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Sarah Shun lien Bynum

    1 gennaio 1972

    Sarah Shun-lien Bynum esplora le complessità delle relazioni umane e la ricerca dell'identità nelle sue opere. La sua prosa è caratterizzata da un'acuta introspezione psicologica e da una qualità onirica e suggestiva. Bynum intreccia con delicatezza narrazioni che spesso approfondiscono temi come la memoria, il desiderio e le silenziose distanze tra le persone. Il suo stile distintivo trasporta i lettori in mondi intimi dove realtà e fantasia si intrecciano pericolosamente.

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    Madeleine is Sleeping
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      • 240pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      A New York Public Library Best Book for Adults (2020)A Buzz Book of Fall at Publishers Lunch A WIRED Ultimate Summer Reading pickNational Book Award finalist Sarah Shun-lien Bynum's highly anticipated return weaves together like and unlike, mythic and modern. In nine stories that range from the real to the unreal, strange to familiar, funny to frightening, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum reminds us why her wildly original debut, Madeleine Is Sleeping, and her masterful Ms. Hempel Chronicles have become contemporary classics--celebrated and beloved.In a nimble dance of lightness and gravity, Likes explores the full range and contradictions of our contemporary moment. Through unexpected visitors, Waldorf school fairs, aging indie-film stars, the struggle to gain a foothold in the capitalist shell-game of work, the Instagram posts of a twelve-year-old--these stories of friendship and parenthood, celebrity and obsession, race and class and the passage of time, form an engrossing collection that is both otherworldly and suffused with the deceitful humdrum of everyday life.For readers of Joy Williams, George Saunders, Lauren Groff, and Deborah Eisenberg, Likes helps us see into our unacknowledged desires and, in quick, artful, nearly invisible cuts, exposes the roots of our abiding terrors and delights.

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      Die überaus talentierte Miss Hempel