Max Porter

Nun piso de Londres dous nenos enfróntanse á insoportable tristeza pola morte repentina da súa nai. O seu pai, un sentimental experto na obra de Ted Hughes,
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La comunión perfecta entre uno de los escritores más audaces e imaginativos de las letras inglesas y uno de los pintores más poderosos del siglo XX: Francis Bacon. Madrid, abril de 1992. Un gran pintor yace en su lecho de muerte, y las sinapsis estallan, deleitandose en el placer y el dolor de una vida llena de caoticos recuerdos que lo inundan y lo envuelven. En esta audaz y brillante obra, Max Porter se pone en la mente de un moribundo Francis Bacon durante su explosivo recorrido final. Porter evoca imagenes que hablan por si mismas mientras se vengan del sujeto que las manejo en vida. La muerte de Francis Bacon es un bombardeo fisico, emocional, historico, sexual y politico, que da cuenta de un hombre creativo y comprometido, erotico y masoquista, inexplicable e inspirado. Este es mi intento de escribir como pintura, no sobre ella; un intento de replicar el pensamiento, la lucha, la lucha del pensamiento, pero tambien la pura energia de la confrontacion del ojo con la imagen pintada. [...] Espero que, a pesar de ser un libro sobre la muerte, sea un ser vivo. Max PorterLa critica ha dicho: Max Porter intenta aprehender la psique de Francis Bacon en una novela honesta, profunda, que relata sus ultimos dias de vida. Toni Montesinos, La Razon La obra maestra en miniatura de Max Porter.The Irish TimesLa mas alta sensibilidad literaria al narrar.Ines Martin Rodrigo, ABC Porter es uno de nuestros escritores mas emocionantes. Se atreve a experimentar, y eso significa tanto la llamarada de mercurio como el crisol quemado. [...]Igual que su tema, La muerte de Francis Bacon es engañosa, malvada y maravillosamente extraña.The Spectator La muerte de Francis Bacon traspasa los limites, es oscura y divertida como toda la obra de Porter.The Independent Escrito en un estilo sucinto, evocador y en ocasiones vividamente poetico, trata de capturar con el lenguaje algo de la textura de los atormentados lienzos de Bacon, asi como el caos de su vida amorosa.The Guardian

Nº1 instantáneo en la lista de los más vendidos en Reino Unido según Sunday Times. LA NOVELA EN LA QUE SE INSPIRA LA PELÍCULA DE NETFLIX STEVE «Una novela valiente y penetrante que se mueve a toda ve

La mort arriba per sorpresa. I amb ella, el dol: un ocell negre immens que s'instal·la a la casa. El Corb cuidara els nens que s'han quedat sense mare i el marit que s'ha quedat sense dona. Fins que ja no el necessitin. El Corb es una mes de les veus del llibre. Els seus records, els seus jocs i les seves cançons es barregen amb els dels nens i els del pare perque les ferides es vagin curant a l'ombra d'unes ales esteses.

Its Going to be a Bright New Day: Would You Rather, with Bonnie Prince Billy is Max Porter asking Will Oldham questions. Will Oldham has to say whether he would rather one thing, or another. Many topics are covered, including music, sex, cuisine, literature and travel. Some people believe that the Would You Rather format is better suited to a long car journey than a pamphlet, but we disagree. It works just fine on the page. More than that, its very interesting and occasionally profound.

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NETFLIX FILM STEVE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY Max Porter is one of my favourite writers in the world.GEORGE SAUNDERSBeautiful and haunting. KEVIN BARRYThe strangest, most beguiling and affecting of all his books.IAN RANKINA miracle of language.IRISH TIMESThis is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a teenage boy. He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him. He is feeling a little sorry for himself. Shy is a novel about imagination, guilt and boyhood. It is about being lost in the dark, and realising you are not alone.Contemporary fictions bard of ugly beauty and exultant despair.NEW YORKERAn act of humanity and grace, heightened by its distinctive form and artistry.TELEGRAPHMax Porters book Shy was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 08-04-2023

From the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller Longlisted for the Booker PrizeBooks this good dont come along very often. Maggie OFarrellA magically beguiling work, a triumph.Financial TimesA thing of total joy . . . thrums with rhythm and life.ObserverNot far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to Englands mysterious past and its confounding present. It belongs to families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved here, such as the boy Lanny, and his mum and dad.But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, who has woken from his slumber in the woods. Dead Papa Toothwort, who is listening to them all.Startling, moving and overwhelming . . . Wonderful.Daily TelegraphA devastating, disquieting and exhilarating book.PsychologiesStunning and deeply affecting. Nathan FilerA remarkable feat of literary virtuosity.Sunday Times

** Order Shy, the Sunday Times number one bestseller from Max Porter, now ** A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYWinner of the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year award and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize.Amazing and unforgettable.THE TIMESDazzlingly good. ROBERT MACFARLANEUnlike anything Ive read before.GUARDIANCaptivating, poetic, and surprising.CILLIAN MURPHY In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mothers sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. This extraordinary debut, full of unexpected humour and emotional truth, marks the arrival of a thrilling and significant new talent.

A bold and brilliant short work by the author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny. Madrid. Unfinished.Man Dying.A great painter lies on his deathbed.Max Porter translates into seven extraordinary written pictures the explosive final workings of the artists mind.

Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2016. Short-listed for The Goldsmiths Prize 2015. Short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award 2015. "Dazzlingly good ...Anyone who has ever loved someone, or lost someone, or both, will be gripped by it. It''s very sad and very funny." (Robert Macfarlane). "In this slyly funny and thrillingly original work, Max Porter somehow pulls a brand new story out of the darkest despair." (Jenny Offill). "I''m not sure I''ve read anything like Max Porter''s book before. It stunned me, full of beauty, hilarity, and thick black darkness. It will stay with me for a very long time." (Evie Wyld). In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother''s sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss gives way to memories, the little unit of three starts to heal. In this extraordinary debut - part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief - Max Porter''s compassion and bravura style combine to dazzling effect. Full of unexpected humour and profound emotional truth, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers marks the arrival of a thrilling new talent.

Um romance original, poético e contundente sobre o tumulto da adolescênciaShy tem no seu currículo mais de onze chumbos e a expulsão de duas escolas. Agora está a fugir de Last Chance, o lar de acolh

From the bestselling author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny, Shy is a novel about guilt, rage, imagination and boyhood. It is about being lost in the dark, and realising you are not alone.Max Porter is one of my favourite writers in the world. George SaundersBeautiful and haunting. Kevin BarryThe strangest, most beguiling and affecting of all his books. Ian RankinA miracle of language. Irish TimesThis is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy.You mustnt do that to yourself Shy. You mustnt hurt yourself like that.He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him.Got your special meds, nutcase?He is escaping Last Chance, a home for very disturbed young men, and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors, his past and the heavy question of his future.An act of humanity and grace, heightened by its distinctive form and artistry. Telegraph

La rutina d''un poble dels voltants del Londres actual es trenca quan desapareix un nen. Mentre el busquen, un misteriós personatge espia la mesquinesa de la gent que forma la comunitat.Lanny es un xaval peculiar, que sempre juga sol i li agrada estar-se al bosc. La seva mare, una escriptora de novel·la negra, proposa a Pete, un esquerp artista jubilat, que faci al nen classes de dibuix. Entre ells sorgeix una gran complicitat, fins que Lanny desapareix i el vell es assenyalat com el principal sospitos d''un segrest o assassinat. El drama que pateix la petita comunitat on viuen tots els personatges es observat per un intrigant esperit ancestral, que es conegut com Papamort Orobancaci i te la capacitat d''escoltar alhora totes les converses dels vilatans. Es mort, en Lanny? "No sembla possible que un mateix llibre et deixi glaçat, et commogui profundament i tingui un ritme endimoniat." Kamila Shamsie"L''escriptura es astoradora i profundament impactant. Es un llibre que defuig qualsevol categoria." Nathan Filer

A devastating story told with the anarchy, the humour and the enchantment Max Porter's readers will recognise from Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019Not far from London, there is a village.This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England's mysterious past and its confounding present.It belongs to Mad Pete, the grizzled artist. To ancient Peggy, gossiping at her gate. To families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved here.But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort who has woken from his slumber in the woods. Dead Papa Toothwort, who is listening to them all.Chimerical, audacious, strange and wonderful - a song to difference and imagination, to friendship, youth and love, Lanny is the globally anticipated new novel from Max Porter.

A bold and brilliant short work by the author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny. A little masterpiece. Irish TimesLuminous. ObserverOne of our most exciting writers. The SpectatorMadrid.

A devastating story told with the anarchy, the humour and the enchantment Max Porter's readers will recognise from Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.

Una imaginativa y oscura fábula contemporánea sobre un pueblo inglés y un niño llamado Lanny, de uno de los autores más audaces y originales de las letras británicas. Nominada al Man Booker Prize, Wainwright Prize y Gordon Burn Prize. Lanny es un niño sensible e imaginativo, maravilloso para unos y rarito para otros, que crece arropado por el amor de unos padres que no siempre le comprenden y por las enseñanzas del viejo artista del pueblo. En este pueblo de cincuenta casas, pub e iglesia, rodeado de bosques e impregnado de chismorreos, un ser antiguo se divierte escuchando a escondidas a sus habitantes, especialmente a Lanny, su favorito. El ente forma parte de la memoria del lugar, su tradicion oral, y fluye con el devenir de sus dias, hasta que un suceso inesperado y terrible trastorna la apacible rutina de sus vecinos. Leer a Max Porter es dejarse llevar por el estilo lirico del autor mas audaz de las letras britanicas. La prosa y la poesia, la belleza y el horror, la creatividad y las mas devastadoras verdades humanas conforman un original relato sobre la infancia.Criticas:Lanny es un incendio, capaz por igual de irradiar estremecimientos de placer o de agonia, segun las expectativas y la tipologia de quien haya al otro lado.Antonio Lozano, La Vanguardia Parece que a las frases, que trazan caprichosos dibujos como en un libro de Apollinaire, se las lleven el viento y la musica [...] El autor, uno de los mas audaces de la lengua inglesa.Laura Fernandez, El PaisMezcla de experimentalismo, oralidad y narracion, y apoyada en la magia de la imaginacion, Lanny es, incluso con sus excesos, indecisiones y riesgos, una refrescante respuesta a la cansina #muerte de la novela#. Una respuesta tan briosa como esperanzadora.Jose Maria Guelbenzu, BabeliaMax Porter nos regala Lanny [.. El escritor britanico, editor, ademas, de Granta y Portobello Books, vuelve a demostrar que esta dotado para la mas alta sensibilidad literaria al narrar.Ines Martin Rodrigo, ABC A ver -¿Terrence Malick?, ¿David Lynch?, ¿Paul Thomas Anderson? ¿un imaginado estreno en el largometraje del pausado Bill Viola?- quien se atreve a volar y a posarse en las tan altas ramas de esta breve pero frondosa novela como la copa de un pino.Rodrigo Fresan, ABC Excepcional por su sobriedad y extravagancia. Un libro lleno de amor.The Guardian Que maravillaes Max Porter. Entregate a la narracion de Porter y a su amor por el lenguaje. Estaras en buenas manos.The Times La encarnacion definitiva de la naturaleza y su soberania implacable. Una de las novelas mas bellas de la decada.Book Page Una reinvencion oscura, maravillosamente sensual del cuento popular. Un relato moral hibrido sobre conciencia ambiental, paternidad y hacerse mayor.The New Yorker Porter juega con los mitos ingleses para explorar cuestiones como la humanidad, la comunidad y el dolor [...]. El estilo y la sensibilidad son los protagonistas.The New York Magazine Es una novela como ninguna otra; una lectura emocionante, alegre e inquietante. Llegara hasta tu pecho y se apoderara de tu corazon. Cada pagina es una delicia. E...

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