Discretion - Elizabeth Nunez

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Auteur(s) : Elizabeth Nunez

Editeur : Akashic Books, Ltd.

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/10/2016

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 302

Expédition : 363

Dimensions : 21.3 x 14.0 x 2.0

ISBN : 1617755451

Résumé :

Elizabeth Nunez's reissued fourth novel is a haunting, mesmerizing exploration into the often destructive price of passion.

Biographie:

Elizabeth Nunez is the award-winning author of a memoir and nine novels, four of them selected as?New York Times?Editors' Choice. Her two most recent books are?Not for Everyday Use, a memoir, which won the 2015 prestigious Hurston Wright Legacy Award for nonfiction, and the novel?Even in Paradise, a contemporary version of Shakespeare's?King Lear.?Her other novels are:?Boundaries?(nominated for the 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Fiction);?Anna In-Between?(PEN Oakland Award for Literary Excellence and long-listed for an IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award);?Prospero's Daughter?(2010 Trinidad and Tobago One Book, One Community selection, and the 2006 Florida Center for the Literary Arts One Book, One Community);?Bruised Hibiscus?(American Book Award);?Beyond the Limbo Silence (Independent Publishers Book Award);?Grace;?Discretion; and?When Rocks Dance. Nunez received her PhD from New York University and is a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, CUNY, where she teaches courses on Caribbean Women Writers and Creative Writing.