Porter Shreve
Auteur de The Obituary Writer
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Porter Shreve
30/30: Thirty American Stories from the Last Thirty Years (Penguin Academics Series) (2005) 38 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1966
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Washington, D.C., USA (birth)
West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
San Francisco, California, USA - Études
- University of Missouri
American University (B.A.)
University of Michigan (M.F.A.) - Professions
- associate professor (Purdue University)
professor (English)
novelist
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Membres
- 307
- Popularité
- #76,700
- Évaluation
- 3.2
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 19
- Langues
- 1
He pushes himself as an obituary writer so he can be promoted to covering major news stories. This is all part of a plan he's had for years, nurtured by his widowed mother, to be as ambitious and successful as his father had been.
When a woman calls in her husband's obituary, Gordie is intrigued, and agrees to meet Alicia Whiting, the new widow. Her voice, confidence and mannerisms affect him strangely, and her appearance attracts him. Despite his common sense and the husband's sister warning him, he becomes caught up in Alicia and her plan to have him write a substantive story about her late husband.
Both Alicia’s odd behavior and the journalist in Gordie, drive him to conduct research. What he learns is both professionally and personally life-changing.
Novel was actually better than I expected.
Only time will tell if it’s memorable (one of my gauges for a “seriously good” book) but I doubt it.
Reading The Obituary Writer makes me wish I knew more about psychology in general, and the pathology of loneliness and its effects.… (plus d'informations)