Renata Adler: Pitch Dark, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

Renata Adler erzählt mit kühner Raffinesse von Kate und ihrem Wagnis, sie selbst zu sein. Denn Kate befindet sich in einer Beziehung zu einem verheirateten Mann. Und die Widersprüchlichkeiten häufen sich, im Kopf und anderswo, bis sie die junge Frau zur Flucht aus New York treiben, mitten in die pechrabenschwarze Nacht im irischen Nirgendwo. "What's new. What else. What next. What's happened here." Pitch Dark
Renata Adler's follow-up to her prize-winning novel Speedboat, is a book of questions. It is also a book of false starts, red herrings, misunderstandings, and all-too-fleeting revelations. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in her affair with a married lover, a fraught relationship that reverberates throughout the novel, as it moves from Kate's house in rural Connecticut and her New York City brownstone apartment, to a small island off the coast of Washington, and to an utterly dark road in a remote corner of Ireland. Told in Adler's celebrated fragmented style, and constructed from the bare-bones language of everyday life, Pitch Dark transcends its parts to come to the kind of self-knowledge achievable only after a relentless quest.

Klappentext

A strange, thrilling novel about desperate love, paranoia, and heartbreak by one of America's most singular writers.

"What's new. What else. What next. What's happened here."

Pitch Dark is a book about love. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in an affair with a married man. The complications and contradictions pursue her from a house in rural Connecticut to a brownstone apartment in New York City, to a small island off the coast of Washington, to a pitch black night in backcountry Ireland.

Composed in the style of Renata Adler's celebrated novel Speedboat and displaying her keen journalist's eye and mastery of language, both simple and sublime, Pitch Dark is a bold and astonishing work of art.