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In the Shadow of King Saul - Jerome Charyn

In the Shadow of King Saul

Essays on Silence and Song

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2018
Bellevue Literary Press (Verlag)
978-1-942658-42-9 (ISBN)
CHF 25,90 inkl. MwSt
A lyrical autobiography in essays from a celebrated author, honoring outlier artists and other heroes and villains who inspired him

In the New York Review of Books, Joyce Carol Oates expressed her admiration for an equally prolific contemporary: "Among Charyn's writerly gifts is a dazzling energy. . . . [He is] an exuberant chronicler of the mythos of American life"; the Los Angeles Times described him as "absolutely unique among American writers." In these ten essays, Charyn shares personal stories about places steeped in history and myth, including his beloved New York, and larger-than-life personalities from the Bible and from the worlds of film, literature, politics, sports, and the author's own family. Together, writes Charyn, these essays create "my own lyrical autobiography. Several of the selections are about other writers, some celebrated, some forgotten. . . . All of [whom] scalped me in some way, left their mark."

Jerome Charyn is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Maria La Divina; Ravage & Son; Sergeant Salinger; Cesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin; In the Shadow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song; Jerzy: A Novel; and A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century. Among other honors, his work has been longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and PEN Award for Biography, shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, and selected as a finalist for the Firecracker Award and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Film Culture at the American University of Paris, Charyn has also been named a Commander of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture and received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Manhattan.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 190 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik
ISBN-10 1-942658-42-7 / 1942658427
ISBN-13 978-1-942658-42-9 / 9781942658429
Zustand Neuware
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