Catapult - Softcover

Fridlund, Emily

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474609082 ISBN 13: 9781474609081

Publisher: weidenfeld && nicolson uk

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About the Author:

Emily Fridlund grew up in Minnesota. She holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. Her collection of stories, Catapult, was chosen by Ben Marcus for the Mary McCarthy Prize. She lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York. History of Wolves is her first novel.

Review:

This is a compelling, empathetic and funny look at 'asymmetrical' families, adolescence and ageing. * NEW STATESMAN * A powerhouse of a first story collection notable for its temerity and its skilled combination of humor and insight . . . this is - seriously - a laugh-out-loud collection as wise as it is funny * New York Times * Magical . . . Memorable and a joy to read * Library Journal * Fridlund's ability to conjure humor in the darkest moments is clear in her blending of sitcom set-ups with bleak undercurrents. Her breathtaking prose and sly expressions make for compulsive reading * Publishers Weekly * Eleven brilliant short stories showcase childhood, adolescence, marriage, and families, and how the appearances of these events and relationships in life can hide the strangeness and emptiness that pervade beneath the surface. . . . Fridlund unpacks these situations with such thoughtful diction and complex characters that her subdued and controlled language sets what is unsaid at the fore, unveiling hope, despair, and the paradoxes that are often ignored in such close relationships. Fridlund's intelligent and conversational voice impressively manipulates the emotional atmosphere of her stories * Booklist (starred review) * Eleven stories of misshapen families and broken friendships disturb and unsettle. Fridlund follows History of Wolves, her marvelous and preternaturally accomplished first novel, with a collection of jarring and polished short fiction. Bracing, often brilliant stories deliver a shock to the routine narratives we tell * Kirkus reviews (starred review) * Fridlund is a fine writer and her work is cut through with moments of sparse beauty * FINANCIAL TIMES on HISTORY OF WOLVES * One of the most intelligent and poetic novels of the year * NEW STATESMAN on HISTORY OF WOLVES * As exquisite a first novel as I've ever encountered. Poetic, complex and utterly, heartbreakingly beautiful -- T. C. Boyle, author of The Harder They Come on HISTORY OF WOLVES So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and depth -- Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake on HISTORY OF WOLVES Emily Fridlund's language is generous and precise, her story grief-tempered and forcefully moving. History of Wolves is the loneliest thing I've read in years, and it's gorgeous. These are haunted pages -- Leif Enger on HISTORY OF WOLVES An uneasy, but exhilarating, expectation of trouble ahead is manifest in her sharp and exquisite prose * DAILY MAIL *

About this edition

• Publisher: weidenfeld && nicolson uk
• ISBN 10: 1474609082
• ISBN 13: 9781474609081
• Binding: Paperback