In Sunlight or in Shadow
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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 raison?e, 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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1681772450
ISBN13:9781681772455
Release Date:December 2016
Publisher:Pegasus Books
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.38 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"
Customer Reviews
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Interesting concept; poor execution
Published by Bayou Boy , 7 months ago
Edward Hopper was a painter from the mid 1900's. His paintings are interesting and sometimes stark. The idea was to give a different author a particular painting and asked to write a short story using that painting as a base. Neat idea, huh? The problem arose when the authors selected have wildly different styles and concepts. Instead of this being interesting, it turned out to be jarring. You will read one story that has a romantic, dreamy ending and the next story is a hard-boiled murder mystery. Yes, some of the stories were quite good. Some were just ok. But they have nothing to do with each other except they are based on different paintings and the overall effect was somewhat chaotic.
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