The Drive - Tyler Keevil

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Auteur(s) : Tyler Keevil

Editeur : New Internationalist

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/08/2009

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 320

Expédition : 440

Dimensions : 19.8 x 12.8 x 3.2

ISBN : 9781908434319

Résumé :

A fast-paced and hilarious contemporary odyssey, The Drive has all the adventure and surrealism of Hunter S Thompson?s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ? but overlaid with heartfelt yearning and hope.

Biographie:

Tyler Keevil grew up in Vancouver and in his mid-twenties moved to Wales.

He has published several books and his short fiction has appeared in a wide range of magazines and anthologies, including The Missouri Review, New Welsh Review, and PRISM: International.

He has received a number of awards for his writing, most notably The Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors Prize, the Writers? Trust of Canada / McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, and the Wales Book of the Year People?s Prize. He is the Programme Director for the MA in Creative Writing at Cardiff University, and also teaches various extracurricular creative writing workshops and courses.

Keevil?s debut novel Fireball was published in 2010 and was longlisted for Wales Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker Prize, and received the Media Wales People?s Prize 2011. His second novel The Drive was published to acclaim by Myriad in 2013. It was also longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker Prize and won the 2014 Wales Book of the Year People?s Choice Award. 2014 also saw the publication of Keevil?s short story collection, Burrard Inlet (Parthian), a story from which, `Sealskin?, was awarded Canad?s Journey Prize for the best short story of 2014 by the Writers? Trust of Canada.

'A road novel like no other I've read. Trevor's journey into the American north-west and his own wounded ego is magical, hilarious, dark and crazy.' - Matthew Francis 'Perfectly paced and often hilarious...Trevor is one of the most convincingly confused and yet undeniably honest narrators I have ever read...Keevil's prose is blisteringly honest and, despite the novels length, spare. This is an epic journey by anyone's standards but the short chapters, snappy dialogue and pure and simple crazy situations keep you firmly gripped to the back seat.' - We Love This Book 'Equal parts Hunter S. Thompson and Homer, the book alternates between Trevor's insane picaresque Odyssey and flashbacks to the birth and growth of the passionate love he's so desperate to forget...his journey into the American West is hilarious, his journey into himself revelatory, and you'll be glad to have gone along with him for the ride.' - Waterstones 'Trevor's journey, as with book itself, is best relished by simply settling back and enjoying the ride.' - Litro