I Will Be Complete: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Autor Glen David Golden Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 iun 2019
Imaginați-vă un băiat de doisprezece ani, singur pe străzile din San Francisco la miezul nopții, încercând să navigheze printr-o lume a adulților guvernată de petreceri cu droguri și escroci carismatici. Aceasta nu este o scenă dintr-unul dintre romanele sale de ficțiune istorică, ci realitatea brută a lui Glen David Gold. Importanța acestei mărturii rezidă în modul în care Gold reușește să transforme o copilărie bizară și solitară într-o analiză universală despre reziliență și nevoia de a ne defini identitatea dincolo de eșecurile părinților noștri.
Descoperim aici o vulnerabilitate rară în I Will Be Complete. Dacă în Carter Beats the Devil autorul explora lumea magiei și a iluziilor de la începutul secolului XX, iar în Sunnyside se concentra pe zorii cinematografiei și pe ambiția faimei, în acest volum de memorii el renunță la decorurile spectaculoase pentru a investiga „magia” supraviețuirii personale. Stilul său rămâne la fel de precis și cinematic, însă tonul este acum unul de o onestitate tăioasă, alternând între umor sec și o tristețe profundă.
Ca și Half a Life de Jill Ciment, această biografie transformă documentele memoriei într-o narațiune captivantă despre dezintegrarea familială și fragilitatea clasei de mijloc. Notăm cu interes cum Gold nu își judecă mama cu asprime, ci documentează cu o curiozitate aproape clinică încercările ei deșănțate de a se reinventa. Ritmul este alert, specific unui scriitor care stăpânește arta suspansului, dar miza este mult mai intimă: eliberarea de sub povara de a fi salvatorul propriului părinte pentru a deveni, în sfârșit, un adult complet.
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ISBN-13: 9781101912454
ISBN-10: 1101912456
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 132 x 203 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Random House
Colecția Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Seria Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10: 1101912456
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 132 x 203 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Random House
Colecția Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Despre autor
Glen David Gold este un scriitor american apreciat, deținător al unui master în scriere creativă de la University of California, Irvine. A devenit cunoscut la nivel internațional odată cu publicarea romanului Carter Beats the Devil în 2001, care a fost tradus în 14 limbi și nominalizat la Guardian First Book Award. Experiența sa diversă include scrierea de scenarii pentru film și televiziune, precum și eseuri publicate în New York Times Magazine și McSweeney's. Stilul său literar este recunoscut pentru capacitatea de a îmbina rigoarea istorică cu o profunzime emoțională remarcabilă.
Notă biografică
GLEN DAVID GOLD is the author of Sunnyside and Carter Beats the Devil, which has been translated into fourteen languages. His short stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney's, Playboy, and The New York Times Magazine. He lives in Los Angeles.
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'I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I've read in years. It's likely the best memoir published in years.' Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life and Chang and Eng
From the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a shocking, big-hearted memoir about his bizarre upbringing in California in the 1970s and how he survived it.
Glen David Gold grew up rich on the beaches of 1970s California, until his father lost a fortune and his parents divorced when he was ten.
Glen and his English mother moved to San Francisco, where she was fleeced by a series of charming con men and turned increasingly wayward. When he was twelve, she took off for New York without telling him, leaving him to fend for himself. On midnight streets and at drug-fuelled parties, wise-cracking his way through an alarming adult world, Glen watched his mother's countless, wild attempts to reinvent herself.
In this exceptional memoir, acclaimed novelist Glen David Gold captures his bizarre, lonely upbringing and how it shaped him as an adult with stunning insight and unsparing candour. Shocking, mordantly funny and achingly affecting, he tells an unforgettable story of the years he spent trying to rescue his mother - and his ultimate realisation that only by breaking free could he ever hope to be complete.
'The prose is crystalline, hard as real diamonds, flashing, revealing. The story is simple, just a boy and his mother's long disintegration, but the journey is darkly complicated, heartbreaking, beautiful as hell.' Mark Childress, author of Crazy in Alabama
'I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I've read in years. It's likely the best memoir published in years.' Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life and Chang and Eng
From the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a shocking, big-hearted memoir about his bizarre upbringing in California in the 1970s and how he survived it.
Glen David Gold grew up rich on the beaches of 1970s California, until his father lost a fortune and his parents divorced when he was ten.
Glen and his English mother moved to San Francisco, where she was fleeced by a series of charming con men and turned increasingly wayward. When he was twelve, she took off for New York without telling him, leaving him to fend for himself. On midnight streets and at drug-fuelled parties, wise-cracking his way through an alarming adult world, Glen watched his mother's countless, wild attempts to reinvent herself.
In this exceptional memoir, acclaimed novelist Glen David Gold captures his bizarre, lonely upbringing and how it shaped him as an adult with stunning insight and unsparing candour. Shocking, mordantly funny and achingly affecting, he tells an unforgettable story of the years he spent trying to rescue his mother - and his ultimate realisation that only by breaking free could he ever hope to be complete.
'The prose is crystalline, hard as real diamonds, flashing, revealing. The story is simple, just a boy and his mother's long disintegration, but the journey is darkly complicated, heartbreaking, beautiful as hell.' Mark Childress, author of Crazy in Alabama
Recenzii
'Equally subtle and shocking, as clear-eyed about how the sins of the parent are visited on the child as it is generous and loving . . . You cannot read it and remain unchanged.' Irish Times
Raised rich in Southern California before his father lost a fortune and his parents divorced, the novelist Glen David Gold grew up with his increasingly wild and self-destructive mother amid conmen and hedonists in 1970s San Francisco. When he was twelve, his mother took off for New York without telling him: it was time, he decided, to rescue himself.
This is the mesmerising story of how Gold survived his childhood and how it shaped him as an adult, as he forges doomed romances, strives to become a writer and repeatedly to rescue his mother from her catastrophic downward spiral - until he recognises that unless he breaks free he will never be complete.
'Funnier and more hopeful than any story about a child's abandonment and a parent's descent into terrifying chaos has a right to be.' The Times
'Smart, generous and gripping' New Statesman
'A heartbreaking, brave book' Psychologies
'A banquet of vivacity, shrewdness and wit' Washington Post
'Extraordinary . . . an audacious, boundary-shattering work' Los Angeles Times
Dazzling . . . Beautiful and deft, witty and searing, like a playful song with a persistent bass line of unresolved grief. I can't stop thinking about it.
I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I've read in years. It's likely the best memoir published in years. Gold's a novelist and this book reads like the best fiction. It's exciting, beautiful, and clear-eyed in a way most memoirs aren't. Oh, and you'll never forget this charming, intelligent, unique narrator.
We expect the story of a boy and his mother ought to go a certain way. I Will Be Complete goes in ways you'd never expect. The people shatter, reassemble themselves, and shatter all over again. The prose is crystalline, hard as real diamonds, flashing, revealing. The story is simple, just a boy and his mother's long disintegration, but the journey is darkly complicated, heartbreaking, beautiful as hell
Glen David Gold is one of the best storytellers working today. He could write about anything and make it gripping. As it turns out, he also has one hell of a story to tell.
An extraordinary account of an extraordinary life. Gold captures with stunning clarity the emotional chaos he grew up in, and that made him the brilliant writer he is now.
Gold's heartbreaking, brave book deals with his tangled, troubled and troubling relationship with his tempestuous mother and, with insightful introspection, he reveals how it has affected all his other relationships. It's a shocking read, describing a shattered childhood, a complicated adolescence and an adulthood that finds him happy and whole.
Remarkable . . . The product of nine years of work and a lifetime of reflection, the book is full of humour, unflinching reflection and flashes of horror. And it exudes tremendous empathy for his mother . . . Gold's book is funnier and more hopeful than any story about a child's abandonment and a parent's descent into terrifying chaos has a right to be.
One helluva ride . . . in his capable hands even the smallest events seem revelatory. Each dimwitted move his mother makes reads as more bonkers (and undeniably sad) than the last. Each time Gold throws himself into love, it's like Orpheus trying to win back Eurydice. When combined with his deadpan delivery and wry sense of humor, each obstacle to overcome or hoop to jump through takes on a life of its own . . . wickedly intelligent, wildly imaginative (well, in some ways) and everything in between.
Imagine Home Alone with a kid who is part Salvador Dali, part Holden Caulfield . . . an extraordinary book about growing up in California . . . Gold's childhood is much more than merely interesting; it is riveting . . . [his] knack for devastating insights are a marvel to read . . . an audacious, boundary-shattering work that will be talked about for a very long time.
A banquet of vivacity, shrewdness and wit, a soiree of heart-wreck wised up by humour. . . One of the myriad delights of this memoir is its revealing vista onto the ethos of San Francisco in the 70s and Los Angeles in the '80s, deleted worlds in which outrageous characters stagger and strive. . . Gold is a dynamic writer outfitted in wisdom and verve, one whose sentences you'll want to remember.
Gold's sentences reflect the surface of the 1970s perfectly . . . Gold's novelistic handling of these moments is brilliant . . . It's a dazzlingly insightful account how the smart children of emotionally 'shattered' adults attempt to hold themselves and their parents together as they grow . . . Gold says he is finally happy. He's achieved this state by letting go of his need to explain and save his mother. He broke the bonds of her 'terrible love'. And like his muse, Houdini, Gold has made a moving public spectacle of his escape.
Remarkable . . . It's a tale of disintegrating relationships, bad choices, guilt, panic, hurt and weighty sadness so well told, with such lucidity and honesty, it's almost frightening to read . . . Gold wears his wisdom and novelist's powers of observation lightly, remaining beguilingly modest and likeable to the end.
Equally subtle and shocking, as clear-eyed about how the sins of the parent are visited on the child as it is generous and loving . . . It touches lightly on the set pieces, bizarre incidents and bravura descriptions that readers of Gold's bestselling novels, Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, will treasure . . . it never feels over-worked or weighed down with detail . . . You cannot read it and remain unchanged.
An extraordinary memoir . . . It's a tale of a boy's moral and sentimental education, with all the febrile moods and heart-stopping lurches of a Donna Tartt epic . . . There's something painfully sweet about this memoir, particularly the way Gold wills himself to extract something of value from the pain inflicted by irresponsible adults . . . smart, generous, and gripping until the very last pages. It's one of the best books I've read in 2018.
A fine, funny, discomfiting book. And very candid.
Ambitious and brave
Raised rich in Southern California before his father lost a fortune and his parents divorced, the novelist Glen David Gold grew up with his increasingly wild and self-destructive mother amid conmen and hedonists in 1970s San Francisco. When he was twelve, his mother took off for New York without telling him: it was time, he decided, to rescue himself.
This is the mesmerising story of how Gold survived his childhood and how it shaped him as an adult, as he forges doomed romances, strives to become a writer and repeatedly to rescue his mother from her catastrophic downward spiral - until he recognises that unless he breaks free he will never be complete.
'Funnier and more hopeful than any story about a child's abandonment and a parent's descent into terrifying chaos has a right to be.' The Times
'Smart, generous and gripping' New Statesman
'A heartbreaking, brave book' Psychologies
'A banquet of vivacity, shrewdness and wit' Washington Post
'Extraordinary . . . an audacious, boundary-shattering work' Los Angeles Times
Dazzling . . . Beautiful and deft, witty and searing, like a playful song with a persistent bass line of unresolved grief. I can't stop thinking about it.
I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I've read in years. It's likely the best memoir published in years. Gold's a novelist and this book reads like the best fiction. It's exciting, beautiful, and clear-eyed in a way most memoirs aren't. Oh, and you'll never forget this charming, intelligent, unique narrator.
We expect the story of a boy and his mother ought to go a certain way. I Will Be Complete goes in ways you'd never expect. The people shatter, reassemble themselves, and shatter all over again. The prose is crystalline, hard as real diamonds, flashing, revealing. The story is simple, just a boy and his mother's long disintegration, but the journey is darkly complicated, heartbreaking, beautiful as hell
Glen David Gold is one of the best storytellers working today. He could write about anything and make it gripping. As it turns out, he also has one hell of a story to tell.
An extraordinary account of an extraordinary life. Gold captures with stunning clarity the emotional chaos he grew up in, and that made him the brilliant writer he is now.
Gold's heartbreaking, brave book deals with his tangled, troubled and troubling relationship with his tempestuous mother and, with insightful introspection, he reveals how it has affected all his other relationships. It's a shocking read, describing a shattered childhood, a complicated adolescence and an adulthood that finds him happy and whole.
Remarkable . . . The product of nine years of work and a lifetime of reflection, the book is full of humour, unflinching reflection and flashes of horror. And it exudes tremendous empathy for his mother . . . Gold's book is funnier and more hopeful than any story about a child's abandonment and a parent's descent into terrifying chaos has a right to be.
One helluva ride . . . in his capable hands even the smallest events seem revelatory. Each dimwitted move his mother makes reads as more bonkers (and undeniably sad) than the last. Each time Gold throws himself into love, it's like Orpheus trying to win back Eurydice. When combined with his deadpan delivery and wry sense of humor, each obstacle to overcome or hoop to jump through takes on a life of its own . . . wickedly intelligent, wildly imaginative (well, in some ways) and everything in between.
Imagine Home Alone with a kid who is part Salvador Dali, part Holden Caulfield . . . an extraordinary book about growing up in California . . . Gold's childhood is much more than merely interesting; it is riveting . . . [his] knack for devastating insights are a marvel to read . . . an audacious, boundary-shattering work that will be talked about for a very long time.
A banquet of vivacity, shrewdness and wit, a soiree of heart-wreck wised up by humour. . . One of the myriad delights of this memoir is its revealing vista onto the ethos of San Francisco in the 70s and Los Angeles in the '80s, deleted worlds in which outrageous characters stagger and strive. . . Gold is a dynamic writer outfitted in wisdom and verve, one whose sentences you'll want to remember.
Gold's sentences reflect the surface of the 1970s perfectly . . . Gold's novelistic handling of these moments is brilliant . . . It's a dazzlingly insightful account how the smart children of emotionally 'shattered' adults attempt to hold themselves and their parents together as they grow . . . Gold says he is finally happy. He's achieved this state by letting go of his need to explain and save his mother. He broke the bonds of her 'terrible love'. And like his muse, Houdini, Gold has made a moving public spectacle of his escape.
Remarkable . . . It's a tale of disintegrating relationships, bad choices, guilt, panic, hurt and weighty sadness so well told, with such lucidity and honesty, it's almost frightening to read . . . Gold wears his wisdom and novelist's powers of observation lightly, remaining beguilingly modest and likeable to the end.
Equally subtle and shocking, as clear-eyed about how the sins of the parent are visited on the child as it is generous and loving . . . It touches lightly on the set pieces, bizarre incidents and bravura descriptions that readers of Gold's bestselling novels, Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, will treasure . . . it never feels over-worked or weighed down with detail . . . You cannot read it and remain unchanged.
An extraordinary memoir . . . It's a tale of a boy's moral and sentimental education, with all the febrile moods and heart-stopping lurches of a Donna Tartt epic . . . There's something painfully sweet about this memoir, particularly the way Gold wills himself to extract something of value from the pain inflicted by irresponsible adults . . . smart, generous, and gripping until the very last pages. It's one of the best books I've read in 2018.
A fine, funny, discomfiting book. And very candid.
Ambitious and brave