In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper
A short story by Lawrence Block included in In Sunlight or in Shadow, an anthology inspired by paintings by Edward Hopper. Set around an old automat, it links memory, crime, and urban loneliness through polished mystery storytelling.
Work Information
Within Hopper-like light and loneliness, memories of an old city turn into crime fiction.
"Autumn at the Automat" is not a standalone book but a story collected in the anthology In Sunlight or in Shadow. Because that anthology contains the award-winning work, its hardcover ISBN is used, with the paper-book ASIN and ISBN-10 completed as the same value.
Review Summaries
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The anthology is valued for its concept and for the writers' skill in turning paintings into stories. Block's contribution reads as a piece that combines nostalgia with the sharpness of crime fiction.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Pegasus Crime
- Published
- 2016-12-06
- Pages
- 288 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 16.26 x 2.29 x 23.62 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781681772455
- ISBN-10
- 1681772450
- Price
- 8050 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Anthologies & Literary Collections/General
A truly unprecedented literary achievement by author and editor Lawrence Block, a newly-commissioned anthology of seventeen superbly-crafted stories inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper, including Jeffery Deaver, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, Lee Child, and Robert Olen Butler, among many others. “Edward Hopper is surely the greatest American narrative painter. His work bears special resonance for writers and readers, and yet his paintings never tell a story so much as they invite viewers to find for themselves the untold stories within.” So says Lawrence Block, who has invited seventeen outstanding writers to join him in an unprecedented anthology of brand-new stories: In Sunlight or In Shadow . The results are remarkable and range across all genres, wedding literary excellence to storytelling savvy. Contributors include Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Olen Butler, Michael Connelly, Megan Abbott, Craig Ferguson, Nicholas Christopher, Jill D. Block, Joe R. Lansdale, Spider Robinson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Warren Moore, Jonathan Santlofer, Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, and Lawrence Block himself. Even Gail Levin, Hopper’s biographer and compiler of his catalogue raisonée, appears with her own first work of fiction, providing a true account of art theft on a grand scale and told in the voice of the country preacher who perpetrated the crime.
Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning mystery and suspense fiction for half a century. His novels include The Girl With the Deep Blue Eyes , The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons , Hit Me , and A Drop of the Hard Stuff , featuring Matthew Scudder. He's well known for his books for writers, including the classic Telling Lies For Fun & Profit and Write for Your Life , and he has recently published The Crime of Our Lives , a collection of his writings about the mystery genre and its practitioners.
Reviews
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優れた短篇
アメリカの現代作家の短篇集で、思わぬ展開のある 面白い作品ばかりでした。 オーディオブックは、朗読が、いまいちでしたが 内容は濃いと思いました。
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Amazing
It is really a great collection of short stories inspired by Edward Hopper paintings. My favorite is the one from Stephen King!
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Such a nice way to look at Hopper’s paintings!
Can’t say that I liked all the stories, but I had a lot of fun reading and thinking about the paintings. The book arrived fast and well packed and I loved it!
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Very enjoyable
Most enjoyable
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Very best short stories
Amazing. It’s like these writers were deliberately trying to compete with each other other with their short stories. Very inventive.
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Highly imaginative blend of art and literature
Author Lawrence block has gathered together some of his friends (i.e. Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child - nice friend to have) and asked them to weave stories based on 18 paintings by the great American artist Edward Hopper. It falls to Michael Connelly (Bosch, The Lincoln Lawyer) to 'paint' a story around "Nighthawks", the acknowledged Hopper masterpiece. A wonderfully creative meeting of Art & Literature
Related Literary Awards
- Edgar Award Edition 72 (2017) ・short story prize