Most Popular Books by Wells Tower

Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island, hoping some mayhem will shake off the winter blahs. A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the print of a bare foot on the inside of his windshield doesn''t match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl. In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily try to reassemble themselves. His version of America is touched with the seamy splendor of the dropout, the misfit: failed inventors, boozy dreamers, hapless fathers, wayward sons. Combining electric prose with savage wit, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned is a major debut, announcing a voice we have not heard before.

A catalogue of new work by American artist John Currin, one of the world’s foremost figurative painters. John Currin’s work draws upon a broad range of cultural influences that include Renaissance oil paintings, 1950s women’s magazine advertisements, and contemporary politics. Labeled as mannerist, caricaturist, radical conservative, or satirist, Currin continues to confound expectations and evade categorization. While his virtuosic technique is indebted to the history of classical painting, the images engage startlingly contemporary ideas about the representation of the human figure. Currin paints challengingly perverse images of female subjects, from lusty doe-eyed nymphs to more ethereal feminine prototypes. With his uncanny ability to locate the point at which the beautiful and the grotesque are in perfect balance, he produces subversive portraits of idiosyncratic women in conventional settings. This much-anticipated volume comes four years after the definitive John Currin, and it features an interview with the artist by Angus Cook and six short-fiction essays by Wells Tower.

L''autore, come tutti i suoi grandi antenati - Hemingway, Carver, Faulkner, Roth, Cheever, Yates, Bolaño - è un conoscitore della violenza, e la sua prima raccolta di racconti uno stupefacente concentrato di crudeltà, coercizione, umiliazione e rapacità.

"In early 2008, we are told, the Argentine artist dreamed of the Land of the Midnight Sun, a place he''d never laid eyes on, and over the following year from his home in Buenos Aires he depicted it copiously, insistently, one might say obsessively, seeking to ''explore what is beyond the visible and [his] direct base of knowledge''--all the while continuing not to lay eyes on it, even through photographs."--Vol. 1, p. 7.

Rehearsing war: behind the scenes of the US military forces

El primer libro de Wells Tower, Todo arrasado, todo quemado, ha maravillado a la crítica estadounidense, que no ha dudado en calificarlo como uno de los mejores debuts literarios de los últimos tiempos. Medios como el New York Times, el New York Observer o el Publishers Weekly se han apresurado a dedicar páginas a este joven autor que, con tan solo un libro, ya ha sido comparado a escritores de la talla de John Cheever o Raymond Carver. Ahora el lector español puede disfrutar de estos relatos que, protagonizados por personajes a la deriva y escritos con humor e ingenio, muestran el portentoso talento de este ya imprescindible autor.

Bundel verhalen waarin Amerikaanse mannen weinig succesvol zijn in hun relaties.

Pelos nove contos de Tudo destruído, tudo queimado, desfilam personagens tocados pela má sorte. Relações fracassadas, competições em família, traições, abandono - os gêneros mais corriqueiros de amargura estão à espreita, página a página. O jeito como pegam o leitor de surpresa, porém, está menos na sua imprevisibilidade do que na forma lírica, bem-humorada e minuciosa como são esquadrinhados.

"In early 2008, we are told, the Argentine artist dreamed of the Land of the Midnight Sun, a place he''d never laid eyes on, and over the following year from his home in Buenos Aires he depicted it copiously, insistently, one might say obsessively, seeking to ''explore what is beyond the visible and [his] direct base of knowledge''--all the while continuing not to lay eyes on it, even through photographs."--Vol. 1, p. 7.

"In early 2008, we are told, the Argentine artist dreamed of the Land of the Midnight Sun, a place he''d never laid eyes on, and over the following year from his home in Buenos Aires he depicted it copiously, insistantly, one might say obsessively, seeking to '' explore what is beyond the visible and [his] direct base of knowledge''--all the while continuing not to lay eyes on it, even through photographs."--Vol. 1, p. 7.

Tous ceux qui connaissent le territoire littéraire de la masculinité - Hemingway, Faulkner, Roth, Cheever...-reconnaîtront immédiatement le paysage des nouvelles de Wells Tower : parties de chasse, bagarres, beuveries, adultères... Comme son titre apocalyptique le suggère, ce livre combine un esprit ravageur et une prose électrique. Les familles s''y déchirent et les couples tentent péniblement de recoller les morceaux. Inventeurs ratés, rêveurs alcooliques, pères malheureux, fils rebelles : un regard insolite sur l''Amérique et l''humanité, entre humour et poésie, tendresse et violence.

Novellesamlingen handler om oppløste familier, hjelpeløse fedre og mislykte drømmere. Dette er Wells Towers debut.