Everest Ashani Lewis Dialogue Books

A collection of diamond-sharp stories from an award-winning writer, for fans of Eliza Clark\'s She\'s Always Hungry and Carmen Maria Machado\'s Her Body and Other Parties.What happens when you reach Everest\'s peak? Is it everything you dreamed?In a magnetic follow-up to Winter Animals, Ashani Lewis\' debut collection takes a kaleidoscopic approach to desire - its obsessions, its grotesque demands and the distance it creates between us - and the strange things we stubbornly, hopefully, desperately expect from our lives.A dying woman dedicates her life to Antarctic ice; an All-American star longs for a romance that defies convention - to the detriment of his carefully curated reputation; a woman seeking her exes\' opinions on a breast augmentation takes us on a whirlwind tour of the complicated, intertwined lives of urbanites; a singer prepares for her film debut, pushing her humanity to its limits at an unusual acting school; a newlywed couple put their marriage to the ultimate test: Everest. In these twenty-one striking stories, Lewis creates a stark world of fleeting infatuations, violent compulsions, unexpected solace and the sombre ghost of memories.Praise for WINTER ANIMALS:\'Thoughtful, intelligent and beautifully written . . . Lewis is definitely a new talent to watch\' MARIE CLAIRE\'A dreamlike, piercing examination of privilege, youth and freedom\' Cecile Pin, author of WANDERING SOULS\'Lewis is superbly talented\' Katherine Rundell, author of SUPER-INFINITE and THE GOLDEN MOLE\'A remarkable novel: atmospheric as hell, beautiful and delightfully intelligent . . . Think THE SECRET HISTORY written by Raven Leilani\' Jenny Mustard, author of OKAY DAYS\'Beautiful writing\' FINANCIAL TIMES\'A glittering, dark-edged tale . . . Exhilarating and fabulous, I raced through it\' Priscilla Morris, author of BLACK BUTTERFLIES\'Compelling\' THE IRISH TIMES\'A debut full of ideas. I have the sense that this is the first of many new worlds\' TELEGRAPH Σελίδες: 160, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1112, Διαστάσεις: 15.4x15.4cm