Memory Wall

ISBN-13: 9780007367726 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str.

Anthony Doerr

Opis

Anthony Doerr's brilliant new collection of stories is about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, and the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others. Now includes 'The Deep', which was awarded the 2011 Sunday Times Short Story Award.

Recenzje

'It's fair to say that Anthony Doerr is doing things with the short story that have rarely been attempted and seldom achieved. The stories in Memory Wall have such scope and depth that they hit as hard as novels three times their length. Doerr has set a new standard, I think, for what a story can do.' Dave Eggers

'Ambitiously wide-ranging and inventive, Doerr's six stories movingly investigate the ways in which we are nothing without memory.' Sunday Times

'Doerr is a lusciously good stylist.' Guardian

'If this book's wisdom can be summed up in a single line it is this one, from 'Afterworld': 'Within the wet enclosure of a single mind a person can fly from one decade to the next, one country to another, past to present, memory to imagination.' That thought informs Memory Wall many times.' Janet Maslin, Scotsman

O autorze

Anthony Doerr is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
All the Light We Cannot See. He is also the author of two story collections, Memory Wall and The Shell Collector; the novel About Grace; and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.