Bob Shacochis

KINGDOMS IN THE AIR

Dispatches from the Far Away

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Whether he's in Cuba, Mozambique, or attempting to climb Mount Ararat, [Shacochis] vividly places you in both the past and present of his destinations . . . [his] restlessness and recklessness, all couched in a headlong maximalist prose, are impossible to resist.”-Boston GlobeShacochis' fiery, wrought prose is on full display . . . This is travel writing at its finest.” -Men's Journal, a Best Book of the MonthBest known for his sweeping international and political fiction narratives, including The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Bob Shacochis began his writing career… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-8021-2680-1
EAN: 9780802126801
Produktnummer: 21588612
Verlag: US Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 400 S.
Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.9 cm x D3.0 cm 403 g
Gewicht: 403

Über den Autor

Bob Shacochis's first collection of stories, Easy in the Islands, won the National Book Award for First Fiction, and his second collection, The Next New World, was awarded the Prix de Rome from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is also the author of the novel Swimming in the Volcano, a finalist for the National Book Award, The Immaculate Invasion, a work of literary reportage that was a finalist for The New Yorker Book Award for Best Nonfiction of the Year; and The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, which won the Dayton Peace Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Shacochis is a contributing editor at Outside, a former columnist for Gentleman's Quarterly, and has served as a contributing editor for Harper's and GQ. His op-eds on the US military, Haiti, and Florida politics have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.