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Jason Mott

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Jason Mott received a BFA in fiction and an MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His poetry and fiction have appeared in various journals including Prick of the Spindle, The Thomas Wolfe Review, The Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets, Measure and Chautauqua. His works visa mer include two poetry collections, We Call This Thing Between Us Love and Hide Behind Me, and the novel The Returned. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Vedertaget namn
Mott, Jason
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA
Bostadsorter
North Carolina, USA
Utbildning
University of North Carolina
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2009 Pushcart Prize Award (Nomination)
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Jason Mott lives in southeastern North Carolina. He has a BFA in Fiction and an MFA in Poetry, both from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His poetry and fiction has appeared in various literary journals. He was nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize award and Entertainment Weekly listed him as one of their 10 “New Hollywood: Next Wave” people to watch.

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(3.5 Stars)

This was a fun little story that starts with an old joke. It was a pleasure to read, and a pleasure to listen to the audiobook version!
 
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philibin | 2 andra recensioner | Mar 25, 2024 |
 
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BooksInMirror | 24 andra recensioner | Feb 19, 2024 |
Falls jemand noch schnell ein Leseziel erfüllen möchte, dem kann ich dieses kurze Buch empfehlen.
Am Anfang hatten das Buch und ich einen holprigen Start. Zum einen waren die Protagonisten zunächst schwer auseinanderzuhalten. Zum anderen wollte sich das Kopfkino nicht einstellen. Sobald ich ein Bild hatte, gab es ein kleines Detail (das zu allem Überfluss zunächst auch keinen Sinn zu machen schien), so dass man zwanghaft das ganze Bild ändern musste - und das immer wieder.
Gefallen haben mir allerdings die Grundidee der Geschichte und die inhaltlichen Wendungen, die man sowohl im Buch als auch im eigenen Denken vollziehen muss.… (mer)
 
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maralee | 2 andra recensioner | Jan 21, 2024 |
audio fiction (9 hours, 40 min)
Awards: National Book Award, Notable Books for Adults

funny/serious meta adventure (reading the named book that the protagonist talks about writing and promoting on book tour) that somehow involves a Black child (so dark-skinned his classmates have cruelly nicknamed him "Soot") who maybe can disappear at will and a best-selling author who meets him, or maybe just imagines he meets him. Both characters are from the small town of Bolton, North Carolina; significant time is also spent in San Francisco and Denver during the book tour.

Ridiculously comic moments are juxtaposed with a (purposefully) unsettling look at the protagonist's attempts to remain separate from the traumatic pervasiveness of a systemic disregard for the value of Black lives. An astounding, skillfully crafted story that I'll be thinking about for a long time.
… (mer)
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reader1009 | 36 andra recensioner | Nov 3, 2023 |

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Verk
16
Medlemmar
2,117
Popularitet
#12,156
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½ 3.5
Recensioner
197
ISBN
102
Språk
9
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