Benjamin Taylor

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Un portrait émouvant de Philip Roth par son plus proche ami, une méditation sur lamitié et la perteEn revenant sur vingt ans damitié avec Philip Roth, Benjamin Taylor fait le portrait sans fard de celui qui fut son complice, et restitue lun des plus grands ecrivains americains dans son humanite. Au cours de ces memoires conçus comme autant dinstants de vie, le lecteur decouvre lintimite de deux hommes lies par une passion commune pour la litterature et par une loyaute totale lun envers lautre.Honnete, Benjamin Taylor temoigne dun Philip Roth erudit, inflexible, a lhumour incisif et au charme sibyllin ravageur. Avec tact et poesie, lauteur jette une lumiere neuve sur son enfance, son attachement a Newark, la petite ville pres de New York ou il a grandi, son rapport a lamour, les difficultes et les fragilites de sa vieillesse, la façon dont il envisageait son travail decriture, son uvre et la place de la litterature dans le monde.Philip Roth a eu raison dencourager Benjamin Taylor a ecrire : il y apparait dans son emouvante verite.

Son of a rabbi, budding astronomer Gabriel Geismar is on his way from youth to manhood in the 1970s when he falls in love with the esteemed and beguiling Hundert family, different in every way from his own. Over the course of a decade-long drama unfolding in New Orleans, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and the Wisconsin countryside, Gabriel enters more and more passionately and intimately into the world of his elective clan, discovering at the inmost center that he alone must bear the full weight of their tragedies, past and present. Yet The Book of Getting Even is funny and robust, a novel rich in those fundamentals we go to great fiction for: the exploration of what is hidden, the sudden shocks, the feeling at last of life laid bare.

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Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award A deeply felt, beautifully crafted meditation on friendship and loss in the vein of A Year of Magical Thinking, and a touching portrait of Philip Roth from his closest friend.I had a baseball question on the tip of my tongue: What was the name of "the natural," the player shot by a stalker in a Chicago hotel room? He gave me an amused look that darkened in-to puzzlement, then fear. Then he pitched forward into the soup, unconscious. When I entered the examining room twenty minutes after our arrival at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, Philip said, "No more books." Thus he announced his retirement.So begins Benjamin Taylors Here We Are, the unvarnished portrait of his best friend and one of Americas greatest writers. Needless to say, Philip Roths place in the canon is secure, but what is less clear is what the man himself was like. In Here We Are, Benjamin Taylors beautifully constructed memoir, we see him as a mortal man, experiencing the joys and sorrows of aging, reflecting on his own writing, and doing something we all love to do: passing the time in the company of his closest friend. Here We Are is an ode to friendship and its wondrous ability to brighten our lives in unexpected ways. Benjamin Taylor is one of the most talented writers working today, and this new memoir pays tribute to his friend, in the way that only a writer can. Roth encouraged him to write this book, giving Taylor explicit instructions not to sugarcoat anything and not to publish it until after his death. Unvarnished and affectionately true to life, Taylors memoir will be the definitive account of Philip Roth as he lived for years to come.

It is a city of seemingly irreconcilable opposites, simultaneously glorious and ghastly. And it is Ben Taylors remarkable ability to meld these contradictions into a whole that makes this the exciting and original book it is. He takes his stroll around the bay with the acute sensitivity of a lover, the good humor of a friend, and the wisdom of a seeker who has immersed himself in all aspects of this contrapuntal culture. His curiosity leads him to many byways, both real and metaphoric, and his passion for this ancient city and its people becomes, in his graceful prose and amusing anecdotes, irresistibly contagious.

The award-winning memoir of one tumultuous year of boyhood in Fort Worth, Texas, opening with a handshake with JFK, and recalling the changes and revelations of the months that followed.Winner of the LA Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, and a New York Times Editors Choice. A marvel of a bookelegant, touching, singular. Mary KarrBrief and moving . . . An elegantly written book, erudite, perceptive and at times painfully candid.Moira Hodgson, Wall Street Journal After John F. Kennedys speech in front of the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on November 22, 1963, he was greeted by, among others, an 11-year-old Benjamin Taylor and his mother waiting to shake his hand. Only a few hours later, Taylors teacher called the class in from recess and, through tears, told them of the presidents assassination. From there Taylor traces a path through the next twelve months, recalling the tumult as he saw everything he had once considered stable begin to grow more complex. Looking back on the love and tension within his family, the childhood friendships that lasted and those that didnt, his memories of summer camp and family trips, he reflects upon the outsized impact our larger American story had on his own. Benjamin Taylor is one of the most talented writers working today. In lyrical, translucent prose, he thoughtfully extends the story of twelve months into the years before and after, painting a portrait of the artist not simply as a young man, but across his whole life. As he writes, [A]ny twelve months could stand for the whole. Our years are so implicated in one another that the least important is important enough . . . Any year I chose would show the same mettle, the same frailties stamping me at eleven and twelve.

Chasing Bright Medusas should appeal to anyone novice or expert ready to explore Cathers life and work in the company of a critic so alert to the shimmering subtlety of her style and the hard years of effort that went into crystallizing it. The Washington PostA tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century and an elegant exploration of artistic endurance, as told by a lifelong lover of Willa Cathers workThe story of Willa Cather is defined by a lifetime of determination, struggle, and gradual emergence. Some show their full powers early, yet Cather was the oppositeshe took her time and transformed herself by stages. The writer who leapt to the forefront of American letters with O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Antonia (1918) was already well into middle age. Through years of provincial journalism in Nebraska, brief spells of teaching, and editorial work on magazines, she persevered in pursuit of the ultimate goalliterary immortality.Unlike Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald, her idealism was unironic, and she stood alone among the great modern authorsat odds with the fashionable attitudes of her time. Combining intricate analysis with an empathetic, lyrical voice, Benjamin Taylor uncovers the reality of Cathers artistic development, from modest beginnings to the triumphs of her mature years. His book is simultaneously an homage to her character, a warm consideration of her work, and a case being made to read Cather with renewed vigor.

Una novela sobre el rencor intergeneracional de una era, por el nuevo Philip Roth. Una mirada inteligente y humana al tortuoso proceso en el que los hijos intentan definirse a sí mismos. El libro de la venganza reune todos los atractivos de una novela de iniciacion: el transito de la adolescencia a la edad adulta, el aprendizaje torpe y en muchas ocasiones doloroso que conlleva el viaje sentimental de todo individuo. El protagonista de dicha aventura es Gabriel Geismar, hijo de un severo rabino y joven dotado de una prodigiosa mente matematica. Gabriel deja atras la ciudad donde crecio, Nueva Orleans, no sin antes perder su virginidad, y se va a estudiar a la Universidad de Pensilvania. Alli conoce a los hermanos gemelos Danny y Marghie, cuyo padre es el legendario fisico Gregor Hundert. Gabriel cae rendido ante los encantos y la sofisticacion de la familia Hundert, que a partir de ese momento adopta como propia. Desde entonces, la suerte de Gabriel queda ligada para siempre al sino de los Hundert. El libro de la venganza ha obtenido criticas muy elogiosas -se ha destacado su genialidad y su elegancia narrativa-, ha sido elegida una de las diez mejores novelas del año 2008 por Los Angeles Times, y ha sido seleccionada por la libreria Barnes & Noble como uno de los descubrimientos mas notables del año. Reseñas:El libro de la venganza es una novela elegante e intelectualmente rica. Tras su lectura, el lector queda absolutamente satisfecho. Podria leer a Benjamin Taylor siempre.Ann Patchett Encontrar el verdadero hogar en el seno de una familia ajena es el tema de esta elocuente novela. Una historia de amor inteligente, con reminiscencias de Retorno a Brideshead y a las mejores novelas de iniciacion.Beth Gutcheon La historia que Benjamin Taylor cuenta es un romance cerebral, los personajes poseen mentes que funcionan bien pero que desencadenan tragedias. Es una novela exuberante y encantadora, ademas de que rompe el corazon del lector. Taylor cuenta con un excepcional sentido de la ironia, oido para los dialogos, lirismo y una envidiable capacidad para retratar escenas dramaticas. Es un novelista genialmente dotado.Philip Roth

Una novela sobre el rencor intergeneracional de una era, por el nuevo Philip Roth.Una mirada inteligente y humana al tortuoso proceso en el que los hijos intentan definirse a sí mismos.El libro de la venganza reune todos los atractivos de una novela de iniciacion: el transito de la adolescencia a la edad adulta, el aprendizaje torpe y en muchas ocasiones doloroso que conlleva el viaje sentimental de todo individuo. El protagonista de dicha aventura es Gabriel Geismar, hijo de un severo rabino y joven dotado de una prodigiosa mente matematica. Gabriel deja atras la ciudad donde crecio, Nueva Orleans, no sin antes perder su virginidad, y se va a estudiar a la Universidad de Pensilvania. Alli conoce a los hermanos gemelos Danny y Marghie, cuyo padre es el legendario fisico Gregor Hundert. Gabriel cae rendido ante los encantos y la sofisticacion de la familia Hundert, que a partir de ese momento adopta como propia. Desde entonces, la suerte de Gabriel queda ligada para siempre al sino de los Hundert.El libro de la venganza ha obtenido criticas muy elogiosas -se ha destacado su genialidad y su elegancia narrativa-, ha sido elegida una de las diez mejores novelas del año 2008 por Los Angeles Times, y ha sido seleccionada por la libreria Barnes & Noble como uno de los descubrimientos mas notables del año.Reseñas: El libro de la venganza es una novela elegante e intelectualmente rica. Tras su lectura, el lector queda absolutamente satisfecho. Podria leer a Benjamin Taylor siempre. Ann PatchettEncontrar el verdadero hogar en el seno de una familia ajena es el tema de esta elocuente novela. Una historia de amor inteligente, con reminiscencias de Retorno a Brideshead y a las mejores novelas de iniciacion. Beth GutcheonLa historia que Benjamin Taylor cuenta es un romance cerebral, los personajes poseen mentes que funcionan bien pero que desencadenan tragedias. Es una novela exuberante y encantadora, ademas de que rompe el corazon del lector. Taylor cuenta con un excepcional sentido de la ironia, oido para los dialogos, lirismo y una envidiable capacidad para retratar escenas dramaticas. Es un novelista genialmente dotado. Philip Roth