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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Brendan MathewsPublisher: Thorndike Press Large Print Imprint: Thorndike Press Large Print Edition: Large type / large print edition Dimensions: Width: 13.70cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 21.80cm Weight: 2.449kg ISBN: 9781432843366ISBN 10: 1432843362 Pages: 768 Publication Date: 09 September 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsBrash, bold, completely entertaining, and dazzling in its evocation of time and place, Brendan Mathews's splendid debut offers pleasures on every page. --Andrea Barrett, National Book Award-winning author of The Air We Breathe and Ship Fever Brash, bold, completely entertaining, and dazzling in its evocation of time and place, Brendan Mathews's splendid debut offers pleasures on every page. --Andrea Barrett, National Book Award-winning author of The Air We Breathe and Ship Fever What a book! The World of Tomorrow is a panoramic tour-de-force, a huge undertaking peopled with convincing characters and animated by a persuasive historical accuracy. But beyond all that, my fascination was with the way Mathews assembled the novel, sifting and endlessly resifting his characters like sand, as life itself piled up right in front of me. The grim realities of America on the cusp of a second World War will be recognizable, but in this capable writer's hands, the individual characters-passionate, secretive, naive, lucky, unlucky, and sometimes hapless-remain full of surprises to the last. They exist not against the backdrop of history, but tangled up in its complex, cruel, or absurd demands, desperate to find whatever space is allowed them for intimacy. --Ann Beattie, PEN/Malamud-winning author of The New Yorker Stories Advance praise for The World of Tomorrow What a beguiling debut Brendan Mathews has given us in The World of Tomorrow clever, smart, ambitious, richly textured, and moving. --Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Everybody's Fool Author InformationBrendan Mathews writes fiction and teaches at Bard College at Simon's Rock. A 2011 finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Prize, he has published in Best American Short Stories, Cincinnati Review, Glimmer Train, Virginia Quarterly Review, and others. He lives with his family in Lenox, Massachusetts. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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