Asymmetry (Wheeler Large Print Book)

Literature & Fiction

Halliday, Lisa

United States

Wheeler Publishing Large Print

A TIME and NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR * New York Times Notable Book and Times Critic’s Top Book of 2018 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY * Elle * Bustle * Kirkus Reviews * Lit Hub* NPR * O, The Oprah Magazine * Shelf Awareness “Asymmetry is extraordinary...Halliday has written, somehow all at once, a transgressive roman a clef, a novel of ideas and a politically engaged work of metafiction.” —Alice Gregory, The New York Times Book Review “A brilliant and complex examination of power dynamics in love and war.” —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal “A scorchingly intelligent first novel...Asymmetry will make you a better reader, a more active noticer. It hones your senses.” —Parul Seghal, The New York Times A singularly inventive and unforgettable debut novel about love, luck, and the inextricability of life and art, from 2017 Whiting Award winner Lisa Halliday. Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, “Folly,” tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes place in New York during the early years of the Iraq War, “Folly” also suggests an aspiring novelist’s coming-of-age. By contrast, “Madness” is narrated by Amar, an Iraqi-American man who, on his way to visit his brother in Kurdistan, is detained by immigration officers and spends the last weekend of 2008 in a holding room in Heathrow. These two seemingly disparate stories gain resonance as their perspectives interact and overlap, with yet new implications for their relationship revealed in an unexpected coda. A stunning debut from a rising literary star, Asymmetry is an urgent, important, and truly original work that will captivate any reader while also posing arresting questions about the very nature of fiction itself.

Asymmetry: A Novel

Simon&Schuster

A TIME and NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR * New York Times Notable Book and Times Critic’s Top Book of 2018 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY * Elle * Bustle * Kirkus Reviews * Lit Hub* NPR * O, The Oprah Magazine * Shelf Awareness The bestselling and critically acclaimed debut novel by Lisa Halliday, hailed as “extraordinary” by The New York Times, “a brilliant and complex examination of power dynamics in love and war” by The Wall Street Journal, and “a literary phenomenon” by The New Yorker. Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, “Folly,” tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes place in New York during the early years of the Iraq War, “Folly” also suggests an aspiring novelist’s coming-of-age. By contrast, “Madness” is narrated by Amar, an Iraqi-American man who, on his way to visit his brother in Kurdistan, is detained by immigration officers and spends the last weekend of 2008 in a holding room in Heathrow. These two seemingly disparate stories gain resonance as their perspectives interact and overlap, with yet new implications for their relationship revealed in an unexpected coda. A stunning debut from a rising literary star, Asymmetry is “a transgressive roman a clef, a novel of ideas, and a politically engaged work of metafiction” (The New York Times Book Review), and a “masterpiece” in the original sense of the word” (The Atlantic). Lisa Halliday’s novel will captivate any reader with while also posing arresting questions about the very nature of fiction itself.

Asymmetry

Granta

Asymétrie

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Фоліо

About the Author\nLisa Halliday creció en Massachusetts y de 1998 a 2006 trabajó para la agencia literaria Wylie, donde colaboró estrechamente con con Louis Menand, Deborah Treisman, Adam Gopnik, Louise Glück y Louise Erdrich. Ha publicado en The Paris Review, donde también ha aparecido su única obra de ficción hasta ahora, «Stump Louie». 
En 2017 obtuvo el Whiting Award for Fiction. Actualmente vive en Milán, donde trabaja como traductora y editora independiente. Asimetría es su primera novela.\nUno de los 10 mejores libros del 2018 según en New YorkTimes.\nEn la lista de los mejores libros de Publishers Weekly del 2018 
La novela de debut más esperada, por la ganadora del Whiting Award de 2017. 
«Una ópera prima impactante.».- The Guardian 
«Un fenómeno literario.».-The New Yorker 
Contada en tres secciones excepcionalmente absorbentes, Asimetría explora los desequilibrios que desencadenan y sostienen muchas de nuestras relaciones más trágicas: diferencias en edad, poder, talento, riqueza, fama, geografía y justicia. 
La primera parte, «Insensatez», cuenta la historia de Alice, una joven editora estadounidense, y su relación con el famoso y mucho mayor escritor Ezra Blazer. Un relato tierno y exquisito sobre un romance inesperado que tiene lugar en Nueva York durante los primeros años de la guerra de Irak, y que sugiere también la madurez de un novelista en ciernes. Por el contrario, «Locura» está narrado por Amar, un hombre iraquí-estadounidense que, de camino a visitar a su hermano en Kurdistán, es detenido por agentes de inmigración y pasa los últimos días de 2008 en una sala de detención en Heathrow. 
Estas dos historias aparentemente dispares ganan relevancia a medida que sus perspectivas interactúan, para desembocar en un epílogo inesperado. 
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 
One of the 10 New York Times Best Books 2018.\nA Publisher Weekly Best Book 2018 
The bestselling and critically acclaimed debut novel by Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry, hailed as“extraordinary” by The New York Times, “a brilliant and complex examination of power dynamics in love and war” by The Wall Street Journal, and “a literary phenomenon” by The New Yorker. 
Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, “Folly,” tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes place in New York during the early years of the Iraq War, “Folly” also suggests an aspiring novelist’s coming-of-age. By contrast, “Madness” is narrated by Amar, an Iraqi-American man who, on his way to visit his brother in Kurdistan, is detained by immigration officers and spends the last weekend of 2008 in a holding room in Heathrow. These two seemingly disparate stories gain resonance as their perspectives interact and overlap, with yet new implications for their relationship revealed in an unexpected coda. 
A stunning debut from a rising literary star, Asymmetry is “a transgressive roman a clef, a novel of ideas, and a politically engaged work of metafiction” (The New York Times Book Review), and a “masterpiece” in the original sense of the word” (The Atlantic). Lisa Halliday’s novel will captivate any reader with while also posing arresting questions about the very nature of fiction itself.

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