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A Best Book of the Year Boston Globe Literary Hub Electric Literature

"[Marie-Helene] Bertino blurs the line between writer and magician . . . Dazzling." -Molly Young, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

Electric Literature's Best Short Story Collection of 2025
A Must-Read: The New York Times Book Review, Bustle, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire, Chicago Review of Books, Our Culture, Literary Hub, Book Riot
Long-listed for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize
Long-listed for the Story Prize
Winner of a PEN/O. Henry Prize: "Exit Zero"
Included in The Best American Short Stories: "Viola in Midwinter"

Twelve delightfully strange, haunting stories from the acclaimed, oracular author of Beautyland.
Death-shaped entities-with all of their humor and strangeness- haunt the twelve stories in Exit Zero. Vampires, ghost girls, fathers, blank spaces, day-old peaches, and famous paintings all pierce through their world into ours, reminding us to pay attention! and look alive! and offering many other flashes of wisdom from the oracle and author of Beautyland, Marie-Helene Bertino.
A Best Book of the Year Boston Globe Literary Hub Electric Literature

"[Marie-Helene] Bertino blurs the line between writer and magician . . . Dazzling." -Molly Young, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

Electric Literature's Best Short Story Collection of 2025
A Must-Read: The New York Times Book Review, Bustle, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire, Chicago Review of Books, Our Culture, Literary Hub, Book Riot
Long-listed for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize
Long-listed for the Story Prize
Winner of a PEN/O. Henry Prize: "Exit Zero"
Included in The Best American Short Stories: "Viola in Midwinter"

Twelve delightfully strange, haunting stories from the acclaimed, oracular author of Beautyland.
Death-shaped entities-with all of their humor and strangeness- haunt the twelve stories in Exit Zero. Vampires, ghost girls, fathers, blank spaces, day-old peaches, and famous paintings all pierce through their world into ours, reminding us to pay attention! and look alive! and offering many other flashes of wisdom from the oracle and author of Beautyland, Marie-Helene Bertino.
Über den Autor
Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of Beautyland, Parakeet, 2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas, and the story collection Safe as Houses. She was the 2017 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellow in Cork, Ireland. She has received the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the Mississippi Review Prize, and fellowships from MacDowell, Sewanee, and New York City's Center for Fiction, and her work has twice been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and Mississippi Review 30. She is the Ritvo-Slifka Writer-in-Residence at Yale University.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780374616472
ISBN-10: 0374616477
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bertino, Marie-Helene
Hersteller: FSG Originals
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 208 x 137 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Marie-Helene Bertino
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.04.2025
Gewicht: 0,286 kg
Artikel-ID: 132495978

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