Jesse Ball
1) March Book
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March Book is a wonder and a revelation. A shockingly assured first collection from young poet Jesse Ball, its elegant lines and penetrating voice present a poetic symphony instead of a simple succession of individual, barely-linked poems. Craftsmanship defines this collection; it is full of perfect line-breaks, tenderly selected words, and inventive pairings. Just as impressive is the breadth and ingenuity of its recurring themes, which crescendo...
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This volume by experimental writer Jesse Ball is a philosophical recasting of myth and legend. Employing an eerie narrative simplicity, these always-unpredictable poems are cautionary tales of the oppressiveness of monolithic culture on the development of artistic, philosophical, and political leadership. Alternating from the personal to the public, Ball attains a wide enough vantage to observe the cowardliness of historians in their refusal to ascribe...
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Lucia Stanton tiene dieciséis años, una inteligencia explosiva, a su madre internada en un manicomio, un Zippo que atesora porque le recuerda a su papá y algunas ideas muy claras acerca de cómo debería funcionar el mundo. Vive en un garaje con su tía, una vieja anarquista con la que comparte algunas reglas esenciales. Para Lucia, la más importante es: "No hagas cosas de las que no te sientas orgullosa". Luego de ser expulsada por haberle clavado...
4) Los niños 6
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En la primera página de esta novela, unos golpes en la habitación de al lado advierten a Devlin y Mina que algo terrible está pasando. Ellos no lo saben aún, pero acaban de despertar a un mundo nuevo, un mundo en el que sus padres y la mayoría de las personas han muerto de manera misteriosa y la ciudad empieza a ser cercada por las llamas. Solo quedan los niños, que salen a las calles arrastrando sus juguetes y a sus hermanos más pequeños...
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De un día para el otro, la esposa de Jesse Ball decide dejar de hablarle y ponerle fin a la buena vida que llevaban juntos. Ese silencio voluntario, enigmático, además del dolor que le provoca, lo impulsa a viajar a Japón para investigar un caso que conoce por los diarios y que quizás lo ayude a entender lo que está viviendo: la historia de un hombre que guardó silencio hasta las últimas consecuencias.
Se trata de Oda Sotatsu, un simple vendedor...
6) Autoportrait
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Jesse Ball has produced fourteen acclaimed works of deeply empathetic absurdism in poetry and fiction. Now, he offers listeners his first memoir, one that showcases his "humane curiosity" (James Wood) and invites the listener into a raw and personal account of love, grief, and memory. Inspired by the memoir Édouard Leve put to paper shortly before his death, Autoportrait is an extraordinarily frank and intimate work from one of America's most brilliant...
7) Census
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Learning that he does not have long to live and will need to figure out how to provide for his developmentally disabled adult son, a widower signs up as a census taker for a mysterious government bureau and leaves town with his son on a cross-country journey.
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***LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD***
From the author of Silence Once Begun, a beguiling new novel about a man starting over at the most basic level, and the strange woman who insinuates herself into his life and memory.
A man and a woman have moved into a small house in a small village. The woman is an “examiner,” the man, her “claimant.” The examiner is both doctor and guide, charged with teaching...
From the author of Silence Once Begun, a beguiling new novel about a man starting over at the most basic level, and the strange woman who insinuates herself into his life and memory.
A man and a woman have moved into a small house in a small village. The woman is an “examiner,” the man, her “claimant.” The examiner is both doctor and guide, charged with teaching...
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"Lucia has been kicked out of school, again, this time for stabbing a boy in the neck with a pencil. Her father is dead; her mother is in a mental institute; and she's living in a garage-turned-bedroom with her aunt. Making her way through the world with only a book, a Zippo lighter, and a pocket full of stolen licorice, Lucia spends her days riding the bus to visit her mother in The Home, avoiding the landlord who hates her, and following the only...