The Bar at Twilight
“Winter, 1965” captures a young writer’s anxiety and hope inside the cold atmosphere of New York. In The Bar at Twilight, it becomes a vivid portrait of creative longing and everyday loneliness.
Work Information
A young writer’s anxiety and hope drift through winter in New York.
Through dialogue and fine-grained scene setting, the story lightly catches the uncertainty of someone in the middle of making art and reveals the solitude of writing itself.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Bellevue Literary Press
- Published
- 2022-05-10
- Pages
- 288 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 12.7 x 1.91 x 19.05 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781954276031
- ISBN-10
- 1954276036
- Price
- 3527 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Metaphysical
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE An incomparable storyteller serves up an enchanting concoction of art, love, and longing In fifteen masterful stories, Frederic Tuten entertains questions of existential magnitude, pervasive yearning, and the creative impulse. A wealthy older woman reflects on her relationship with her drowned husband, a painter, as she awaits her own watery demise. An exhausted artist, feeling stuck, reads a book of criticism about allegory and symbolism before tossing her paintings out the window. Writing a book about the lives of artists he admires—Cezanne, Monet, Rousseau—a man imagines how each vignette could be a life lesson for his wife, the artist he perhaps admires the most. Whether set in Tuten’s beloved Lower East Side, Rome’s Borghese Gardens, or a French seaside resort, these stories shift seamlessly between the poignancy of memory into the logic of fairytales or dreams, demonstrating Tuten’s exceptional ability to transmute his passion for art and life to the page.
Frederic Tuten is the award-winning author of five novels, the memoir My Young Life , and two short story collections, Self-Portraits: Fictions and The Bar at Twilight . Among other honors, Tuten has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Distinguished Writing. He lives in New York.
Reviews
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These wonderful stories are as fascinating as they are varied. I believe Frederic Tuten has developed a method of combining emotions alchemically - a tone of playful sorrow, for example, infuses much of his work. Or the Ineluctable Authority of the Ludicrous - Alfred Jarry, move over and make room for Plato. There is a French flavor, as in the story wherein the narrator drives his partner crazy by speaking French, and a Russian flavor, the fragrance of Gogol's The Nose, in the horse's tale. Together they follow Mark Twain's injunction, the lightning of the right word, yet also encompass the quantum delicacy of the lightning bug. DO not miss the collection! - Jim Drummond
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This is a beautiful addition to the Tuten canon. If you’ve not read Tuten before, you are in for a treat. His writing is generous, playful, intelligent, and his prose strikingly beautiful. It’s like nothing else you’ve read. It renews in my mind the raisin d’etre of literature. A very special reading experience. When I finished I wanted to start it all over again.
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This is a beautifully imaginative and evocative collection of short stories by the literary master Frederic Tuten. It is so wonderful to settle in and enjoy these short stories, each of them a creative gem in its own right.
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Gave it to the library for someone else
Related Literary Awards
- O. Henry Award Edition 95 (2016) ・Winner