Never Breathe a Word: The Collected Stories of Caroline Blackwood - Hardcover

Blackwood, Caroline

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ISBN 10: 1582435693 ISBN 13: 9781582435695

Verlag: Counterpoint, 2010

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Praise for "Never Breathe a Word"

" "Never Breathe a Word" is nothing less than a marvelous slide into an emotional abyss . . . Always seeded with cold wit, [Blackwood] reveals remarkable, ungentle insight . . . Blackwood's characters are wicked and wise, cruel and funny and weak. They are liars. They are like many of us." -- "Los Angeles Times"

"A selection of compelling fiction and journalistic pieces [that] spotlight Blackwood's sharp-edged observations . . . [An] accomplished oeuvre by an author who should be better known in the States." -- "Publishers Weekly" (starred review)

"Caroline Blackwood's female characters are monstrous in size and in attitude . . . The male characters, no matter how altruistic, are crushed under their weight . . . This is typical Blackwood--taking familiar themes and throwing readers through a loop, either with plot twists, bizarre caricature, or both . . . Let's hope the strange musings of this boozy muse are here to stay." --Bomblog
Praise for "Never Breathe a Word"

""Never Breathe a Word" is nothing less than a marvelous slide into an emotional abyss . . . Always seeded with cold wit, [Blackwood] reveals remarkable, ungentle insight . . . Blackwood's characters are wicked and wise, cruel and funny and weak. They are liars. They are like many of us." --"Los Angeles Times"

"A selection of compelling fiction and journalistic pieces [that] spotlight Blackwood's sharp-edged observations . . . [An] accomplished oeuvre by an author who should be better known in the States." --"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)

"Caroline Blackwood's female characters are monstrous in size and in attitude . . . The male characters, no matter how altruistic, are crushed under their weight . . . This is typical Blackwood--taking familiar themes and throwing readers through a loop, either with plot twists, bizarre caricature, or both . . . Let's hope the strange musings of this boozy muse are here to stay." --Bomblog
Praise for "Never Breathe a Word"
""Never Breathe a Word" is nothing less than a marvelous slide into an emotional abyss . . . Always seeded with cold wit, [Blackwood] reveals remarkable, ungentle insight . . . Blackwood's characters are wicked and wise, cruel and funny and weak. They are liars. They are like many of us." "Los Angeles Times"
"A selection of compelling fiction and journalistic pieces [that] spotlight Blackwood's sharp-edged observations . . . [An] accomplished oeuvre by an author who should be better known in the States." "Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
"Caroline Blackwood's female characters are monstrous in size and in attitude . . . The male characters, no matter how altruistic, are crushed under their weight . . . This is typical Blackwoodtaking familiar themes and throwing readers through a loop, either with plot twists, bizarre caricature, or both . . . Let's hope the strange musings of this boozy muse are here to stay." Bomblog
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Praise for Never Breathe a Word

"Never Breathe a Word is nothing less than a marvelous slide into an emotional abyss . . . Always seeded with cold wit, [Blackwood] reveals remarkable, ungentle insight . . . Blackwood's characters are wicked and wise, cruel and funny and weak. They are liars. They are like many of us." --Los Angeles Times

"A selection of compelling fiction and journalistic pieces [that] spotlight Blackwood's sharp-edged observations . . . [An] accomplished oeuvre by an author who should be better known in the States." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Caroline Blackwood's female characters are monstrous in size and in attitude . . . The male characters, no matter how altruistic, are crushed under their weight . . . This is typical Blackwood--taking familiar themes and throwing readers through a loop, either with plot twists, bizarre caricature, or both . . . Let's hope the strange musings of this boozy muse are here to stay." --Bomblog

Reseña del editor:

The biography of Lady Caroline Blackwood includes tumultuous, highly public marriages to artist Lucian Freud and poet Robert Lowell, a reputation for eccentricity, and frequent flares of panic. At the same time, she left a body of work marked by intelligent, commanding writing that displays a singular wit and keen appreciation for the absurd. Never Breathe a Word calls attention to Blackwood's mastery, presenting a series of acclaimed short stories, both fictional and autobiographical. Selections span the entirety of her career, from her first book, For All That I Found There, to Good Night Sweet Ladies, one of her last before her death at age 64. The pieces of fiction alternate between tragic and artfully mundane, yet always share Blackwood's characteristic frankness and black humor. Three previously unpublished stories are included, featuring some of her most sympathetic heroines. Her nonfiction comprises eight evocative vignettes taken directly from her own life and set in narrative form. Beautiful, brazen, and living in "grand squalor" among ashtrays and empty liquor bottles, Blackood died in 1996 in Manhattan's Mayfair Hotel. She left behind a rare literary legacy—one that testifies to our shared struggles, and to the threadbare connection between art and life.

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• Verlag: Counterpoint
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1582435693
• ISBN 13: 9781582435695
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384