The Burning Ground - Adam O'Riordan

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Auteur(s) : Adam O'Riordan

Editeur : Blue Guides Limited Of London

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/07/2017

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 224

Expédition : 295

Dimensions : 21.1 x 14.5 x 2.3

ISBN : 9780393239553

Résumé :

Moving from remote, sun-scorched towns to the charged hum of Venice Beach, The Burning Ground is a collection of eight stories populated by men haunted by their past and by their dreams, set against the canvas of California, where beauty and bleakness go hand in hand. In A Thunderstorm in Santa Monica, a man's unmoored lifestyle is reflected back at him after a long flight. In Black Bear in the Snow, a divorced advertising executive tries to rekindle a relationship with his son. And in the title story, The Burning Ground, a painter is haunted by memories of his former lover. The stories take familiar roles-the deadbeat dad, the drifting divorc?, the wayward man-and bring them new emotional depth, peeling back the layers to reveal interiors both unexpected and arresting in their complexity.

Written with a poet's lyricism and an outsider's keen eye, Adam O'Riordan's insightful work paints an intimate portrait of diverse male lives contending with the potential of the West Coast.

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Biographie:
After receiving his degree from Oxford University, Adam O'Riordan became the youngest poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust. His poetry collection In the Flesh won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2011, awarded to the best writer under the age of thirty-five. He lives in Manchester, England, where he is the academic director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University....

Sommaire:

Moving from remote, sun-scorched towns to the charged hum of Venice Beach, The Burning Ground is a collection of eight stories populated by men haunted by their past and by their dreams, set against the canvas of California, where beauty and bleakness go hand in hand. In A Thunderstorm in Santa Monica, a man's unmoored lifestyle is reflected back at him after a long flight. In Black Bear in the Snow, a divorced advertising executive tries to rekindle a relationship with his son. And in the title story, The Burning Ground, a painter is haunted by memories of his former lover. The stories take familiar roles-the deadbeat dad, the drifting divorc?, the wayward man-and bring them new emotional depth, peeling back the layers to reveal interiors both unexpected and arresting in their complexity.

Written with a poet's lyricism and an outsider's keen eye, Adam O'Riordan's insightful work paints an intimate portrait of diverse male lives contending with the potential of the West Coast.