Stewart O'Nan
Autor de Last Night at the Lobster
Sobre El Autor
Stewart O'Nan was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 4, 1961. He received a B. S. from Boston University in 1983 and received a M. F. A. in fiction from Cornell University in 1992. Before becoming a writer, he worked as a test engineer for Grumman Aerospace from 1984 to 1988. He has mostrar más written several novels including The Speed Queen, A Prayer for the Dying, Last Night at the Lobster, The Circus Fire, and Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season. In the Walled City won the 1993 Due Heinz Literature Prize; Snow Angels won the 1993 Pirates Alley William Faulkner Prize; and The Names of the Dead won the 1996 Oklahoma Book Award. Snow Angels was made into a feature film in 2007. In 1996, he was listed as one of Granta's best young American novelists. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Stewart O'Nan
Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season (2004) — Autor — 857 copias
The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of Fiction and Nonfiction on the War (1998) 216 copias
[unidentified works] 4 copias
Land of the Lost 3 copias
Feriengeschichten 2 copias
Gaia's to y.s 1 copia
Engel im Schnee (German Edition) 1 copia
Endless Summer 1 copia
The Novel Of The Holocaust 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Contribuidor — 389 copias
Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things (2012) — Contribuidor — 57 copias
Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (2014) — Contribuidor — 44 copias
Smoke and Mirrors: Screenplays, Teleplays, Stage Plays, Comic Scripts & Treatments (2014) — Contribuidor — 24 copias
Killer Crimes — Autor — 2 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Coltrane, James
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1961-02-04
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ithaca, New York, USA
Edmond, Oklahoma, USA
Long Island, New York, USA
Avon, Connecticut, USA - Educación
- Boston University (B.S.)
Cornell University (M.F.A.) - Ocupaciones
- engineer
professor
writer - Organizaciones
- Grumman
University of Central Oklahoma
University of New Mexico - Premios y honores
- Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists (1996)
Miembros
Debates
Stewart O' Nan: American Author Challenge en 75 Books Challenge for 2017 (mayo 2017)
July 2014's SK Flavor of the Month - A Face in the Crowd en King's Dear Constant Readers (julio 2014)
Reseñas
Wow! This book is worthy of the hype. An absolutely riveting story......I simply could not put it down. The fact that this book tells a very real story.......a scenario that played out many times in the days when diphtheria ravaged small towns....makes it all the more harrowing. This is a haunting tale, that will stay with the reader long after the last page has been read. This probably isn't one for the easily disturbed....otherwise, I recommend for anyone who likes hard hitting books.
Too reliant on current tools - text, iphone, lingo - that will become dated with the passage of time. Which is unfortunate, because the theme and narrative, when devoid of these crutches, could be timeless.
Listas
Five star books (3)
Best Westerns (1)
Short and Sweet (1)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 37
- También por
- 21
- Miembros
- 9,523
- Popularidad
- #2,523
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 601
- ISBNs
- 302
- Idiomas
- 7
- Favorito
- 35
Emily Maxwell is an 80 year old widow, living alone in the house she had shared with her husband and their two children in Pittsburgh. Her days follow a regular routine, and her most faithful companion, besides Rufus her dog (a wonderful character in his own right), is her sister-in-law, Arlene. The reader follows Emily over the course of several months as she contemplates her own mortality, her relationship with her children, her loneliness, and her regrets. It's a very quiet novel - nothing much happens - but Emily is a brilliant, fully realized character who felt incredibly real to me. How O'Nan managed to turn this story into a compelling page-turner is a mystery to me, but he did it.
5 stars
"She would be judged by how she'd lived her life, not how she wished it had been. She accepted that completely. She was painfully aware of her failings. Every Sunday she confessed them, and while by no means clear, her conscience was no heavier than most, or so she hoped."
NB: O'Nan's earlier novel, Wish You Were Here, introduces Emily and her family, shortly after she is widowed. It's a very good book, but Emily, Alone can stand on its own. And there is a related noved, Henry, Himself about Emily's husband. I haven't read that one yet, but I'm looking forward to it.… (más)