Fortune Smiles: Stories (Wheeler Publishing Large Print Hardcover) - Hardcover

Johnson, Adam

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ISBN 10: 1410486079 ISBN 13: 9781410486073

Verlag: WHEELER PUB INC, 2016

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Praise for Adam Johnson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Orphan Master's Son"

"Harrowing and deeply affecting . . . In making his hero, and the nightmare he lives through, come so thoroughly alive, Mr. Johnson has written a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice."--Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"

"Remarkable . . . a work of high adventure, surreal coincidences and terrible violence, seeming to straddle the line between cinematic fantasy and brutal actuality . . . the single best work of fiction published [this year].""--The Wall Street Journal"

"A great novel can take implausible fact and turn it into entirely believable fiction. That's the genius of "The Orphan Master's Son." Adam Johnson has taken the papier-mAchE creation that is North Korea and turned it into a real and riveting place that readers will find unforgettable. . . . Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on which Johnson is painting here.""--The Washington Post"

"Adam Johnson has pulled off literary alchemy, first by setting his novel in North Korea, a country that few of us can imagine, then by producing such compelling characters, whose lives unfold at breakneck speed. I was engrossed right to the amazing conclusion. The result is pure gold, a terrific novel."--Abraham Verghese

"An epic feat of storytelling."--Zadie Smith

"A triumph of imagination . . . [Grade: ] A."--"Entertainment Weekly"

Praise for Adam Johnson s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "The Orphan Master s Son"

Harrowing and deeply affecting . . . In making his hero, and the nightmare he lives through, come so thoroughly alive, Mr. Johnson has written a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice. Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"

Remarkable . . . a work of high adventure, surreal coincidences and terrible violence, seeming to straddle the line between cinematic fantasy and brutal actuality . . . the single best work of fiction published [this year]. " The Wall Street Journal"

A great novel can take implausible fact and turn it into entirely believable fiction. That s the genius of "The Orphan Master s Son." Adam Johnson has taken the papier-mache creation that is North Korea and turned it into a real and riveting place that readers will find unforgettable. . . . Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on which Johnson is painting here. " The Washington Post"

Adam Johnson has pulled off literary alchemy, first by setting his novel in North Korea, a country that few of us can imagine, then by producing such compelling characters, whose lives unfold at breakneck speed. I was engrossed right to the amazing conclusion. The result is pure gold, a terrific novel. Abraham Verghese

An epic feat of storytelling. Zadie Smith

A triumph of imagination . . . [Grade: ] A. "Entertainment Weekly""

Advance praise for "Fortune Smiles"
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The stories in "Fortune Smiles" fizz with imagination, miniature worlds exploding onto the page. Adam Johnson s prose is so pared-down, like the setting for precious stones, he gives us just what s necessary to let the facets sparkle, without distraction. I loved this book! M. L. Stedman, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Light Between Oceans"
[Adam Johnson] serves up six sinewy stories that shock and surprise in his edgy, inviting "Fortune Smiles." . . . [They re] compulsively readable tales about characters whose lives are largely ignored, undervalued, or simply uncharted and whose voices we seldom hear. "Elle"
How do you follow a Pulitzer Prize winning novel? For[Adam]Johnson, the answer is a story collection, and the tales are hefty and memorable. . . . In the title story, two North Korean criminals adjust to post-defection life in South Korea. . . . Often funny, even when they re wrenchingly sad, the stories provide one of the truest satisfactions of reading: the opportunity to sink into worlds we otherwise would know little or nothing about. "Publishers Weekly" (starred review)

A half-dozen sometimes Carver-esque yarns that find more-or-less ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges and somehow holding up. Tragedy is always close to the surface in Johnson s work with tragicomic layerings. . . . Bittersweet, elegant, full of hard-won wisdom: this is no ordinary book, either. "Kirkus Reviews "(starred review)
Praise for Adam Johnson s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "The Orphan Master s Son"

Harrowing and deeply affecting . . . a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice. Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"

Remarkable . . . a work of high adventure, surreal coincidences and terrible violence, seeming to straddle the line between cinematic fantasy and brutal actuality . . . the single best work of fiction published [this year]. " The Wall Street Journal"

A great novel can take implausible fact and turn it into entirely believable fiction. That s the genius of "The Orphan Master s Son." Adam Johnson has taken the papier-mache creation that is North Korea and turned it into a real and riveting place that readers will find unforgettable. . . . Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on which Johnson is painting here. " The Washington Post"

Adam Johnson has pulled off literary alchemy, first by setting his novel in North Korea, a country that few of us can imagine, then by producing such compelling characters, whose lives unfold at breakneck speed. I was engrossed right to the amazing conclusion. The result is pure gold, a terrific novel. Abraham Verghese

An epic feat of storytelling. Zadie Smith

A triumph of imagination . . . [Grade: ] A. "Entertainment Weekly""

[A] bold and deeply wise collection. "BuzzFeed"
[Adam Johnson] is always perceptive and brave; his lines always sing and strut and sizzle and hush and wash and blaze over the reader. "The New York Times Book Review"
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Johnson packs more voice in his stories than most authors do in a novel. "Esquire"
""
Johnson has a rare combination of inventiveness, intellectual pyrotechnics and emotional sophistication. . . . These stories are treasures. BBC
Startlingly, blazingly original. "BookPage"
[Adam Johnson] serves up six sinewy stories that shock and surprise in his edgy, inviting"Fortune Smiles." . . . [They re] compulsively readable tales about characters whose lives are largely ignored, undervalued, or simply uncharted and whose voices we seldom hear. "Elle"
The stories in "Fortune Smiles" fizz with imagination, miniature worlds exploding onto the page. Adam Johnson s prose is so pared-down, like the setting for precious stones, he gives us just what s necessary to let the facets sparkle, without distraction. I loved this book! M. L. Stedman, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Light Between Oceans"
How do you follow a Pulitzer Prize winning novel? For[Adam]Johnson, the answer is a story collection, and the tales are hefty and memorable. . . . In the title story, two North Korean criminals adjust to post-defection life in South Korea. . . . Often funny, even when they re wrenchingly sad, the stories provide one of the truest satisfactions of reading: the opportunity to sink into worlds we otherwise would know little or nothing about. "Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
A half-dozen sometimes Carver-esque yarns that find more-or-less ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges and somehow holding up. Tragedy is always close to the surface in Johnson s work with tragicomic layerings. . . . Bittersweet, elegant, full of hard-won wisdom: this is no ordinary book, either. "Kirkus Reviews "(starred review)"

Masterful . . . Each [story] is a miniature demonstration of why his remarkable novel "The Orphan Master s Son" won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. "The Washington Post"
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Entrancing. "O: The Oprah Magazine"
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Just as audacious [as "The Orphan Master s Son"] . . . These six long, fearless stories explore dangerous territories, both personal and political. "San Francisco Chronicle"
""
Every one [of Johnson s stories] carves out its own little corner of weird, indelible humanity. [Grade: ] A "Entertainment Weekly"
[Johnson] is always perceptive and brave; his lines always sing and strut and sizzle and hush and wash and blaze over the reader. "The New York Times Book Review "(Editors Choice)
""
Johnson packs more voice in his stories than most authors do in a novel. "Esquire"
""
Remarkable . . ."Fortune Smiles"is the best short story collection since"Tenth of December." . . . Adam Johnson is one of America s greatest living writers. "The Huffington Post"
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" [Johnson s fiction will leave you] entertained and moved and terrified all at once. . . . "Fortune Smiles" [blends] exotic scenarios, morally compromised characters, high-wire action, rigorously limber prose, dense thickets of emotion, and, most critically, our current techno-moment. In the six almost-novellas contained in the book, a reader bears witness to a highly literary writer willing to take risk after risk after risk. "The Boston Globe"
Adam Johnson s [stories] will burrow their way into your heart, leaving you shaken but also exhilarated and enriched. . . . [His] writing is as rich in compassion as it is in invention, and that rare combination makes "Fortune Smiles" worth treasuring. "USA Today "(four stars)
Superb . . . explosive. "The Wall Street Journal"
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The best stories stretch well beyond their first and last words. They re more than the opening scene; they invite the reader to imagine what came before and what will come after. They re alive and they're limitless. That s exactly what the best stories in "Fortune Smiles" are like. NPR
[A] bold and deeply wise collection. "BuzzFeed"
Even as Johnson s subject matter bends genre is a way that is assertively contemporary, much of his prose is classically beautiful. . . . The speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell, which also trade in inherited traumas and personal resilience, come to mind, as do George Saunders darkly satiric visions of near-future America. "The New Republic"
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Transfixing . . . The collection amply confirms Johnson s daring and talent. "The Oregonian"
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Excellent. Minneapolis "Star Tribune"
Johnson has a rare combination of inventiveness, intellectual pyrotechnics and emotional sophistication. . . . These stories are treasures. BBC
Adam Johnson returns with this riveting collection of short stories, each reflecting the darkly imagined, slightly surreal point of view that animated his Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "The Orphan Master s Son." . . . He s a compelling writer, in any form. "San Jose Mercury-News"
Startlingly, blazingly original. "BookPage"
[Adam Johnson] serves up six sinewy stories that shock and surprise in his edgy, inviting"Fortune Smiles." . . . [They re] compulsively readable tales about characters whose lives are largely ignored, undervalued, or simply uncharted and whose voices we seldom hear. "Elle"
The stories in "Fortune Smiles" fizz with imagination, miniature worlds exploding onto the page. Adam Johnson s prose is so pared-down, like the setting for precious stones, he gives us just what s necessary to let the facets sparkle, without distraction. I loved this book! M. L. Stedman, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Light Between Oceans"
How do you follow a Pulitzer Prize winning novel? For[Adam]Johnson, the answer is a story collection, and the tales are hefty and memorable. . . . In the title story, two North Korean criminals adjust to post-defection life in South Korea. . . . Often funny, even when they re wrenchingly sad, the stories provide one of the truest satisfactions of reading: the opportunity to sink into worlds we otherwise would know little or nothing about. "Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
A half-dozen sometimes Carver-esque yarns that find more-or-less ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges and somehow holding up. Tragedy is always close to the surface in Johnson s work with tragicomic layerings. . . . Bittersweet, elegant, full of hard-won wisdom: this is no ordinary book, either. "Kirkus Reviews "(starred review)"

Reseña del editor:

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed novel about North Korea, "The Orphan Master s Son, " Adam Johnson is one of America s most provocative and powerful authors. Critics have compared him to Kurt Vonnegut, David Mitchell, and George Saunders, but Johnson s new book will only further his reputation as one of our most original writers. Subtly surreal, darkly comic, both hilarious and heartbreaking, "Fortune Smiles" is a major collection of stories that gives voice to the perspectives we don t often hear, while offering something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world.
In six masterly stories, Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. Nirvana, which won the prestigious "Sunday Times" short story prize, portrays a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finding solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In Hurricanes Anonymous first included in the "Best American Short Stories" anthology a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door.And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind.
Unnerving, riveting, and written with a timeless quality, these stories confirm Johnson as one of America s greatest writers and an indispensable guide to our new century.
Praise for "Fortune Smiles
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Masterful . . . Each [story] is a miniature demonstration of why his remarkable novel "The Orphan Master s Son" won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. "The Washington Post"
Entrancing. "O: The Oprah Magazine"
Audacious . . . These six long, fearless stories explore dangerous territories, both personal and political. "San Francisco Chronicle"
Every one [of Johnson s stories] carves out its own little corner of weird, indelible humanity. [Grade: ] A "Entertainment Weekly"
[Johnson] is always perceptive and brave; his lines always sing and strut and sizzle and hush and wash and blaze over the reader. "The New York Times Book Review "(Editors Choice)
Johnson packs more voice in his stories than most authors do in a novel. "Esquire"
A highly literary writer willing to take risk after risk after risk. "The Boston Globe"
[Johnson] serves up six sinewy stories that shock and surprise. . . . [They re] compulsively readable tales about characters whose lives are largely ignored, undervalued, or simply uncharted. "Elle"
Remarkable . . ."Fortune Smiles"is the best short story collection since"Tenth of December." . . . Johnson is one of America s greatest living writers. "The Huffington Post"
Johnson s [stories] will burrow their way into your heart, leaving you shaken but also exhilarated and enriched. . . ."Fortune Smiles"[is] worth treasuring. "USA Today "(four stars)
Superb . . . explosive. "The Wall Street Journal""

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• Verlag: WHEELER PUB INC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1410486079
• ISBN 13: 9781410486073
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384