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Diane Cook Libri

    27 luglio 1976

    Diane Cook esplora le sfaccettature crude e animalesche della natura umana e la lotta dell'umanità con il mondo naturale, avventurandosi spesso in visioni distopiche del futuro. Il suo approccio stilistico è caratterizzato da una prosa precisa e da un talento nel creare suspense che immerge il lettore in scenari tesi. Cook approfondisce temi di sopravvivenza, famiglia e perdita di identità in mondi sull'orlo del collasso. Il suo lavoro spinge i lettori a riflettere sul nostro posto nella natura e su ciò che ci rende veramente umani.

    Diane Cook
    The New Wilderness
    Man V. Nature

    • Man V. Nature

      • 288pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      *SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIANFIRST BOOK AWARD 2015* SHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES BOOKS PRIZE 2015 A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE NOTABLE BOOK OF 2014 A BOSTON GLOBE BEST FICTION OF 2014 ROXANE GAY'S TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2014 AN AMAZON BEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION OF 2014 AN iBOOK BEST OF 2014 Perfectly pitched and gorgeously penned, this astonishingly bold collection of stories explores the boundary between the wild and the civilized. Pitting human beings against the extremes of nature, Diane Cook surgically peels back the layers of civilization to lay bare our vulnerabilities and the ease with which our darker, primal urges emerge. These exhilarating and terrifying tales are set in worlds that are distorted versions of our own, where an alpha male is pursued through city streets by murderous rivals, a marooned woman defends her house against the rising flood and hordes of desperate refugees, and a pack of not-needed boys take refuge in a murky forest and compete against one another for food. Wry, transgressive and utterly unique, Cook's wildly inventive debut collection illuminates, with surreal humour and heartbreak, humankind's struggle not only to thrive, but survive.

      Man V. Nature
      3,7

    • The New Wilderness

      A passionate, tender and terrifying story of a mother's fight to protect her daughter

      The New Wilderness
      3,7