The Rowing Lesson - Softcover

Landsman, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569475288 ISBN 13: 9781569475287

Verlag: Random House LCC US, 2008

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Winner of the South African M-Net Literary Prize (English category).

“Rarely in South African writing will we encounter language of such fire and passion.”—J.M. Coetzee

“The beauty of The Rowing Lesson is in its fluid metaphors, its urgent storytelling . . . and the lyric desperation of a daughter’s love.”—O Magazine

“Beautiful. . . . Unfailingly original.”—Jennifer Egan

“Visceral. . . . Intensely exhilarating.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Like Joyce or William Gass or John Edgar Wideman, Anne Landsman fashions a sensual web of memory and desire, rescuing a world on the brink of extinction through the power of her lyricism.”—Stewart O’Nan

“Amazing.”—Los Angeles Times

“A tour de force.”—Roxana Robinson

“An adventure in language. . . . It makes art of life.”—Louis Menand

Betsy Klein is summoned from her home in the United States to the bedside of her dying father in a South African hospital. Faced with having to say goodbye, she delves into his mind, speaking to him in the lyrical second-person. She imaginatively recreates his life—his struggles to become a doctor after being orphaned young and his fight to win the respect of his Boer patients as a Jew—as well as her own experiences with him as a father.

Anne Landsman was born and raised in South Africa and received degrees from the University of Cape Town and Columbia University. Her debut novel, The Devil’s Chimney, also set in South Africa, was a Book of the Month Club Quality Paperback Selection and was nominated for a PEN/Hemingway Award. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.

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Anne Landsman was born and raised in South Africa. Her debut novel, The Devil's Chimney (Soho Press 1997), was published in trade paperback by Penguin and was a Book of the Month Club Quality Paperback Selection. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.

Anne Landsman is the author of the novels The Rowing Lesson andThe Devil’s Chimney. The Rowing Lesson was awarded South Africa’s two top literary awards—the 2009 Sunday Times Fiction Prize and South Africa’s 2009 M-Net Literary Award for English fiction—and was shortlisted for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize. Award nominations for The Devil’s Chimney include the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She has contributed essays to the anthologiesTouch, An Uncertain Inheritance and The Honeymoon’s Over and has written for numerous publications includingVanity Fair, The Washington Post, The American Poetry Review, The Believer, The Guardian andThe Telegraph. Born in South Africa, she lives in New York City with her husband and two children.


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• Verlag: Random House LCC US
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1569475288
• ISBN 13: 9781569475287
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 279
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