Jonathan Raban (1942–2023)
Autor/a de Bad Land: An American Romance
Sobre l'autor
Jonathan Raban, author of Passage to Juneau, brings eloquent intellect and wry wit to his exploration of the American scene. Written over the past two decades, roughly the span of Raban's residence in his adopted city of Seattle, these essays delve into what it means, as immigrant, to feel rooted mostra'n més in America. Driving Home charts a course through the Pacific Northwest, American history, and current events as witnessed by a keenly observant visitor who is able to glean meanings and patterns that have become invisible to the natives. Raban spends much time on, near, and in water, and his ruminations on sailing and the sea are a welcome thread. Whether the topic is other writers or various painters and explorers, or the patrons of a Montana bar, who have engaged with our mythical and actual landscape, Raban has a visitor s eye for the absurd, and his tone is intimate, never nostalgic, and always fresh. mostra'n menys
Obres de Jonathan Raban
"The Truth about Terrorism" 1 exemplars
'Divine Drudgery' in NYRB 58/8, 12 May 2011 [review of David Foster Wallace bks - mostly 'The Pale King'] 1 exemplars
Liberty 1 exemplars
I due soci 1 exemplars
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- Nom normalitzat
- Raban, Jonathan
- Data de naixement
- 1942
- Data de defunció
- 2023-01-17
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- England
UK - Lloc de naixement
- Norfolk, England
- Lloc de defunció
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Educació
- University of Hull (BA Hons.)
- Professions
- writer
- Relacions
- Johnson, Bridget (wife, 1964, dissolved 1970s)
Cuthbert, Caroline (wife, 1985, dissolved 1990)
Lenihan, Jean (wife, 1992, dissolved 1997)
Raban, Julia (daughter) - Organitzacions
- University of Hull (Lecturer in English)
Lecturer, University of East Anglia. - Premis i honors
- The Stranger Genius Award (Literature ∙ 2006)
1981 Heinemann Award and Thomas Cook Travel Award for Old Glor
'90 Thomas Cook award for Hunting Mister Heartbreak.
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Booker Prize (1)
Premis
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Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 29
- També de
- 13
- Membres
- 4,872
- Popularitat
- #5,159
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 97
- ISBN
- 160
- Llengües
- 7
- Preferit
- 23
- Pedres de toc
- 133