In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper
ローレンス・ブロックによる短編で、エドワード・ホッパーの絵画に着想を得たアンソロジー『In Sunlight or in Shadow』に収録された。古い自動食堂を舞台に、記憶、犯罪、都市の孤独を端正なミステリの語りで結びつける。
作品情報
ホッパー的な光と孤独のなかで、古い街の記憶が犯罪小説へ変わる。
「Autumn at the Automat」は単独書籍ではなく、短編アンソロジー『In Sunlight or in Shadow』に収録された作品。受賞作そのものを収録する短編集として同書のハードカバーISBNを採用し、Amazonの紙書籍ASINとISBN-10を同値で補完した。
レビュー要約
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アンソロジー全体の企画性と、絵画から物語を立ち上げる作家たちの技巧が評価されている。ブロックの短編は、懐旧と犯罪小説の切れ味を組み合わせた一編として読める。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Pegasus Crime
- 発売日
- 2016-12-06
- ページ数
- 288ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 16.26 x 2.29 x 23.62 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781681772455
- ISBN-10
- 1681772450
- 価格
- 8050 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 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.
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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
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