Dan Chaon Kolejność książek (chronologicznie)

"A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a bighearted mercenary"--

Lata trzydzieste XX wieku, urokliwe, sielskie miasteczko w Nowej Anglii, kolebce amerykańskiej kultury. Nastoletni bliźniacy Niles i Holland dorastają w typowej wielopokoleniowej rodzinie o emigranckich korzeniach. Mają diametralnie różne usposobienie, ale łączy ich bardzo silna, niemal telepatyczna więź. Ich ojciec zginął w makabrycznym wypadku, a matka, nie mogąc pogodzić się ze stratą, popada w chorobę psychiczną. Chłopcy wiele czasu spędzają z babcią, z którą grają w surrealistyczną grę, a tymczasem na rodzinę spadają kolejne nieszczęścia... Ten drugi to doskonały horror psychologiczny, który nie epatując krwią, umiejętnie łączy niespieszne tempo z atmosferą tajemnicy i rosnącym nieustannie napięciem. Absolutny klasyk literatury grozy, nigdy wcześniej niewydany w Polsce. Thomas Tryon (1926–1991) to absolwent Yale, aktor znany ze świetnej roli w Kardynale (1963) Ottona Premingera i pisarz. Jego debiut literacki - Ten drugi (1971) – sprzedał się w ponad trzech milionach egzemplarzy i przez z górą pół roku utrzymywał na liście bestsellerów „New York Timesa”. W 1972 roku książkę przeniósł na ekran Robert Mulligan, reżyser Zabić drozda.

"A psychologist in suburban Cleveland, Dustin is drifting through his forties when he hears the news: his adopted brother Rusty is being released from prison. Thirty years ago, Rusty received a life sentence for the massacre of Dustin's parents, aunt, and uncle. The trial came to epitomize the 1980s hysteria over Satanic cults; despite the lack of physical evidence, the jury believed the outlandish accusations Dustin and his cousin made against Rusty. Now, after DNA analysis has overturned the conviction, Dustin braces for a reckoning"--Dust jacket flap.

Gorostarzu ne fétichise pas l'Amérique profonde et ne fuit pas dans les icônes du passé, la fluidité de la route nous suggère qu'il s'agit d'un simple passage, d'un état transitoire où le passé et le présent opèrent énigmatiquement.Le MondePrès de 200 photographies de l'Amérique d'aujourd'hui, un road-trip qui nous emmène de New York à la Californie, en passant par le Sud, Chicago, l'Arizona, le Nouveau-Mexique, le Texas, le Nebraska, le Montana ou le Colorado. Une Amérique éternelle, celle d'Edward Hopper et de John Ford, celle de Wim Wenders et de Gus Van Sant.Pour accompagner son travail photographique, Patricia de Gorostarzu a choisi les nouvelles de cinq jeunes auteurs américains, qui entrent en résonance particulière avec ses tirages. Scott Wolven, Dan Chaon, Brady Udall, Benjamin Percy, et Richard Lange. La littérature et la photographie réunies donnent une dimension particulière à cette Amérique que Patricia de Gorostarzu saisit à merveille.

Om de waarheid te verdoezelen over de concentratiekampen moet een groep intellectuele joden de brieven beantwoorden die gevangenen vlak voor hun dood gedwongen aan familieleden hebben geschreven.

In Dan Chaon's brilliant novel, the lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen ways. Miles obsessively searches for his troubled twin brother, who has been missing for ten years— and learns that some version of the truth is always concealed. At a deserted motel in the middle of nowhere, Lucy, a high school graduate who has run off with her charismatic teacher, begins to feel quietly uneasy. And Ryan, just hit with some shocking news, decides to remake himself—through unconventional and precarious means, Await Your Replyis a literary master- work, an unforgettable novel in which pasts are invented and reinvented and the future is both seductively uncharted and perilously unmoored.

Jonah Doyle is six years old. He lives with his mother, his grandfather and their dog Elizabeth in a yellow house in South Dakota. It is a house full of tensions, for Jonah's grandfather is old and tired, and his mother often doesn't want to talk at all. And then one sunny day in early spring, when the snow has mostly melted, a terrible accident occurs that will change the course of Jonah's life. That same spring, hundreds of miles away, Troy Timmens is growing up in a very different world. He spends his afternoons at his cousins' house, watching older teenagers smoking marijuana, pretending to be uninterested. When he is ten, he receives his first kiss. When asked how it feels to be adopted, he hardly knows how to answer, for he rarely thinks about it. He is perfectly happy with his life as it is. Over the course of this spellbinding novel, the secret connections that link Troy and Jonah are gradually revealed. 'You Remind Me of Me' is an unforgettable story about the extraordinary lives of seemingly 'ordinary' people.

L'idea di questa antologia, pubblicata come numero unico della rivista di Dave Eggers "McSweeney's", nasce dalla volontà del curatore, Michael Chabon, di ridare dignità e visibilità alle short stories di avventure in cui un tempo si cimentavano autori quali Balzac, Conrad, Henry James ed Edith Wharton. Una raccolta in cui il racconto breve riacquista la sua dimensione più classica, tradizionale e avvincente: quella di narrarre storie avventurose e piene di thrilling. Gli autori chiamati a misurarsi con questa sfida sono tra i più rappresentativi della letteratura angloamericana da Stephen King a Rick Moody, da Michael Crichton a Neil Gaiman, da Elmore Leonard a Nick Hornby per finire con Dave Heggers e Harlan Ellison.