Книга: Jess Walter «Beautiful Ruins»
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Gloriously inventive, funny, tender and constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a novel full of fabulous and yet very flawed people, all of them striving towards another sort of life, a future that is both delightful and yet, tantalizingly, seems just out of reach. Издательство: "Penguin" (2013) Формат: 130x195, 408 стр.
ISBN: 978-0-670-92265-9 Купить за 1259 руб на Озоне |
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Jess Walter
Jess Walter (b. July 20 1965[1]) is an American author of five novels. His work has been published in fifteen countries and translated into thirteen languages.
Walter is also a career journalist, whose work has appeared in Newsweek, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe. As a reporter he covered the Randy Weaver/Ruby Ridge case for the Spokane Spokesman-Review newspaper and authored a book about the case, Every Knee Shall Bow (revised edition titled Ruby Ridge).[2] He also writes short stories, essays and screenplays and was the co-author of Christopher Darden’s 1996 bestseller In Contempt. His 2006 novel The Zero was a finalist for the National Book Award.
He lives with his wife and children in Spokane, Washington. He is an alumnus of Eastern Washington University.
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Bibliography
Novels
- Over Tumbled Graves (2001)
- The Land of the Blind (2003)
- Citizen Vince (2005)
- The Zero (2006)
- The Financial Lives of the Poets (2009)
Non-fiction
- Every Knee Shall Bow (1995) (re-released as Ruby Ridge: The Truth and Tragedy of the Randy Weaver Family in 2002)
- In Contempt (co-authored with Christopher Darden) (1996)
Awards
- 2006 : Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel Citizen Vince.
- 2006 : National Book Award Finalist for best novel The Zero.
- 2006 : Finalist for Washington State Book Award in Fiction for The Zero
- 2007 : Finalist for Washington State Book Award in Fiction for Citizen Vince
- 2011 : Finalist for Washington State Book Award in Fiction for The Financial Lives of the Poets
References
- ^ Jess Walter biography (click "Meet the Writer" tab)
- ^ Jess Walter, Every Knee Shall Bow, HarperCollins ReganBooks, 1995, ISBN 0-06-000794-X.
External links
- 1965 births
- Living people
- American novelists
- Edgar Award winners
- Writers from Spokane, Washington
- Eastern Washington University alumni
- American journalist, 1960s birth stubs
- American novelist, 1960s birth stubs
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