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Alexi Zentner (born Aug. 29, 1973, in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian-American short story writer, and novelist. He graduated from Grinnell College with a BA and Cornell University with an MFA. He taught at Cornell University. He's now on the faculty at Binghamton University. His fiction has also appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Narrative Magazine (where it was awarded the 2008 Narrative Prize). He lives in Ithaca, New York, with his wife and two daughters.
Author Alexi Zentner is the author of COPPERHEAD, TOUCH & THE LOBSTER KINGS. Also writes as Ezekiel Boone. I think readers don’t always understand that many books don’t fit neatly into one slot or the other. y. Even when I was in elementary and middle school, my parents never set limits on what I could read.
Alexi Zentner unspools the story of boys who think they’re men, of the entrenched thinking behind a split-second . I can imagine the novel sparking heated discussions in high school English classes, as well as in book groups for the more mature.
Alexi Zentner unspools the story of boys who think they’re men, of the entrenched thinking behind a split-second decision, and asks whether hatred, prejudice, and violence can ever be unlearned. Excruciatingly honest and exceptionally brav. beautifully rendered coming of age stor. tylistically brilliant, fast-paced, and well-told. New York Journal of Books. I can imagine the novel sparking heated discussions in high school English classes, as well as in book groups for the more matur. .a pretty unsparing story about how one's fate is determined so much by the random luck of one's family, but it's also merciful enough to leave the exit door of reinvention cracked open.
Alexi Zentner was born in Ontario, Canada, and currently lives in Ithaca, New York, with his wife and two daughters. He has had short stories published in various American magazines and anthologies, including The 2008 O. Henry Prize Stories, The Atlantic Monthly and Tin House
Alexi Zentner was born in Ontario, Canada, and currently lives in Ithaca, New York, with his wife and two daughters. Henry Prize Stories, The Atlantic Monthly and Tin House. Touch is his first novel.
He is also the author of the internationally acclaimed novels, THE LOBSTER KINGS, and TOUCH
Author Alexi Zentner, who is Jewish, says he's been thinking about these topics his whole life. His parents, Canadian social workers and activists, saw their office firebombed by white supremacists twice when he was a teenager. He is also the author of the internationally acclaimed novels, THE LOBSTER KINGS, and TOUCH. Under the pseudonym Ezekiel Boone, Alexi is the author of the Alexi Zentner lives in upstate New York with his wife and children.
There is no sophomore slump here: Zentner has delivered a follow-up that is just as literary as Touch, but even more commercial, with more action, and more romance. The Lobster Kings takes place on fictional Loosewood Island, somewhere off Maine and the Maritimes, and a ruggedly pastoral outpost claimed by both the United States and Canada.
But the year I was eleven, the float did not occasion much change in our daily life.
But the year I was eleven, the float did not occasion much change in our daily life e daily when our father would return, it felt like it. When the men came back from the float, the new priest who had come to replace Father Hugo accompanied them.
Электронная книга "Touch: A Novel", Alexi Zentner. Alexi Zentner4 апреля 2011 г. W. Norton & Company. Переключиться на аудиокнигу. Эту книгу можно прочитать в Google Play Книгах на компьютере, а также на устройствах Android и iOS. Выделяйте текст, добавляйте закладки и делайте заметки, скачав книгу "Touch: A Novel" для чтения в офлайн-режиме.
"A breathtaking debut . . . filled with ghosts and demons who lurk in the Canadian north woods." ―Andrew Abrahams, People
On the eve of his mother’s death, Stephen comes home to Sawgamet, a logging town where the dangers of working in the cuts are overshadowed by the dark mysteries and magic lurking in the woods. Thirty years after the mythical summer his grandfather returned to town on a quixotic search for his dead wife, Stephen confronts the painful losses in his own life.