Jess Walter
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Jess Walter was born on July 20, 1965. He graduated from Eastern Washington University. Before becoming an author, he worked as a journalist. His work has appeared in Newsweek, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe. He has written one nonfiction book and several novels. näytä lisää His works include Every Knee Shall Bow, Over Tumbled Graves, The Zero, and Beautiful Ruins. His novel, Citizen Vince, won the 2005 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel. He was the co-author of Christopher Darden's 1996 bestseller In Contempt. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (2017) — Avustaja — 56 kappaletta
You and Me and the Devil Makes Three (Esquire's Fiction for Men, #1) (2012) — Avustaja — 6 kappaletta
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1965
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Spokane, Washington, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Spokane, Washington
- Koulutus
- Eastern Washington University
- Organisaatiot
- The Spokesman-Review
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Edgar Allan Poe Award Best Novel, 2005: Citizen Vince
National Book Award Best Novel Finalist, 2006: The Zero
Washington State Book Award in Fiction Finalist, 2006: The Zero
Washington State Book Award in Fiction Finalist, 2007: Citizen Vince
Washington State Book Award in Fiction Finalist, 2011: The Financial Lives of the Poets
New York Times Notable Book, 2001: Over Tumbled Graves (näytä kaikki 12)
PEN USA Literary Nonfiction Award, 1996: Every Knee Shall Bow
PEN USA Literary Award, 2007: The Zero
LA Times Book Prize, 2007: The Zero
Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, 2007: The Zero
Time Magazine's #2 Novel Of The Year, 2009: The Financial Lives of the Poets
New York Times Bestseller, 2012: Beautiful Ruins - Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Home page: http://www.jesswalter.com/index.htmFrom author's site: http://www.jesswalter.com/bio.htm : Jess Walter is the author of THE ZERO, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award and CITIZEN VINCE, winner of the 2005 Edgar Award for best novel, as well as two other novels and a nonfiction book. He's won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and has been a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, the PEN USA Literary Prize, in both fiction and nonfiction, the ITW Thriller of the Year and he was part of a team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in spot news journalism. His books have been New York Times, Washington Post and NPR best books of the year and have been published in twenty countries.
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In the somewhat lawless, western world of the hard mining towns of the Northwest where “vice grew wild and untended,” there are two drifter brothers without much claim in an unkind world (166). Except for each other, what Rye and Gig could fit in their bindles, and some simple dreams, their journey is at the center of this historical novel about labor and union wars in the early-1900s. But while the story focuses on the Dolan brothers finding ways to be masters of their own fate instead of victims of circumstance, at the heart of the story stands the fiery, impassioned and empathetic Gaelic girl: an idealist who loves writing alliterative articles and traveling to unknown places and fighting for workers’s rights. It’s through the high-energy orator and organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Rye and Gig’s troubles in the IWW, a troubled police force, corrupt politicians and mining barons, Pinkertons, and tramps, bums, and hobos where the skirmishes and battles and wars are fought through idealism and cynicism, words and action, peace and violence—all of this highlighting the stark difference between those who live like kings and “the cold millions with no chance in this world” (105).
It’s a beautifully written story with heartbreaking characters and circumstance: “the world is built to eat you alive, but before you go down the gullet, the bastards can’t stop you from looking around” (18). While it’s rooted in a place in time—historical and political and Americana—it’s also real and relevant to our world today. It was reminiscent of Kristin Hannah’s The Four Winds and Kent Krueger’s Ordinary Grace and This Tender Land. If you’re fans of any of those novels, this should surely be added to the top of your TBR.… (lisätietoja)
It’s a beautifully written story with heartbreaking characters and circumstance: “the world is built to eat you alive, but before you go down the gullet, the bastards can’t stop you from looking around” (18). While it’s rooted in a place in time—historical and political and Americana—it’s also real and relevant to our world today. It was reminiscent of Kristin Hannah’s The Four Winds and Kent Krueger’s Ordinary Grace and This Tender Land. If you’re fans of any of those novels, this should surely be added to the top of your TBR.… (lisätietoja)
Here’s a perfect poolside summer read propelled by the glamour of old world Hollywood, the romanticism of the Italian Riviera, and the tragedy of fate and deeply flawed characters. This is a nonlinear story about several stories that intersect across decades and continents, highlighting our deepest desires, our most destructive demons, and “life [as] a glorious catastrophe” (275).
This character-driven novel opens in Cinque Terre, Italy, specifically in a small fishing village that’s home to a young man, Pasquale, retuning to care for his mother and the provincial family hotel, ironically named “The Hotel with the Adequate View.” In the beginning, Pasquale meets an American actress from the set of the Liz Taylor and Richard Burton film Cleopatra, and it’s through the meeting of these two characters, Pasquale and Dee, that we are introduced to an interconnected web of other characters’ stories—spanning from WWII to present day.
To me, this book is perfection: beautifully ruined characters who, while roughly imperfect, are completely endearing; gritty realism with just enough dark humor, self-awareness, and self-deprecation; and a plot that stays interesting and intriguing and surprising from its opening scene in Cinque Terre in the 1960s to its closing scene on the same rocky coast in modern day times.
✨I was fortuitous enough to be in Cinque Terre, Italy while reading this novel. Again, perfection.✨… (lisätietoja)
This character-driven novel opens in Cinque Terre, Italy, specifically in a small fishing village that’s home to a young man, Pasquale, retuning to care for his mother and the provincial family hotel, ironically named “The Hotel with the Adequate View.” In the beginning, Pasquale meets an American actress from the set of the Liz Taylor and Richard Burton film Cleopatra, and it’s through the meeting of these two characters, Pasquale and Dee, that we are introduced to an interconnected web of other characters’ stories—spanning from WWII to present day.
To me, this book is perfection: beautifully ruined characters who, while roughly imperfect, are completely endearing; gritty realism with just enough dark humor, self-awareness, and self-deprecation; and a plot that stays interesting and intriguing and surprising from its opening scene in Cinque Terre in the 1960s to its closing scene on the same rocky coast in modern day times.
✨I was fortuitous enough to be in Cinque Terre, Italy while reading this novel. Again, perfection.✨… (lisätietoja)
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There was definitely good writing in many places, with some excellent phrases that popped out amid the reading. The description of the caregiver's point of view of a loved one with Alzheimer's was particularly poignant.