"These four stories rank with Johnson's best work, but the title story, a catalogue of singular moments related by a man who tells us he's passing through life as if it were a masquerade, ranks with the best fiction published by any American writer during this short century."--New York
"A posthumous masterpiece . . . With this book, Johnson has only cemented his status as one of his generation's greatest writers. . . . Each story in Largesse is weighted by an astonishing humanity, a generosity of spirit that's evened out by lyrical dissections of time's passage and the mysteries of connection. . . . Here's an author turning toward the past, conjuring up the ghosts of those he's loved and lost, writing of wild experiences with affectionate abandon. Few have linked themselves between the reader and the page so intimately--so cosmically--as he does here."--Entertainment Weekly "An instant classic."--Newsday "Exceptional luminosity . . . hits a powerful vein."--The New York Times Book Review "Grace and oblivion are inextricably yoked in these transcendent stories, the testament of a writer who lived and worked on unusually close terms with death, until that great mystery finally stole him. . . . [Johnson's] gift is to extract the beauty in all that brokenness. . . . Though these are longer, fuller, rangier stories than the strobing fever dreams of Jesus' Son, they possess the same incredible emotional density. They feel squeezed, to borrow Johnson's phrase, 'in the almighty grip of the truth.'"--The Wall Street Journal "Nobody ever wrote like Denis Johnson. Nobody ever came close . . . We're just left with this miraculous book, these perfect stories, the last words from one of the world's greatest writers."--NPR "Johnson offers visions and sadness and laughter. But it's the sentences--those adamantine, poetic sentences--that made him one of America's great and lasting writers. It's the sentences that live on."--The Boston Globe "Johnson's fiction . . . overflows with creative energy, moving from one beauty to another with a mercurial, at times almost chaotic grace. Although his characters are often diminished and winnowed by their struggles with life, the narrative voice that describes their travails gives evidence of an imagination that is nearly boundless in its generosity and abundance."--Chicago Tribune "Sly, open-ended, and meticulously wise . . . Johnson, in all his work, aimed to locate the hidden, actual face of things. But the new stories build without those miraculous balls of hail, and their truths are necessarily deeper, and more precise. . . . [Johnson] is a writer whose ambitions were in their own way as broad and burgeoning as Dostoyevsky's. He is for all time."--Rachel Kushner, Bookforum "A final gift from a master."--BOMB Magazine "Denis Johnson's posthumous collection winks from beyond the grave. . . . Johnson told aspiring authors to write as if ink were blood, because it is precious. So are farewells like this. . . . It is a vital addition to Johnson's oeuvre."--TimeTwenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson
NATIONAL BESTSELLER · NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Dwight Garner, The New York Times · Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air · Chicago Tribune · Newsday · New York · AV Club · Publishers Weekly
“Ranks with the best fiction published by any American writer during this short century.”—New York
“A posthumous masterpiece.”—Entertainment Weekly
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review · The Washington Post · NPR · The Boston Globe · New York Public Library · Kirkus Reviews · Bloomberg
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most beloved and important writers of his generation, this collection finds Johnson in new territory, contemplating the ghosts of the past and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe assert themselves.
Finished shortly before Johnson’s death, this collection is the last word from a writer whose work will live on for many years to come.
Praise for The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
“An instant classic.”—Newsday
“Exceptional luminosity . . . hits a powerful vein.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Grace and oblivion are inextricably yoked in these transcendent stories. . . . [Johnson’s] gift is to extract the beauty in all that brokenness.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Nobody ever wrote like Denis Johnson. Nobody ever came close. . . . We’re just left with this miraculous book, these perfect stories, the last words from one of the world’s greatest writers.”—NPR
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Softcover. Condición: Good. Reprint. Twenty-five years after Jesus Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis JohnsonNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Dwight Garner, The New York Times Maureen Corrigan, NPRs Fresh Air Chicago Tribune Newsday New York AV Club Publishers WeeklyRanks with the best fiction published by any American writer during this short century.-New YorkA posthumous masterpiece.-Entertainment WeeklyNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review The Washington Post NPR The Boston Globe New York Public Library Kirkus Reviews BloombergThe Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most beloved and important writers of his generation, this collection finds Johnson in new territory, contemplating the ghosts of the past and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe assert themselves.Finished shortly before Johnsons death, this collection is the last word from a writer whose work will live on for many years to come.Praise for The Largesse of the Sea MaidenAn instant classic.-NewsdayExceptional luminosity . . . hits a powerful vein.-The New York Times Book ReviewGrace and oblivion are inextricably yoked in these transcendent stories. . . . [Johnsons] gift is to extract the beauty in all that brokenness.-The Wall Street JournalNobody ever wrote like Denis Johnson. Nobody ever came close. . . . Were just left with this miraculous book, these perfect stories, the last words from one of the worlds greatest writers.-NPR. Nº de ref. del artículo: SONG0812988655
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