Ethan Canin Livres

" Du suspenses, de l'émotion, de l'observation, du plaisir : voici l'œuvre d'un écrivain au talent phénoménal. " (London Sunday Times) " Une salve dont chaque coup va droit au but avec une précision dévastatrice et beaucoup de grâce. " (Los Angeles Times) Ethan CANIN charme sans détours, avec une sensibilité et une justesse de ton remarquables. Dans les quatre nouvelles rassemblées dans ce recueil, il nous livre des fragments de vies, des instantanés familiaux qui transcendent la banalité des voix humaines. Qu'ils soient professeur d'histoire, comptable, adolescent ou père de famille, les personnages de CANIN sont terriblement humains. " Ils existent ces gens-là. Ils ont des illusions. Ils n'arrivent pas à croire que le monde soit aussi moche que ça ".

Delving into complex family dynamics and personal growth, the stories feature characters grappling with challenges like environmental concerns, marital strife, and self-identity. Cannin's compassionate narrative style captures their transformative moments with keen insight, humor, and elegance, offering readers a profound exploration of human experience.

Breathtaking in its suspense and beauty, Carry Me Across the Water is the story of a man’s turbulent journey, with his family, through the central years of the twentieth century. Young August Kleinman escapes from Nazi Germany to America, where his mother’s words—“Take the advice of no one”—fate him to a life of boldness and originality, from the poor streets of New York to the marble mansions of industrial Pittsburgh, from old world Hamburg to the jungle islands of the Pacific. Ultimately, near the end of a long and bountiful life, his resolution of a haunting encounter with a Japanese soldier during World War Two finally illuminates, at the deepest levels, the way authentic lives truly unfold. From the writer hailed as “the most mature and accomplished novelist of his generation” (Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio) comes this “exquisitely modulated short novel” (Los Angeles Times), which “eases its silky-smooth way into a reader’s consciousness even as it plumbs the depths” (Newsday).

From the celebrated author of The Palace Thief and Emperor of the Air, comes this stunning novel about the relationship between two very different men. Orno Tarcher travels from a small town in Missouri to New York City to attend Columbia University, where he begins a new life feeling unsophisticated and insecure. He soon strikes up a friendship with Marshall Emerson, a seductive and brilliant New Yorker whose sophistication dazzles Orno. As time passes, Marshall is revealed to be bent on destruction, and Orno's involvment with Marshall's worldly sister further complicates their friendship. Carefully crafted and skillfully informed by the works of Fitzgerald and Waugh, For Kings and Planets is a remarkable novel. A New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis StarTribune bestseller, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998.

"Blue River" tells the story of two brothers: Lawrence, brilliant but seething with anger, and Edward, responsible but cautious to a fault. To their mother, and to the world, Lawrence was always the bad brother, Edward always the good one. Over the years Edward has been both sustained and haunted by this perception; now a successful opthalmologist in his early thirties, his life seems a bulwark against any thought that the truth might be more complicated. Then his brother, whom he hasn't seen in ten years, appears one morning on his doorstep, knocking on his conscience. Lawrence has become everything Edward is not-- a drifter, gambler, a man on the run. Sly and somehow menacing, Lawrence challenges Edwards beliefs about who he really is, forcing him to recall their tumultuous childhood and uncover a long-buried story of betrayal.

In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents, becomes a yard boy on the grand estate of the powerful Metarey family. Soon, through the family's generosity, he is a student at a private boarding school and an aide to the great New York senator Henry Bonwiller, who is running for president. Before long, Corey finds himself involved with one of the Metarey daughters as well, and he begins to leave behind the world of his upbringing. As the Bonwiller campaign gains momentum, Corey finds himself caught up in a complex web of events in which loyalty, politics, sex, and gratitude conflict with morality love, and the truth.

Jsou romány, na něž se čeká desítky let, jestli se přece jen neobjeví. Jsou romány, na něž není čtenář nikdy připraven, neboť jejich síla a hloubka nejsou s ničím srovnatelné. Jsou romány, jež posouvají literaturu výš a dál. A právě takový je román amerického spisovatele AMERIKO, AMERIKO. Píše se počátek 70. let dvacátého století, prezidentem USA je Richard Nixon a lidé jsou již unaveni pokračující válkou ve Vietnamu. V této době se šestnáctiletý Corey Sifter stává pomocníkem na panství Liama Metareye, jemuž patří třetina okresu Carrol ve státě New York. Bystrý mladík zanedlouho uvízne nejen v předivu složitých vztahů panujících mezi členy rodiny Metareyových, ale je také čím dál více vtahován do zákulisního dění prezidentské nominační kampaně, když se jeho zaměstnavatel rozhodne vyslat do volebního klání svého vlastního kandidáta Henryho Bonwillera, charismatického demokrata poněkud pochybného charakteru. Ameriko, Ameriko! je vskutku velký americký román, příběh o pravdě a lži, skromnosti a aroganci, odvaze a zbabělosti, jenž podrobně mapuje jedno konkrétní období amerických dějin, ale zároveň zůstává zcela nadčasovým.

Zwölf Short Stories nordamerikanischer Autoren: Paul Auster, Harold Brodkey, Ethan Canin, Robert Coover, Irene Dische, Andre Dubus, Deborah Eisenberg, Richard Ford, David Gates, Lorrie Moore, Robert Olmstead, Thomas Pynchon, Christopher Tilghman und John Updike.