The Night Always Comes
Autor Willy Vlautinen Limba Engleză Paperback – apr 2022
Observăm în deschiderea acestui roman o imagine a epuizării absolute: Lynette, o femeie de nici treizeci de ani, jonglează cu multiple joburi și un credit dezastruos, totul pentru a ancora simbolic și fizic existența familiei sale de o singură certitudine — casa în care locuiesc. The Night Always Comes nu este doar o cronică a supraviețuirii, ci o odisee frenetică desfășurată pe parcursul a doar patruzeci și opt de ore, în care Portland devine un personaj ostil, transformat de o gentrificare nemiloasă care nu mai lasă loc celor vulnerabili. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Willy Vlautin refuză sentimentalismul, preferând o proză precisă, aproape chirurgicală, pentru a descrie spirala descendentă a unei femei forțate să facă alegeri periculoase atunci când promisiunile materne se destramă. Cei care au parcurs Dream House de Valerie Laken vor fi pregătiți pentru această explorare a modului în care spațiul locativ devine un câmp de luptă pentru identitate și clasă socială, însă acolo unde Laken folosește accente de suspans domestic, Vlautin mizează pe un realism crud, specific literaturii sale despre America marginalizată. Cartea se situează în continuarea temelor explorate în Lean on Pete, unde autorul analiza tot fragilitatea celor lăsați în urmă, dar aici miza este mutată de pe umerii unui adolescent pe umerii unei femei care înțelege că 'Visul American' a devenit, pentru mulți, o promisiune goală. Este un roman polițist atipic, unde crima este însăși structura economică a orașului.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0571361927
Pagini: 214
Dimensiuni: 126 x 195 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: FABER AND FABER LTD
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o proză socială autentică, lipsită de artificii. The Night Always Comes oferă o perspectivă dură asupra crizei locuințelor și a modului în care lăcomia corporatistă strivește destine individuale. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a sacrificiilor pe care le presupune dorința de stabilitate într-o lume care se scumpește accelerat, totul într-un ritm narativ alert, de tip ceas-cu-alarmă.
Despre autor
Willy Vlautin este un scriitor american și muzician, fondator al trupelor Richmond Fontaine și The Delines. Originar din Reno, Nevada, și stabilit în prezent lângă Portland, Oregon, Vlautin și-a construit o carieră literară solidă explorând viețile clasei muncitoare prin romane precum The Motel Life sau Lean on Pete. Stilul său este adesea comparat cu cel al lui Raymond Carver pentru economia limbajului și empatia profundă față de personajele aflate la marginea societății. Lucrările sale, printre care și recentul The Horse, reflectă adesea experiența sa de compozitor, fiind încărcate de o melancolie specifică muzicii country-noir.
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“The trick to writing a great thriller is both simple and very, very difficult: make us care about the person whose life is in jeopardy. I can’t remember the last time I worried myself sick about a fictional character the way I did about Lynette in Willy Vlautin’s terrific, big-hearted new novel The Night Always Comes. You won’t soon forget either her or the fraught world she so courageously navigates.” — Richard Russo, Author of Empire Falls and Chances Are…
“If throwing down roots in a place can change a person for the better, The Night Always Comes asks what happens to people who never get the chance to do it. Vlautin doesn't offer answers, but he does end the book on an optimistic note, suggesting hope is out there somewhere—and, in the meantime, he paints a recognizable, sometimes harrowing portrait of a city in flux.” — Williamette Week
“Willy Vlautin’s The Night Always Comes is a tear-struck revelation—both epic and timely, intimate and clear-eyed. Only Vlautin could cross the harrowing emotional richness of A Woman Under the Influence with the breakneck desperation of the greatest of film noir. Lynette will have you from the first page and put you to the test a hundred times before the last. You’ll finish knowing you’ll never forget her.” — Megan Abbott, Author of Give Me Your Hand and You Will Know Me
"Remarkable, real, and tender, The Night Always Comes is a story of America, of the disenfranchised and the still hopeful, of a world littered with artifacts and so little opportunity. Willy Vlautin's characters blaze with honesty, fighting for their slim chance at the American dream, leaving us to wonder if it was all a charade. An amazing achievement." — Rene Denfeld, Author of The Butterfly Girl and The Child Finder
“I finished reading this novel dripping with admiration for Willy Vlautin and the tough wonder he has brought forth. The Night Always Comes hits the high-water mark; there is skillful and beautiful objectivity to the writing, characters so real that when they bleed you get a few drops on your sleeve, and a story of economic want and desperation and heart.” — Daniel Woodrell, Author of Winter’s Bone and The Maid’s Version
"The story resonates, with characters we come to feel we know and dialogue that is so natural we hear it, not just read it....This is literary art that will keep readers in their seats until the last page."
— Library Journal (starred review)
"He is as far reaching as he is precise. He writes hard, delicate stories about things that are true. His characters cut me so close to the bone, I feel like they peel a layer of skin off me and I walk around after reading Willy Vlautin, more vulnerable, more open than I was before. And all the tougher for it." — Kae Tempest, Author of On Connection
"The Night Always Comes is a masterclass of scope and scale - a nail-biting thriller of everyday survival. Relatable, terrifying, impassioned, and compassionate, Vlautin's latest will elevate you on one page and tear your heart out on the next. A marvelous novel that bleeds real, cuts deep, and offers just the right dose of hope." — Ivy Pochoda, Author of These Girls and Visitation Street
“Emotionally wrenching.… 'You never give up and you've got a good heart, a damaged heart, but a good heart.’ We concur, of course, and race to the end to see if good hearts can maybe, just this once, make a difference. With Vlautin, you never know for sure.” — Booklist (starred review)
“[Vlautin’s] book plays out like a modern noir take on a Tennessee Williams play, its desperate characters harboring old resentments, its hard-luck heroine settling scores throughout a long, bloody night in her hometown of Portland, Oregon…. Vlautin has written a soulful thriller for the age of soulless gentrification.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“This is a fast and worthy read that you may end up devouring in a few sittings — it's that propulsive. " — AARP
“Willy Vlautin is not known for happy endings, but there’s something here that defies the downward pull. In the end, Lynette is pure life force: fierce and canny and blazing through a city that no longer has space for her, and it’s all Portland’s loss. Read it and weep.” — Portland Monthly Magazine
“Vlautin’s sixth novel rewards fans of his slow, careful style in an intense story about gentrification in Portland, Ore.” — Washington Post
“[An] unflinching, humane noir." — Vanity Fair
“Anyone who’s scrambled within the confines of poverty may relate to Lynette’s quest for agency over her own fate. With “The Night Alway Comes,” Vlautin chronicles the downfall of a city. As Lynette’s story illustrates, it’s an undoing that is deeply personal, too.” — New York Times Book Review
“The pressures of poverty give [Vlautin’s book] its vivid unpredictability… The Night Always Comes is a taut, action-packed production with a memorable protagonist who never abandons her sense of moral truth amid the Darwinian scramble for cash.” — Wall Street Journal
[Vlautin’s] best work yet…. The Night Always Comes is a rare example of art that matters… heartbreaking, but also a combative condemnation of American injustice, while also a love letter to the beleaguered working class, and still damn fun to read." — Crimereads.com
'Vlautin’s finest work to date, marrying his typical deep empathy for troubled characters with a robust and dynamic plot reminiscent of classic American noir crime fiction ... All of this is done with a prose style that sings with simple clarity, like an arrow straight at the reader’s heart. Extraordinary stuff.' — Big Issue
'[Vlautin] has particular eye for setpieces . . . his hardscrabble characters and their vanishing dreams have the tang of authenticity.' — Daily Mail (UK)
“[Vlautin] is one of the great chroniclers of working-class American life.” — The Herald Magazine (Scotland)
“The Night Always Comes is another fine entry in Willy Vlautin’s well-chiseled portraits of the working class—both men and women, sometimes youthful, sometimes hardened—and their real-life choices in search of hope. By Vlautin standards, the ending of The Night Always Comes is practically upbeat. But be forewarned, it will break your heart.”
— New York Journal of Books
“The Night Always Comes is both intimately heartbreaking and cautiously hopeful, as Lynette quickly adapts to pursue a new dream, one that may or may not be as elusive as the rapidly fading American dream of homeownership.” — Bookreporter