
Taipei
Kirby Heyborne
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Description
Product Details
Publisher | Tantor Audio |
Publish Date | September 16, 2013 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9798200055036 |
Dimensions | N/A |
About the Author
Kirby Heyborne is a musician, actor, and professional narrator. Noted for his work in teen and juvenile audio, he has garnered over twenty Earphones Awards. His audiobook credits include Jesse Kellerman's The Genius, Cory Doctorow's Little Brother, and George R. R. Martin's Selections from Dreamsongs.
Reviews
"[A] novel about disaffection that's oddly affecting...for all its emotional reality, Taipei is a book without an ounce of self-pity, melodrama, or posturing."
-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)""Mr. Lin casts a spell in Taipei...[It is] his strongest book. At its best, it has distant echoes of early Hemingway, as filtered through Twitter and Klonopin: it's terse, neutral, composed of small and often intricate gestures...it's about flickers of perception, flickers that the author catches as if they were fireflies."
-- "New York Times"[A] modernist masterpiece...True, his characters are young people living in Brooklyn. And he writes about the Internet. But we should stop calling Tao Lin the voice of his generation. Taipei, his new novel, has less to do with his generation than with the literary tradition of Knut Hamsun, Ernest Hemingway, and Robert Musil...I cheerfully wrote "Proust" in the margin early on--because the hero, a young writer named Paul, takes such a meta attitude toward his own memories."
-- "New York Observer"Taipei is a book without an ounce of self-pity, melodrama, or posturing, making the glacial Lin the perfect poster child for a generation facing-and failing to face-maturity.-- "Publishers Weekly Starred Review"
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