sugar
"I cringed and shuddered my way through this short, daring novel to its terrible inevitable end. Each neat, measured paragraph carpaccios its characters to get to the book's heart - one of Boschian self-cannibalising isolation. A stunning novel. Heather, The Totality blew me away."—Nick Cave
"A miraculous and fearless novel, Heather is unprecedented. As well as being smart, sharp and readable, it proves there are still fresh and exciting ways to write fiction."—MJ Hyland, author of Carry Me Down
"Chilling and poised, I loved it"—Maggie O'Farrell, author of This Must Be the Place

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The explosive debut novel - about family, power and privilege - from the creator of the award-winning Mad Men