Jess Walter
Auteur de Beautiful Ruins
A propos de l'auteur
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. afficher plus 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) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Jess Walter
The Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories 2022 (2022) — Directeur de publication — 32 exemplaires
By Jess Walter Beautiful Ruins (Platinum Readers Circle (Center Point)) (Lrg) [Hardcover] 1 exemplaire
Anything Helps 1 exemplaire
3rd Culprit (in The Lifted Brow 4 - SCOTT) 1 exemplaire
RRENOJA TE BUKURA 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (2017) — Contributeur — 57 exemplaires
You and Me and the Devil Makes Three (Esquire's Fiction for Men, #1) (2012) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1965-07-20
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Etats-Unis
- Lieu de naissance
- Spokane, Washington, Etats-Unis
- Lieux de résidence
- Spokane, Washington
- Études
- Eastern Washington University
- Organisations
- The Spokesman-Review
- Prix et distinctions
- 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 (tout afficher 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 - Courte biographie
- 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.
Membres
Critiques
Beautiful Ruins: A Novel par Jess Walter
This was a sweet story nicely put together, and I enjoyed reading it. But it would have been a much better book if it didn't suffer from too many words. Maybe it's just me, but I seem to keep running against this too-many-words ailment recently. I often had the feeling that Walter likes to hear the sound of his own voice (so to speak). For the most part, long passages, paragraph after paragraph, should be moving the story forward or telling you about a character. Many of Walter's words didn't do that. I felt that only one of the characters in this book was fairly well drawn, and that was Pasquale. The rest were cartoon figures. Since this was somewhat of a satire, that would have been acceptable if the text hadn't been bogged down by too many words that did nothing and went nowhere.… (plus d'informations)
This book was written on & off over 15 years. It shows. Some of it is really good, amusing, satirical. Some is so disjointed it was hard to follow.
A perfect summer read with a crazy cast of characters and settings on the coast of Italy and Hollywood and Seattle and even Sandpoint, ID as movies are made and pitched, loves are found and lost. Richard Burton figures prominently. Snippets of Italian are welcome as I'm studying it. The book wraps up satisfyingly with damp eyes and satisfaction that all is right in an unfair world. And it was recommended by Nick Hornby in The Believer.
I felt there were at least 3 different books in this novel. The episodic chapters, flashing back and forward in time, did not flow well, nor did I care for any of the several protagonists introduced (some only half way through the book).
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.
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.
Listes
Five star books (1)
Edgar Award (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 22
- Aussi par
- 15
- Membres
- 9,004
- Popularité
- #2,669
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 511
- ISBN
- 206
- Langues
- 13
- Favoris
- 10
