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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Transcriptionist: A Novel (originale 2014; edizione 2014)di Amy Rowland
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I finished this book yesterday, coming in just under the year's end. And it was a great way to end a rough year. This is my favorite read of the year. The writing is tight, the protagonist was flawed, but likeable and believable, and I recognized a lot of the NYC references which certainly added to my enjoyment. ( ) I tend to not have the patience for B&N table display books that fall into the literary category of "people thinking about things." But here you have Amy Rowland thinking in lovely words about journalistic integrity, quarter-life crises, being eaten by lions, and about parsing meaning from words themselves when they swarm in meaningless numbers. The Transcriptionist will reward a more patient reader than I happen to be, but I think this one is probably worth circling back around to. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. A literary novel about a transcriptionist for a major New York City newspaper. Comfortable in her repetitive life, Lena gets an awakening one day when she transcribes a story about a woman mauled by lions at the zoo. The novel is mesmerizing and beautifully written. Lena's awakening is powerful and relatable. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. It was a unique read but a bit boring at places. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML:“Haunting and provocative . . . Rowland’s writing is compelling and masterful.” —Delia Ephron, author of The Lion Is In Once, there were many transcriptionists at the Record, a behemoth New York City newspaper, but new technology has put most of them out of work. So now Lena, the last transcriptionist, sits alone in a room—a human conduit, silently turning reporters’ recorded stories into print—until the day she encounters a story so shocking that it shatters the reverie that has become her life. This exquisite novel, written by an author who spent more than a decade as a transcriptionist at the New York Times, asks probing questions about journalism and ethics, about the decline of the newspaper and the failure of language. It is also the story of a woman’s effort to establish her place in an increasingly alien and alienating world. “The Transcriptionist is suffused with prescient insight into journalism, ethics, and alienation . . . A thought provoking, original work.” —New York Journal of Books “Rowland seems that rare thing, the naturally gifted novelist . . . [She] deftly maps a very specific kind of urban loneliness, the inner ache of the intelligent, damaged soul who prefers the company of ideas and words to that of people . . . That urge—to make words holy—is at the heart of this novel’s strange, sad beauty.” —The Washington Post “The Transcriptionist holds many pleasures . . . [and] can be read through many lenses . . . Rowland plays with the notions of truth and reliability . . . Sharp and affecting.” —The New York Times Book Review “A strange, mesmerizing novel . . . about the decline of newspapers and the subsequent loss of humanity—and yes, these are related.” —Booklist, starred review “Ambitious and fascinating . . . Disturbing and powerful.” —Library Journal “Entering the city Rowland creates, with its tightly strung dialogue and soulful, lonely citizens, is a memorable experience.” —The Boston Globe “Unforgettable. Written with such delight, compassion, and humanity it’s newsworthy.”—Alex Gilvarry, author of From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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