News from the World: Stories and Essays

Resumen del libro

-Not only can Fox see, she can hear, she can feel.--Zadie Smith, Harper

This gathering of Paula Fox short work spans her illustrious career, from 1965 to the present including perfectly turned stories; pointed, engaging essays; and raw yet eloquent memoir.

Paula Fox is the author of Desperate Characters, The Widow Children, A Servant Tale, The God of Nightmares, Poor George, The Western Coast, and Borrowed Finery: A Memoir, among other books. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

-Fox style is jagged, elliptical at times and even rough. In fact it has a unique expressiveness; an industrial, not a jeweler diamond, and used for cutting, not display.- - Richard Eder, Boston Globe

-Leaves the reader with a bolstering sense of having been enriched by a view of the world at once rigorously thoughtful and deeply felt.- - The Atlantic

-The unfettered voice found in Fox wide-ranging personal essays lingers in the memory.- - Megan O'Grady, Vogue

-What makes News from the World more than the sum of its parts is Fox voice: astringent (but never cold), unsentimental (but never pitiless), exasperated (but never angry).- - David Leavitt, New York Times

Biografía del autor

Paula Fox (Nueva York, 1923-2017). Disfrutó de un gran reconocimiento como escritora de literatura infantil y juvenil fue galardonada con el National Book Award y los premios internacionales Hans Christian Andersen y Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, entre otros , mientras que sus obras para el público general recibieron una notoriedad tardía, cuando a mediados de los noventa fueron reivindicadas por Jonathan Franzen o David Foster Wallace.