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Schroder

A Novel

By: Amity Gaige

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A lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit. Attending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder-a first-generation East German immigrant-adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course. Schroder relates the story of Eric's urgent escape years later to Lake Champlain, Vermont, with his six-year-old daughter, Meadow, in an attempt to outrun the authorities amid a heated custody battle with his wife, who will soon discover that her husband is not who he says he is. From a correctional facility, Eric surveys the course of his life to understand-and maybe even explain-his behavior: the painful separation from his mother in childhood; a harrowing escape to America with his taciturn father; a romance that withered under a shadow of lies; and his proudest moments and greatest regrets as a flawed but loving father. Alternately lovesick and ecstatic, Amity Gaige's deftly imagined novel offers a profound meditation on history and fatherhood, and the many identities we take on in our lives--those we are born with and those we construct for ourselves.

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1455512141

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The Folded World

A Novel by the Author of Sea Wife

By: Amity Gaige

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The Folded World

A Novel by the Author of Sea Wife

By: Amity Gaige

From the author of the critically acclaimed Sea Wife Praised for her exquisite prose and crystalline insights, Amity Gaige returns with The Folded World, the story of an idealistic young social worker drawn into the lives of his mentally ill clients. Charlie Shade was born into a quiet, prosperous life, but a sense of injustice dogs him. He feels destined to leave his life of “bread and laundry,” to work instead with people in crisis. On his way, he meets his kindred spirit in Alice, a soulful young woman, living helplessly by laws of childhood superstition. Charlie’s empathy with his clients—troubled souls like Hal, the high-school wrestling champion who undergoes a psychotic break, and Opal, the isolated young woman who claims “various philosophies have confused my life”—is both admirable and nearly fatal. An adoring husband and new father, Charlie risks his own cherished, private domestic world to help Hal, Opal, and others move beyond their haunted inner worlds into the larger world of love and connection. A collision of extraordinary characters, The Folded World addresses the universal dilemma of love, wherein giving to another can seem like “the death of the world of oneself.” With an unerring eye for both the joys and devastations of life, Amity Gaige once again reminds us of the pleasures and depths to be found in her fiction.

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Other Press, LLC

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1590515048

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Sea Wife

A novel

By: Amity Gaige

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Sea Wife

A novel

By: Amity Gaige

A New York Times Notable Book "Sea Wife is a gripping tale of survival at sea—but that’s just the beginning. Amity Gaige also manages, before she’s done, to probe the underpinnings of romantic love, marriage, literary ambition, political inclinations in the Trump age, parenthood, and finally, the nature of survival itself in our broken world. Gaige is thrillingly talented, and her novel enchants." —Jennifer Egan “Sea Wife brilliantly breathes life not only into the perils of living at sea, but also into the fraught and hidden dangers of domesticity, motherhood, and marriage. What a smart, swift, and thrilling novel.” —Lauren Groff From the highly acclaimed author of Schroder, a smart, sophisticated page literary page-turner about a young family who escape suburbia for a yearlong sailing trip that upends all of their lives. Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. With their two kids—Sybil, age seven, and George, age two—Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four foot sailboat awaits them. The initial result is transformative; the marriage is given a gust of energy, Juliet emerges from her depression, and the children quickly embrace the joys of being feral children at sea. Despite the stresses of being novice sailors, the family learns to crew the boat together on the ever-changing sea. The vast horizons and isolated islands offer Juliet and Michael reprieve – until they are tested by the unforeseen. Sea Wife is told in gripping dual perspectives: Juliet’s first person narration, after the journey, as she struggles to come to terms with the life-changing events that unfolded at sea, and Michael’s captain’s log, which provides a riveting, slow-motion account of these same inexorable events, a dialogue that reveals the fault lines created by personal history and political divisions. Sea Wife is a transporting novel about marriage, family and love in a time of unprecedented turmoil. It is unforgettable in its power and astonishingly perceptive in its portrayal of optimism, disillusionment, and survival.

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Knopf

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0525656499

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O My Darling

A Novel

By: Amity Gaige

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O My Darling

A Novel

By: Amity Gaige

The external lives of Clark, a high school guidance counselor, and Charlotte, a bookkeeper, are utterly ordinary, but their interior lives are as bold and complex as abstract paintings colored by imagined possibilities, childhood joys and, more darkly, by deeply buried fears. When Clark rescues a young boy from drowning, a chain of events-some comic, some harrowing-is set in motion, revealing the fault lines of the couple's marriage and individual psyches. Amity Gaige is a consummate stylist. Her every sentence contains a tiny world-marrying striking images to deep, soulful ideas in perfectly concise fashion./DIV

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1455553573

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The Folded World

A Novel by the Author of Sea Wife

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Sea Wife

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Sea Wife

A novel

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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year “Brilliantly breathes life not only into the perils of living at sea, but also into the hidden dangers of domesticity, parenthood, and marriage. What a smart, swift, and thrilling novel.” —Lauren Groff, author of Florida Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. With their two kids—Sybil, age seven, and George, age two—Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four foot sailboat awaits them. The initial result is transformative; the marriage is given a gust of energy, Juliet emerges from her depression, and the children quickly embrace the joys of being at sea. The vast horizons and isolated islands offer Juliet and Michael reprieve – until they are tested by the unforeseen. A transporting novel about marriage, family and love in a time of unprecedented turmoil, Sea Wife is unforgettable in its power and astonishingly perceptive in its portrayal of optimism, disillusionment, and survival.

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Vintage

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0525566929

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Schroder

A Novel

By: Amity Gaige

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We are a Thunderstorm

By: Amity Gaige

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We are a Thunderstorm

By: Amity Gaige

Poems and photographs present images of both fact and fancy.

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O my darling

By: Amity Gaige

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O my darling

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Jouant avec l'apparente indolence du quotidien dans les banlieues américaines, Amity Gaige dissèque avec lucidité la vie d'un jeune couple. Pris au piège du mariage, comment déjouer l'inéluctable descente aux enfers ? Découvrez le premier roman de l'auteur de Schroder. Cela commence comme la plus belle des histoires : Charlotte et Clark, trois ans de mariage, des rêves plein la tête, un futur radieux. Et un projet, emménager dans cette jolie maison de la banlieue de Boston qu'ils ont achetée sur un coup de tête. Une maison idéale pour se construire un avenir commun, pour abriter la famille qu'ils vont former. Une maison comme un cocon. Ou comme une prison. Car peu de temps après leur installation, la maison qui hier encore leur paraissait si parfaite semble avoir changé. Comme si les murs s'étaient rapprochés, les plafonds abaissés, comme si tout l'espace s'était rétréci. Comme si la maison elle-même ressentait un certain malaise. Quelles angoisses se cachent derrière les murs ? Quel drame s'est joué dans l'enfance de Clark qui l'empêche d'envisager un avenir ? Pourquoi Charlotte a-t-elle un tel empêchement face à la maternité ? Parviendront-ils à renouer le lien ? Avec une douce ironie et une sidérante lucidité, Amity Gaige dissèque le quotidien d'un jeune couple, entre joies simples, angoisses tues et preuves d'amour.

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Belfond

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271445996X

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We are a Thunderstorm

By: Amity Gaige

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Schroder

By: Amity Gaigeová

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By: Amity Gaigeová

Českým čtenářům představujeme tvorbu oceňované americké autorky Amity Gaigeové (*1972), která v roce 2006 patřila podle National Book Foundation mezi pět nejvýraznějších mladých prozaiků. Od té doby vydala tři romány, my jsme vybrali právě její nejnovější román Schroder z roku 2013. Americká kritika jej označovala jako „Lolitu bez pedofilie“. Měla tím na mysli, že Gaigeová otevřeně odkazuje k tvorbě Vladimira Nabokova a skládá mu literární poctu. Kromě silného příběhu o únosu vlastní dcery vzbudila pozornost také originální forma (text je stylizovaný jako omluva a doznání titulního protagonisty) se střídavě lyrickým, melancholickým i akčním stylem. Schrodera zařadili mezi nejlepší knihy roku v The New York Times Book Review, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Women’s National Book Association, Cosmopolitan, The Millions.com, Publisher’s Weekly nebo v internetovém obchodě Amazon. ANOTACE Na počátku příběhu Erika Schrodera je nevinná dětská lež motivovaná přáním lépe zapadnout do amerického prostředí, v němž se ocitl jako syn německého emigranta; na jeho konci šestidenní dobrodružný únos vlastní dcery, o jejíž výchovu a styk s ní se soudí s manželkou Laurou. Tragickou, dramatickou i pohnutou historii svého života líčí Erik z vězení formou dopisu Lauře, kterým se chce obhájit, ale především sám porozumět vlastnímu jednání, jež ho navzdory lásce k ženě i dceři dovedlo až za hranu zákona. Román současné americké autorky, originální formou a střídavě lyrickým, melancholickým i akčním stylem přesvědčivě vystihující složitý vnitřní svět svého protagonisty, se krátce po vydání dočkal výjimečného ohlasu u čtenářů i kritiky, řadou amerických listů byl zařazen mezi nejlepší knihy roku a překládá se do téměř dvaceti jazyků. AUTORKA Amity Gaigeová (1972) je autorkou tří románů. Roku 2006 byla americkou National Book Foundation zařazena mezi pět nejvýraznějších mladých prozaiků, povídkami, eseji a recenzemi dlouhodobě přispívá do Los Angeles Times, Literary Review, Yale Review a dalších periodik.

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8074326608

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