Leaving the Sea

Resumen del libro

From one of the most innovative and important writers of his generation, a brilliant collection of stories that showcase his gifts-and his range-as never before.

In the dystopian "Rollingwood," a divorced father struggles to hold on to his job while taking care of his ill infant son. In the hilarious "I Can Say Many Nice Things," a writer toying with infidelity teaches a brutal creative writing workshop on a cruise ship. In "Watching Mysteries with My Mother," a man spends time with his aging mother and meditates on mortality. And in the title story, told in a single breathless sentence, we watch as the narrator's marriage and his sanity unravel.

Surreal and tender, terrifying and life-affirming, Leaving the Sea brings us an utterly unique writer at the height of his powers.

Biografía del autor

Ben Marcus (Chicago, 1967) es escritor y profesor en la Universidad de Columbia. Ha publicado dos novelas, Norteamericanas ilustres (2002) y El alfabeto de fuego (2012; Catedral, 2017), y tres colecciones de relatos, The Age of Wire and String (1997), Leaving the Sea (2014) y Notes from the Fog (2018). Entre sus ensayos se encuentra Por qué la literatura experimental amenaza con destruir la edición, a Jonathan Franzen y la vida tal y como la conocemos (2005; Jekyll x{0026}amp; Jill, 2019), en respuesta al artículo Mr. Difficult. William Gaddis and the problem of hard-to-read books , de Jonathan Franzen. En 2004 editó la antología The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories y en 2015 otra antología, New American Stories. Sus relatos han aparecido en Harperx{0026} x02019;s, The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review, McSweeneyx{0026} x02019;s, Tin House o Conjunctions.