One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
Autor B. J. Novak Lena Dunhamen Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 3 feb 2014
Ne-a atras atenția, încă de la primele pagini, vocea narativă a lui B. J. Novak — o prezență care reușește să fie simultan ironică, vulnerabilă și profund reflexivă. În One More Thing, autorul transformă situații aparent banale în experimente de gândire spectaculoase. Structura volumului este una fragmentată, un mozaic de narațiuni care variază de la câteva rânduri la zeci de pagini, fiecare fiind construită în jurul unei întrebări esențiale despre condiția umană. Fie că urmărim un băiat care câștigă un premiu uriaș într-o cutie de cereale sau o femeie care încearcă să-l seducă pe Tony Robbins folosind propriile lui tehnici de motivare, volumul păstrează un echilibru fragil între absurd și emoție pură. Ca și Things That Fall from the Sky de Kevin Brockmeier, această colecție explorează anxietățile lumii moderne prin elemente fantastice, dar o face dintr-o perspectivă mult mai ancorată în cultura pop și în ritmul alert al comediei americane contemporane. Dacă în lucrările sale anterioare, precum The Book with No Pictures, Novak explora natura performativă a limbajului pentru copii, aici el rafinează acest mecanism pentru un public adult. Ritmul este electric, iar tonul contemplativ se strecoară neașteptat printre rânduri, lăsând cititorul să descopere, sub stratul de divertisment, o analiză fină a modului în care ne căutăm împlinirea în era digitală. Este o beletristică a ideilor, unde umorul nu servește doar pentru a stârni râsul, ci ca instrument de disecție a speranțelor noastre cele mai intime.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0804164738
Pagini: 6
Dimensiuni: 175 x 155 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: Random House Audio Publishing Group
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Recomandăm One More Thing celor care apreciază proza scurtă inteligentă și surprinzătoare. Este o lectură ideală pentru fanii serialului The Office care doresc să descopere profunzimea literară a lui B. J. Novak. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă proaspătă asupra clișeelor vieții moderne, totul într-un format care invită la reflecție fără a sacrifica nicio secundă plăcerea pură a divertismentului de calitate.
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B.J. Novak's "One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories" is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction.
A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We also meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who might not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; and post-college friends who try to figure out how to host an intervention in the era of Facebook. Along the way, we learn why wearing a red T-shirt every day is the key to finding love, how February got its name, and why the stock market is sometimes just . . . "down."
Finding inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to the icing on carrot cake, "One More Thing" has at its heart the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element that might just make a person complete. Across a dazzling range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, the many pieces in this collection are like nothing else, but they have one thing in common: they share the playful humor, deep heart, sharp eye, inquisitive mind, and altogether electrifying spirit of a writer with a fierce devotion to the entertainment of the reader."
Descriere
A boy wins $100,000 in a box of Frosted Flakes - only to discover that claiming the winnings may unravel his family. An acclaimed ambulance driver seeks the courage to follow his heart and throw it all away to be a singer-songwriter. A school principal unveils a bold plan to permanently abolish arithmetic. A new arrival in heaven, overwhelmed by infinite options, procrastinates over his long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We meet a vengeance-minded hare. We learn why wearing a red T-shirt is the key to finding love; how February got its name; and why the stock market is sometimes just . . . down.
Finding inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to the icing on carrot cake, from the deeply familiar to the intoxicatingly imaginative, ONE MORE THING finds its heart in the most human of phenomena: love, fear, family, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element that might make a person complete. The stories in this collection are like nothing else, but they have one thing in common: they share the playful humour, deep heart, inquisitive mind, and altogether electrifying spirit of a writer with a fierce devotion to the entertainment of the reader.
Recenzii
A teller of funny, skew-whiff tales . . . Novak has, like, totally been compared to David Sedaris and Woody Allen, which is insane but also kinda true
Lively, sweet-natured . . . Novak is best when he reaches beyond a punchline.... My favourite piece, 'Dark Matter'. . . feels profound
One More Thing is very funny . . . Novak adds emotional depth to some well-crafted, often explosive pay-offs
Remarkably good. There's a wildly eclectic range on display, from personal meditations to flights of absurdist whimsy
Brilliant surreal stories, full of unexpected twists and turns
B.J. blew me away. He just keeps kicking short fiction in the rear, making it run ahead clutching its ass, and then he runs up and kicks it some more, and the result is one of the most aggressively, insanely awesome debuts in a while
Everyone knew that B.J. Novak was smart and sexy, but funny, too!? Wow, screw that guy. I haven't laughed at words this hard since I read
ONE MORE THING is a funny and inventive debut collection, infused with a deadpan absurdist wit reminiscent of Woody Allen and Ian Frazier. B.J. Novak's stories are sly and playful, but they can pack a real emotional wallop
Dark and hilarious, like the fudge Grandma used to make during her 'special' period. Deliciously funny!
A funny writer with a great ear, but also a genuine storyteller with an observant eye and finely tuned emotional radar