Thomas Beller
Autor(a) de The Sleep-Over Artist: Fiction
About the Author
Thomas Beller is the author of a collection of stories, "Seduction Theory", & a Web site, www.mrbellersneighborhood.com. He lives in New York City. (Bowker Author Biography)
Obras por Thomas Beller
A Different Kind of Imperfection 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Student Body: Short Stories about College Students and Professors (2001) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Beller, Thomas
- Data de nascimento
- 1965-05-23
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Educação
- Saint Ann's School
Vassar College
Columbia University - Ocupações
- author
editor - Organizações
- Open City
Tulane University
Membros
Críticas
The Sleep-over Artist por Thomas Beller
A very New York novel, basically linked stories that comprise an episodic coming-of-age story. Lots of precise social and psychological insights, neurotic narrator, sexual misadventures - reminiscent in tone of early Roth and Foer's EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDILKY CLOSE.
I picked up this book after watching "Rebel in the Rye" hoping it might flesh out some of the vagaries. But they're still vague, his experiences in World War 2, his relationships with children and the raison d'etre of Catcher in the Rye. Still adds colour to Salinger rich body of work.
This is as much about the author's story of trying to research J.D. Salinger as it is a biography of Salinger.
I learned a lot more about how the author and others felt about Salinger than Salinger himself.
I learned a lot more about how the author and others felt about Salinger than Salinger himself.
by writer and Tulane University professor Thomas Beller
Publishers Weekly
04/14/2014
"Rather than writing a straightforward biography, Beller (How to Be a Man) offers here an exceptionally well-researched, deeply felt, and thoughtful exploration of the elusive author’s history, in which he probes Salinger’s life and prickly familial ties, and their manifestation in his timeless characters and settings. "
Thomas Beller
"I came to feel, in the course of this project, that too much time and energy has been devoted to the least interesting, least productive part of his life, those years of silence up in Cornish, N.H., while the most interesting and productive part of his life, which includes the period in which he wrote all the books for which is famous, has been underserved.
My book seeks to redress that imbalance."
4 ★… (mais)
Publishers Weekly
04/14/2014
"Rather than writing a straightforward biography, Beller (How to Be a Man) offers here an exceptionally well-researched, deeply felt, and thoughtful exploration of the elusive author’s history, in which he probes Salinger’s life and prickly familial ties, and their manifestation in his timeless characters and settings. "
Thomas Beller
"I came to feel, in the course of this project, that too much time and energy has been devoted to the least interesting, least productive part of his life, those years of silence up in Cornish, N.H., while the most interesting and productive part of his life, which includes the period in which he wrote all the books for which is famous, has been underserved.
My book seeks to redress that imbalance."
4 ★… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 18
- Also by
- 4
- Membros
- 329
- Popularidade
- #72,116
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Críticas
- 6
- ISBN
- 34
- Línguas
- 2
- Pedras de toque
- 1