Plus, friend and (relatively) new PARIS REVIEW editor Emily Nemens. They cover a lot of books, and a lot of ground, from nerves about reading to insecurity about writing, in an honest and illuminating conversation. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.In our final episode of our Sewanee Writers’ Conference series recorded in the summer of 2018, James is joined by Christine Schutt, one of our greatest authors, to discuss her career from FLORIDA to her latest, PURE HOLLYWOOD. Schutt's haunting yet lyrical words linger long after the final page.' Los Angeles Times `Shot through with Woolf's lyrical, restless spirit.' New York Times Book Review `Her sentences never waste a phrase or even a word.' Washington Post There are as many ways of naming plants in the book as there are gardeners, each reflecting an inner as much as an outer landscape. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Pure Hollywood: And Other Stories. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Each is a wonder, pickled in her crystalline idiom and cured under her brutal, astonishing wit.'Claire Vaye Watkins `With terse sentences that read like poetry, Schutt strips each scene of excess context and cuts to the heart of the moment. Of the eleven stories in her fertile, dense and blooming new collection, Pure Hollywood (her first to be published in the UK), five feature gardeners prominently. Pure Hollywood: And Other Stories - Kindle edition by Schutt, Christine.
Come for the art of her exquisitely weird writing and stay for the human drama.' Ottesa Moshfegh `Christine Schutt is already easily among the liveliest stylists of our time, and these eleven stories prove we ain't seen nothing yet. In tales of rare wit and verve, Christine Schutt leads us into the lives of her perfectly drawn characters - couples young and old, children, skinny men, charming women - and dances on masterful prose through gardens, alcohol (often too much), luxurious homes, and resort vacation spots. Pure Hollywood captures several recognizable sorts of American landscapes and renders them and the people who wander through them in entirely new light. Please read her new book, Pure Hollywood.' Lauren Groff`A truly gifted writer.' George Saunders `Pared down but rich, dense, fevered, exactly right and eerily beautiful' John Ashbery `Pure Hollywood is pure gold. Pure Hollywood: And Other Stories de Schutt, Christine en - ISBN 10: 0802129226 - ISBN 13: 9780802129222 - Black Cat - 2019. 'Christine Schutt is one of my shining lighthouses.
0 kommentar(er)
