
Call Me Brooklyn
Eduardo Lago(Author)
Dalkey Archive Press
Will be published approx. on 28. November 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
364 pages
978-1-56478-860-3 (ISBN)
Description
Through an ingenious structure that jumps from narrator to narrator and spans decades, "Call Me Brooklyn" follows the life of Gal Ackerman, a Spanish orphan adopted during the Spanish Civil War and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Moving from the secret tunnels that shelter the forgotten residents of Manhattan to the studio where Mark Rothko put an end to his life, from the jazz clubs frequented by Thomas Pynchon to the bar in Madrid where we learn the truth about Ackerman's past, "Call Me Brooklyn" draws upon a rich tradition that includes Nabokov's "Pale Fire," Bellow's "Humbolt's Gift," and the novels of Felipe Alfau--a hymn to mystery and to the power of fiction.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 141 mm
Width: 213 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
504 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56478-860-3 (9781564788603)
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Eduardo Lago
Call Me Brooklyn
E-Book
10/2013
1st Edition
Columbia University Press
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Eduardo Lago was born in Madrid in 1954, and has been a resident of New York City for the last twenty-two years. He has authored numerous interviews with important North American authors, including John Barth, David Foster Wallace, and Don DeLillo, and has also translated numerous works of English literature into Spanish. Lago served for a number of years as Executive Director of the Instituto Cervantes New York, and is a cofounder, together with Enrique Vila-Matas, of the Order of Finnegans. Eduardo Lago was born in Madrid in 1954, and has been a resident of New York City for the last twenty-two years. He has authored numerous interviews with important North American authors, including John Barth, David Foster Wallace, and Don DeLillo, and has also translated numerous works of English literature into Spanish. Lago served for a number of years as Executive Director of the Instituto Cervantes New York, and is a cofounder, together with Enrique Vila-Matas, of the Order of Finnegans.