Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.
Sto caricando le informazioni... Greetings from Gravipausedi Brian Bradford
Nessuno Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Greetings from Gravipause is a poignant, mirthful, and occasionally lyrical exploration into the entropy of love and how the heart can both attract and repel. Told in concurrent story lines that dart back and forth between hilarity and melancholy like the shifty eyes of a restless lover, Bradford's novel traces the decaying orbit of marital devotion and the emotional voids that can exist between bodies coasting beyond mutual attraction, with a masterful command of language and character that manages to remain playful and engaging despite the theme's inherent gravity. His masterful navigation through a decidedly post-modern narrative will keep you grounded even when it leaves you feeling as untethered as the narrator. This is the kind of book you find yourself reading over and over again, with new discoveries upon each revisit. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Funny, heartbreaking, and unorthodox." "Greetings from Gravipause is so good on so many levels, it is hard to believe it is a first book. Brian Bradford exhibits a precision and a playfulness with language that strike a rare, gratifying balance between wise guy and repenter. Moments throughout this novella tickle and punch at once, and the book itself is part exorcism, part exultation. Welcome to this new church where the guilty can find a good drink and where laughter is an absolution. For those of us who've desired the arrival of a fully-formed voice that's funny, heartbreaking, and unorthodox at once, Brian Bradford is who we've been waiting for." -BJ Ward, Author of Jackleg Opera "Whether it's a fully realized, multi-faceted musical composition or a unique universe, or both, in Greetings from Gravipause, Brian Bradford has crafted a whole world, at once familiar and strange, out of language very much his own, and now ours-which is what we ask of art." -Ellen Akins, author of Home Movie, World Like a Knife, and Hometown Brew ABOUT THE BOOK Greetings From Gravipause: The term gravipause is indigenous to cosmology; it identifies that point in physical space where two celestial bodies either lose their gravitational attraction for each other and break apart or collapse into each other. When applied to love relationships it takes on a whole other resonance. Greetings From Gravipause, a parallel narrative, tells the story of a 30-ish Anglo underachiever, self-professed failed bulimic, adjunct instructor of astronomy and his wife of eleven years, a Geisha wannabe with angelic mezzo soprano pipes, this juxtaposed with the story of a young father of two, soon three, on the morning he will leave his wife and children for a woman twelve years his senior. The novella explores the themes of love, and dissolution, stasis and legacy. It's about a father and a son. Husband and wife. Falling together. Or breaking apart. A tragi-comic attempt to take the reader to that place where one comes to realize that the days ahead are as scripted and certain as the days gone by. A place where the ties that bind have become frayed and of little consequence. The postcard reads Greetings From Gravipause. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
Discussioni correntiNessuno
Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... VotoMedia:
Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |