Max Porter
Auteur de Grief is the Thing with Feathers
A propos de l'auteur
Max Porter is the author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers, which made the Goldsmiths Prize shortlist 2015. This title also was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. (Bowker Author Biography)
Œuvres de Max Porter
The Hill 10 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories (2017) — Contributeur — 100 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Porter, Max
- Nom légal
- Porter, Max John
- Date de naissance
- 1981
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Pays (pour la carte)
- England, UK
- Lieu de naissance
- High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Études
- Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (BA|MA)
- Professions
- writer
poet
essayist
bookseller - Prix et distinctions
- Young Bookseller of the Year award (2009)
Sunday Times PFD Young Writer of the Year Award (2016)
Books Are My Bag Readers' Award for fiction (2016)
International Dylan Thomas Prize (2016)
Europese Literatuurprijs (2016) - Agent
- Lisa Baker (Aitken Alexander Associates)
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Critiques
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Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 2,543
- Popularité
- #10,103
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 137
- ISBN
- 96
- Langues
- 16
- Favoris
- 3
Review of the Strange Light paperback edition (May 14, 2019) of the original Faber & Faber hardcover (March 7, 2019).
I was probably fated not to love this book after my experience with the eBook edition which I briefly summarized in Warning Review: Avoid Microscopic Kindle Edition. I did give the book another chance though and was able to source a paperback copy from the library. This was mostly readable, even of most of the bizarre curlicue fonts, except for a sequence of pages 89-91 where the gobbledygook nonsense is even printed superimposed on itself.
See photo at https://scontent-ord5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/434412145_26034430556155717_8...
Photo of pages 90-91 of the paperback edition
That just angered me all over again. The feeling is enhanced when you actually try to read some of that stuff and it is basically meaningless with no relationship to the main plot. I suppose it is meant as the OCD ramblings of the mythological spirit named as Dead Papa Toothwort who plays a possible antagonistic role in the proceedings.
The rest of the story did have its charms. A young boy Lanny is taken under the wing of a resident elderly artist Pete Blythe while his mother Josie is busy writing a crime novel and father Robert is off in the big city doing something in the investment banking field. About 1/2 way through Lanny goes missing and the village joins forces in the search. There is definitely an outstanding sequence where mother Josie interacts in a dialogue & a stream of consciousness back and forth with a cantankerous neighbour woman named Mrs. Larton. That was at least worth the price of admission.
However it is points off for a gratuitous butchery of a hedgehog scene and the stupid use of the unreadable font passages. A 3-rating is my compromise.… (plus d'informations)