Jess Walter
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Jess Walter was born on July 20, 1965. He graduated from Eastern Washington University. Before becoming an author, he worked as a journalist. His work has appeared in Newsweek, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe. He has written one nonfiction book and several novels. visa mer His works include Every Knee Shall Bow, Over Tumbled Graves, The Zero, and Beautiful Ruins. His novel, Citizen Vince, won the 2005 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel. He was the co-author of Christopher Darden's 1996 bestseller In Contempt. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Jess Walter
Beautiful ruins 1 exemplar
Anything Helps 1 exemplar
3rd Culprit (in The Lifted Brow 4 - SCOTT) 1 exemplar
RRENOJA TE BUKURA 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 53 exemplar
You and Me and the Devil Makes Three (Esquire's Fiction for Men, #1) (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1965
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Spokane, Washington, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Spokane, Washington
- Utbildning
- Eastern Washington University
- Organisationer
- The Spokesman-Review
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Edgar Allan Poe Award Best Novel, 2005: Citizen Vince
National Book Award Best Novel Finalist, 2006: The Zero
Washington State Book Award in Fiction Finalist, 2006: The Zero
Washington State Book Award in Fiction Finalist, 2007: Citizen Vince
Washington State Book Award in Fiction Finalist, 2011: The Financial Lives of the Poets
New York Times Notable Book, 2001: Over Tumbled Graves (visa alla 12)
PEN USA Literary Nonfiction Award, 1996: Every Knee Shall Bow
PEN USA Literary Award, 2007: The Zero
LA Times Book Prize, 2007: The Zero
Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, 2007: The Zero
Time Magazine's #2 Novel Of The Year, 2009: The Financial Lives of the Poets
New York Times Bestseller, 2012: Beautiful Ruins - Kort biografi
- Home page: http://www.jesswalter.com/index.htmFrom author's site: http://www.jesswalter.com/bio.htm : Jess Walter is the author of THE ZERO, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award and CITIZEN VINCE, winner of the 2005 Edgar Award for best novel, as well as two other novels and a nonfiction book. He's won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and has been a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, the PEN USA Literary Prize, in both fiction and nonfiction, the ITW Thriller of the Year and he was part of a team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in spot news journalism. His books have been New York Times, Washington Post and NPR best books of the year and have been published in twenty countries.
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The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022: A… av Jess Walter
20 stories, almost 23 hrs of suspense and mystery. Good narrations. My favorite is “God Bless America” starts slow but is most charming. Some have profanity others not. All are interesting, some more n others. Worthwhile reading.
Finished. Found it moderately interesting. Not terribly moved or impressed.
This was a book club pick. I wasn’t sure what to expect… I haven’t been reading much, and I’ve really been struggling to get into anything. So imagine my surprise when I found myself at first mildly intrigued and then enthralled by this book that’s completely outside my literary comfort zone. At first I found it depressing - and even now, looking back after finishing it, I still do. I chuckled a few times, but I didn’t find it to be a “comedy”, as some interviews with Walter would have you believe. It was, perhaps, too much reality in my fiction, and I wouldn’t seek out another book like this one - or even anything else by this author. But I was intrigued enough to finish it, something I rarely say these days, and for that reason alone, it merits a higher rating than I may have given it months ago. I guess it’s true… we filter so much of what we read through our baggage and our moods and our personalities. I tend to forget just how subjective reading is until I pick up a book like this one, which reminds me.… (mer)
A delightful surprise. Could have been more but enjoyable for what it was
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Statistik
- Verk
- 22
- Även av
- 14
- Medlemmar
- 8,698
- Popularitet
- #2,756
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 494
- ISBN
- 205
- Språk
- 13
- Favoritmärkt
- 10
- Proberstenar
- 381
