Bøger af Sam Savage

Piquant, elegiac, surreal short portraits of animals, human and otherwise, sketching a vision of life as a measure of loss.

A slim but powerful poetic novel that tells the expansive story of a Southern woman's memories of her mother and a vanishing world. It Will End With Us is Sam Savage's latest deep dive into the mind and voice of a character, and his most personal work yet. With the raw materials of language and remembrance, Eve builds a memorial to the mother who raised her, emotionally abandoned her, and shaped her in her own image. Eve's memories summon a childhood in rural South Carolina, a decaying house on impoverished soil, and an insular society succumbing to the influences of a wider world. ';A wonderful, absorbing novel' (Atlantic Monthly) sculpted out of an ';aphoristic scattering of memoriesone- and two-sentence stand-alones that spill isolated down the page like little gems... showing us how memory works and how we make sense of our lives, drip by drip and sensation by sensation' (Library Journal). It Will End With Us is a portrait of a place full of hummingbirds and wild irises, but also of frustration and grief. It is the story of a family tragedy, provoked by a mother's stifled ambitions, and seized by the wide-open gaze of a child. Rarely has a novel so brief taken on so much, so powerfully. ';Reading the novel can feel like admiring dewdrops on a spider's web, each paragraph and sentence glittering exquisitely.... Savage's is a book of the heart as much as the head. Which is itself an accomplishment of no small note: to recognize the arbitrary, degraded thing that is memory, and allow it its loveliness for all of that.' The New York Times Sunday Book Review ';To call the book a novel, however, fails to acknowledge the poetry in its form.' Carolina Quarterly ';A novel written in a most unusual way: a series of brief paragraphs which sometimes read like diary entries, other times like descriptions from a book of recollections. The mosaic effect is enhanced by the author's skillful use of language, his vivid, poetically-charged prose style.' Lively Arts

"e;Sam Savage [creates] some of the most original, unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction. . . . Readers are left with a voice so strong that Savage is able to derive significance from these events by sheer literary force."e;--Kevin Larimer, Poets & Writers"e;Savage's skill is in creating complex first-person characters using nothing but their own voice."e;--Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times"e;[Savage] creates one of the most intriguing stories--and one of the most vivid characters--that this reader has encountered this year."e;--The WriterSam Savage's most intimate, tender novel yet follows Harold Nivenson, a decrepit, aging man who was once a painter and arts patron. The death of Peter Meinenger, his friend turned romantic and intellectual rival, prompts him to ruminate on his own career as a minor artist and collector and make sense of a lifetime of gnawing doubt.Over time, his bitterness toward his family, his gentrifying neighborhood, and the decline of intelligent artistic discourse gives way to a kind of peace within himself, as he emerges from the shadow of the past and finds a reason to live, every day, in "e;the now."e;Sam Savage is the best-selling author of Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife, The Cry of the Sloth, and Glass. A native of South Carolina, Savage holds a PhD in philosophy from Yale University. He resides in Madison, Wisconsin.

From the author of FIRMIN, a tale of life and literature.