06474cam a2200553 4500 234149271 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781590516973 1590516974 B00K9MIYYI Amazon 78e69dcf-21a0-43d2-8fd8-61ad46a782d4 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 238173 1742849 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Stamm, Peter, 1963- All Days Are Night [Bridges eBook]. Other Press, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2099kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:A novel about survival, self-reliance, and art, by Peter Stamm, finalist for the 2013 Man Booker International Prize All Days Are Night is the story of Gillian, a successful and beautiful TV host, content with her marriage to Matthias, even if she feels restless at times. One night following an argument, the couple has a terrible car accident: Matthias, who is drunk, hits a deer on the wet road and dies in the crash. Gillian wakes up in the hospital completely disfigured. Only slowly, after many twists and turns, does she put her life back together, and reconnects with a love interest of the past who becomes a possible future--or so it seems. In Stamm's unadorned and haunting style, this new novel forcefully tells the story of a woman who loses her life but must stay alive all the same. How she works everything out in the end is at once surprising and incredibly rewarding.. HTML:"In a moment, our lives can change, our identities can vanish; if we are to live, we must re-form ourselves. In his elegantly-written and profound new novel, Peter Stamm investigates and tracks how one such self is reconfigured with scraps of an old life while moving-by-feel into a new one. With beautiful clarity, realism and compassion, All Days are Night takes us deep into a psyche-in-transition; the result is a revelatory novel that probes our most closely-held assumptions about how to live in this world.". HTML:Michelle Huneven, author of Off Course. HTML:"Everything Peter Stamm turns his hand to is highly disturbing, acutely perceptive, and unfathomably gripping, and All Days Are Night is no exception. In sentences that are plain and surgical, in prose that has about it a disquieting stillness, he dissects our fractured lives. A masterpiece of disorientation and control, All Days Are Night may be his best novel yet.". HTML:Rupert Thomson, award-winning author of The Insult and This Party's Got to Stop. "The lucidity of Peter Stamm's writing contrasts with the complexity of his characters...he has similarities with Gerbrand Bakker and Helle Helle, whose protagonists are as opaque their creators' writing is clear. In laying bare his characters' vulnerability and illogical behaviour, Stamm renders the lives of the ordinary as fascinating as the studies of any anthropologist.". HTML:The Guardian. "Stamm's careful, pared-down narrative, translated from German with great suppleness by Michael Hofmann, stops to notice all mirrors, all reflective surfaces or cameras, anything and anyone involved in visually representing the world. How can you see, Stamm's novel asks, when everyone is looking at you? How can you make art under that kind of pressure?". HTML:The New York Times Book Review. HTML:"A tour de force [that] concern[s] itself with the mutability of identity. Stamm eschews middlebrow concerns of plot and resolution...his narrative is centered on the ruptures in his main characters' lives and their consequences. ...All Days Are Night recuperates one of the biggest themes any novelist can tackle with austere, formal brilliance.". HTML:Financial Times. HTML:"All Days Are Night" is a gracious variation on a bitter theme, and one in which the author's clarity of style comes to seem part of the cure: like a balsam, it soothes the characters' sufferings, and helps them back into their lives.". HTML:Spiegel Online. "Stamm...gives this well-worn set-up real energy...His prose, in a crystalline translation by Michael Hofmann, is as sharply illuminating as a surgical light. ...A profound and mysterious book.". HTML:The Economist. HTML:"All Days Are Night air[s] the psychological implications of our beauty obsession and the insidious ways in which it can obscure selfhood.". HTML:The New Republic. "Brilliantly translated by Michael Hofmann...Stamm perceives that grief is insane and horrifying, a nightmare that does not need to be emphasised.". Literary Review. "Stamm keeps his tenderly misanthropic gaze riveted on his unhappy protagonists. He is like a gentler version of the young Houellebecq.". Hans-Peter Kunisch,. "[A] complex, psychological tale...riveting...intensely moving.". HTML:The Wall Street Journal. "This brief volume speaks eloquently about recovery and reinvention.". HTML:Publishers Weekly. HTML:"A postmodern riff on The Magic Mountain...a page-turner.". HTML:The Atlantic. "A slim novel filled with big ideas about art and identity.". HTML:Kirkus. "Stamm transmutes turmoil into form.". HTML:The Times Literary Supplement. "A brilliant, bruising tale of shattered lives.". HTML:The Independent. "[An] engrossing story of recovery.". HTML:The New Yorker. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 14:05:02. 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