Thom Jones war ein amerikanischer Autor, der vor allem für seine Kurzgeschichten gefeiert wurde. Seine Werke tauchen häufig in Themen wie Sterblichkeit, Schmerz und die Suche nach Trost in einer pessimistischen Philosophie ein. Jones schöpfte stark aus seinen persönlichen Erfahrungen, einschließlich seiner Zeit bei den Marines und herausfordernder Familiendynamiken, um seine Fiktion zu gestalten. Sein ungeschönter Realismus und seine rohe Darstellung der menschlichen Psyche etablierten ihn als eine unverwechselbare Stimme in der amerikanischen Literatur.
Jones schildert in eindringlichen Geschichten das Leben von Verlierern, die mit Depression, Gewalt und Sucht kämpfen. Seine unverwechselbare Stimme beleuchtet die Kampfzonen des Lebens und die Herausforderungen, die Menschen überwinden müssen. Ein literarisches Ereignis von Rang, das andere Schriftsteller in den Schatten stellt.
A collection of short works brings readers to the disease-infested areas of Rwanda and follows the stories of hard-struggling victims, devoted doctors, and a strung-out advertising writer who does the work of God. Tour.
Twelve short stories by the National Book Award finalist of Pugilist at Rest follow the stories of mental hospital affiliates, including a Vietnam vet, a brilliant but burned out doctor, and a young amateur fighter. 25,000 first printing.
"A posthumous and definitive collection of new and selected stories by "virtuoso of the short story" (Esquire) and National Book Award finalist Thom Jones. This scorching collection from award-winning author Thom Jones features his best new short fiction alongside a selection of outstanding stories from three previous books. Jones's stories are full of high-octane, prose-drunk entertainment. His characters are grifters and drifters, rogues and ne'er-do-wells, would-be do-gooders whose human frailties usually get the better of them. Some are lovable, others are not, but each has an indelible and irresistible voice. They include Vietnam soldiers, amateur boxers, devoted doctors, strung-out advertising writers, pill poppers and veterans of the psych ward, and an unforgettable adolescent DJ radio host, among others. The stories here are excursions into a unique world that veers between abject desperation and fleeting transcendence. Perhaps no other writer in recent memory could encapsulate in such short spaces the profound and the devastating, the poignant and the hallucinatory, with such an exquisite balance of darkness and light. Jones's fiction reveals again and again the resilience and grace of characters who refuse to succumb. In stories that can at once delight us with their wicked humor and sting us with their affecting pathos, Night Train perfectly captures the essence of this iconic American master, showcasing in a single collection the breadth of power of his inimitable fiction."--Dust jacket front flap