Kira Jane Buxton

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Hollow Kingdom

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Hollow Kingdom (2019) 1,031 exemplaires

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Date de naissance: 20th Century
Sexe: female
Nationalité: USA
Lieux de résidence: Seattle, Washington, USA
Prix et distinctions: Indie Next pick
finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor
finalist for Audie Awards
finalist for Washington State Book Awards
best book of 2019 by Good Housekeeping
best book of 2019 by NPR (tout afficher 7)
best book of 2019 by Book Riot
Courte biographie: Kira Jane Buxton's writing has appeared in The New York Times, NewYorker.com, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Huffington Post, and more. Her debut novel Hollow Kingdom was an Indie Next pick, a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor, the Audie Awards, and the Washington State Book Awards, and was named a best book of 2019 by Good Housekeeping, NPR, and Book Riot. She calls the tropical utopia of Seattle home and spends her time with three cats, a dog, two crows, a charm of hummingbirds, five Steller's jays, two dark-eyed juncos, two squirrels, and a husband.

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Hollow kingdom par Kira Jane Buxton

I quite enjoyed this novel, it had the right combination of humour and depth to make me laugh and feel. We follow S.T., a domestic crow as he tries to navigate an apocalyptic Seattle. All the humans have suddenly become zombie-like, and animals everywhere are running free. This novel contains a good amount of humour, with S.T.'s Cheeto obsession, inability to count, and ways of understanding the "MoFo" world, but also has some good depth - animals communication via different networks, clearly being persons in their own right, the way animals perceive humans and themselves, and a beautiful ending. The novel alternates different perspectives, so we get a range of different animals (and a tree)'s points of view. It's quirky, unique, with some good depth and room for analysis about humanity's relationship to animals, plants, and technology.… (plus d'informations)

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