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The Gin Closet de Leslie Jamison

The Gin Closet

Autor Leslie Jamison
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mai 2011
AS A YOUNG WOMAN, Tilly flees home for the hollow underworld of Nevada, looking for pure souls and finding nothing but bad habits. One day, after Tilly has spent nearly thirty years without a family, drinking herself to the brink of death, her niece Stella who has been leading her own life of empty promise in New York City arrives on the doorstep of Tilly s desert trailer. "The Gin Closet "unravels the strange and powerful intimacy that forms between them. With an uncanny ear for dialogue and a witty, unflinching candor about sex, love, and power, Leslie Jamison reminds us that no matter how unexpected its turns, the life we re given is all we have: the cruelties that unhinge us, the beauties that clarify us, the addictions that deform us, those fleeting possibilities of grace that fade as quickly as they come. "The Gin Closet "marks the debut of a stunning new talent in fiction."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781439153239
ISBN-10: 143915323X
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 139 x 211 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster

Recenzii

"Devastating...astonishing...a story of love and ruin in the American West...it is a book that finds beauty in dysfunction- and, in doing so, gives us one of the truest and most devastating depictions of alcoholism to be had in some time...exquisite prose...droll...a tour de force." —Karen Brady, "Buffalo News"
Life is raw in Leslie Jamison s astonishing first novel, a story of love and ruin in the American West it is a book that finds beauty in dysfunction and, in doing so, gives us one of the truest and most devastating depictions of alcoholism to be had in some time "The Gin Closet" is nothing short of a tour de force.
" Buffalo News
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Keenly felt...Redemption, finds Jamison, like love, is rarely pure or unambiguous.
"Vogue"

Descriere

AS A YOUNG WOMAN, Tilly flees home for the hollow underworld of Nevada, looking for pure souls and finding nothing but bad habits. One day, after Tilly has spent nearly thirty years without a family, drinking herself to the brink of death, her niece Stella--who has been leading her own life of empty promise in New York City--arrives on the doorstep of Tilly's desert trailer. "The Gin Closet "unravels the strange and powerful intimacy that forms between them. With an uncanny ear for dialogue and a witty, unflinching candor about sex, love, and power, Leslie Jamison reminds us that no matter how unexpected its turns, the life we're given is all we have: the cruelties that unhinge us, the beauties that clarify us, the addictions that deform us, those fleeting possibilities of grace that fade as quickly as they come. "The Gin Closet "marks the debut of a stunning new talent in fiction.

Notă biografică

Leslie Jamison was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in Los Angeles. She has worked as a baker, an office temp, an innkeeper, a tutor, and a medical actor. A graduate of Harvard College and the Iowa’s Workshop, she is the author of the essay collection The Empathy Exams, a New York Times bestseller, and the novel The Gin Closet, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and the Oxford American, among others, and she is a columnist for the New York Times Book Review. She teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with her family.