Alison Pick
Autor de Far to Go
Sobre El Autor
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Obras de Alison Pick
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Pick, Alison
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1975
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Canada
- País (para mapa)
- Canada
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Lugares de residencia
- Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada - Educación
- University of Guelph (BA|Psychology)
- Ocupaciones
- novelist
poet - Relaciones
- Davis, Degan (husband)
- Biografía breve
- Alison Pick (born 1975) is a Canadian novelist and poet. She has published two novels and two collections of poetry.
Pick was born in 1975 in Toronto, Ontario and grew up in Kitchener. In 1999 she graduated from the University of Guelph with a B.A. in psychology.
Her first book was written while living in Saskatchewan at a Benedictine monastery, then at a cattle ranch, and then in Saskatoon.[1] She currently lives in Toronto with her husband, writer Degan Davis, and their daughter.[2]
The title section of Pick's poetry collection Question & Answer won the 2002 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for Poetry[3] and the 2003 National Magazine Award for Poetry.[4] The book itself was short-listed for the League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry, and for a Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award. Pick also won the 2005 CBC Literary Award for Poetry
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Debates
Far to Go by Alison Pick en Booker Prize (octubre 2011)
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This is the story of a relationship. Told in alternating perspectives, we learn that Adam and Ellen have just split up. Ellen works in a trendy art gallery but is having trouble holding down this job as she grieves over Adam. Adam has embarked on a canoe trip in the Northwest Territories and will be gone for several weeks....or maybe longer. It's all a bit up in the air as he's left her a present that she thinks may be a ring but hasn't opened. Then comes a letter ending things. Then....well enough said.
It's a light read but well written.… (más)
It's a light read but well written.… (más)
A Holocaust book, yes, but one with a strikingly different story. Pick did a remarkable job with this book. The writing is elegant, but not self-consciously arty, and Pick manages to explore the impact of events on several characters in just a couple hundred pages.
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It is so well done! Though most of the characters were unsympathetic, I could not help but feel for them all, tied as they were to a doom so all-encompassing.
Throughout the book there are excerpts from the family letters, unfailingly ended with a postscript of their name, date of death, camp where killed.
I have been aware of the tragedy of Ww2 all of my life, I even lived in Germany for some time and was vaguely revolted by the way the fruit trees were so fertile (all that blood meal?). But this story affected me quite strongly and it is for that reason I highly recommend it. It is far too easy as time goes on to forget the inhumanity that occurred (and to be fair, is still occurring, with different victims and perpetrators). Sometimes a good story brings it all back, reminds us of how close we dance to a similar situation as fascism returns, as prejudice creates violence, as we watch it go by without comment. This story is a good, involving, and thought-provoking slap upside the head.
The ending has surprises but it will be the characters that pull you on.
Definitely worth a read.… (más)