Книга: Walter Tevis «The Man Who Fell to Earth»
Серия: "SF Masterworks" Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars, and whose inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings. When he lands on Earth - in Kentucky, disguised as a human - it's with the intention of saving his own people from extinction. Newton patents some very advanced Anthean technology, which he uses to amass a fortune. He begins to build a spaceship to help the last 300 Antheans migrate to Earth. Meanwhile, Nathan Bryce, a chemistry professor in Iowa, is intrigued by some of the new products Newton's company brings to the market, and already suspects Newton of being an alien. As Bryce and the FBI close in, Newton finds his own clarity and sense of purpose diminishing. Издательство: "Gollancz" (2016) Формат: 130x200, 192 стр.
ISBN: 9781473213111, 1473213118 Купить за 1109 руб на Озоне |
Walter Tevis
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name = Walter Tevis
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deathdate = death date and age|1984|08|08|1928|02|28
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nationality = American
period = 1955–1984
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website = http://www.waltertevis.com/
Walter S. Tevis (
Tevis was born in
WWII and Kentucky
Near the end of
After graduation, he wrote for the Kentucky Highway Department and taught everything from the sciences and English to physical education in small town Kentucky high schools (Science Hill, Hawesville, Irvine and Carlisle). He married his first wife, Jamie Griggs, in 1957, and they remained together for 27 years.
Magazines
"The Big Hustle," his pool hall story for "Collier's" (
Novels
After his first novel, "The Hustler" (Harper & Row, 1959), he followed with "The Man Who Fell to Earth", published in 1963 by Gold Medal Books. He taught English literature and creative writing at
While Tevis was teaching at Ohio University, he became aware that the level of literacy among students was falling at an alarming rate. That observation gave him the idea for "Mockingbird" (1980), set in a grim and decaying New York City of the 25th Century. The population is declining, no one can read, and robots rule over the drugged, illiterate humans. With the birth rate dropping, the end of the species seems a possibility. Tevis was a nominee for the
Tevis also wrote "The Steps of the Sun" (1983) and "The Queen's Gambit" (1983). His short stories were collected in "Far from Home" (1981).Aspects of Tevis' childhood are embedded in "The Man Who Fell to Earth", as noted by James Sallis, writing in the "Boston Globe"::On the surface, "Man" is the tale of an alien who comes to earth to save his own civilization and, through adversity, distraction, and loss of faith ("I want to... But not enough"), fails. Just beneath the surface, it might be read as a parable of 1950s conventionalism and of the Cold War. One of the many other things it is, in Tevis's own words, is "a very disguised autobiography," the tale of his removal as a child from San Francisco, "the city of light," to rural Kentucky, and of the childhood illness that long confined him to bed, leaving him, once recovered, weak, fragile, and apart. It was also -- as he realized only after writing it -- about his becoming an alcoholic. Beyond that, it is, of course, a Christian parable, and a portrait of the artist. It is, finally, one of the most heartbreaking books I know, a threnody on great ambition and terrible failure, and an evocation of man's absolute, unabridgeable aloneness. [ [http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2004/05/16/a_life_and_an_oeuvre_plagued_by_shadows/ Sallis, James. "A life, and an oeuvre, plagued by shadows," "Boston Globe" (May 16, 2004)] ]
Films
Three of his six novels were the basis of major motion pictures of the same names. "The Hustler" and "
A member of the Authors Guild, Tevis spent his last years in New York City as a full-time writer. He died there of
Bibliography
Novels
hort stories
*"The Best in the Country" "Esquire", November, 1954.
*"The Big Hustle" "Collier's", August 5, 1955.
*"Misleading Lady" "The American Magazine", October, 1955.
*"Mother of the Artist" "Everywoman's", 1955.
*"The Man from Chicago" "Bluebook", January, 1956.
*"The Stubbornest Man" "The Saturday Evening Post", January 19, 1957. "John Bull" (London), June 29, 1957. "Familie Journal" (Copenhagen), September, 1957.
*"The Hustler" (original title, "The Actors") "Playboy"
*"Operation Gold Brick" "If", June, 1957.
*"The Big Bounce" "Galaxy", February, 1958.
*"Sucker's Game" "Redbook", August, 1958.
*"First Love" "Redbook", August, 1958.
*"Far From Home" "
*"Alien Love" (author's title: "The Man from Budapest") "Cosmopolitan", January, 1959.
*"A Short Ride in the Dark" "Toronto Star Weekly Magazine", April 4, 1959.
*"Gentle Is the Gunman" "The Saturday Evening Post", August 13, 1960.
*"Farnsworth's Eye" "Galaxy", 1960.
*"The Other End of the Line" "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", 1961.
*"The Machine That Hustled Pool" "Nugget", February, 1961.
*"Machine Record" "Science Fiction Adventures" (London), Vol. 4, No. 20. 1961.
*"The Scholar's Disciple" "College English", October, 1969.
*"The King Is Dead" "Playboy", September, 1973.
References
Read
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0813121922/ref=sib_ab_dp_pg?ie=UTF8&p=S06C&checkSum=GT6apZsJ5d3bqgAlXNZHZifWkQIoi8utG%2BZAN2ovqNo%3D "Rent Control" in Morris A. Grubbs' "Home and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories" (originally in "Omni" (October 1979) and collected in "Far from Home"]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=Vs8ugbiI7X4C&pg=PA364&dq=%22kentucky+anthology%22+-+tevis+hawesville&sig=ACfU3U0NufFhFBDJlgXeuEcE8zDdC0UZeA "The Kentucky Anthology": Excerpt from "The Color of Money"]
Listen to
* [http://wiredforbooks.org/waltertevis/ Don Swaim interviews Walter Tevis (1983–84) at Wired for Books.org by Don Swaim]
* [http://wiredforbooks.org/jamietevis/ John Ray interviews Jamie Griggs Tevis (2003) at Wired for Books.org]
External links
* [http://www.english.eku.edu/SERVICES/KYLIT/tevis.htm KYLIT: Lisa English on Walter Tevis]
* [http://www.waltertevis.com/ Walter Tevis official site]
Источник: Walter Tevis
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