Adam Haslett

Román Adama Hasletta vytváří mnohovrstevný pohled na moderní americkou společnost, její principy a fungování. Vyslovuje se k vysoce aktuálním tématům, jako jsou například pravděpodobné kořeny světové hospodářské krize, a také postihuje hlavní rysy moderní

Životy plné proher a zklamání, životy, které se uzavírají samy do sebe jako do ulity. A právě svět, který se v nich ukrývá, je tématem první knihy povídek Adama Hasletta, knihy plné trýzně a napětí, jež sklidila obdiv kritiky a mimo jiná ocenění se stala finalistkou Pulitzerovy ceny. Postarší vynálezce, překypující manickou aktivitou, se pokouší prolomit odcizení ve vztahu se svým homosexuálním synem. Nešťastný chlapec nalezne úlevu od svých problémů v tom, že se nechává týrat násilnickým spolužákem. Aristokratická dáma ve středních letech, dlouholetá pacientka psychiatrické léčebny, se stane důvěrnicí nešťastně zamilovaného pubertálního chlapce, který v léčebně pracuje jako dobrovolník.

TOP 10 NOVELS OF THE YEAR -- TIME, Newsday TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2016 -- San Francisco Chronicle 20 BOOKS THAT DEFINED OUR YEAR -- Wall Street Journal ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS: Barnes & Noble, BookPage, BuzzFeed, Elle, Financial Times, Huffington Post, Kirkus, NPR, Refinery29, Seattle Times, Shelf Awareness, WBUR's On Point Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award and the Andrew Carnegie Medial for Excellence in Fiction Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction Prize, the Kirkus Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize "Haslett is one of the country's most talented writers, equipped with a sixth sense for characterization" -Wall Street Journal "Ambitious and stirring . . . With Imagine Me Gone, Haslett has reached another level." --New York Times Book Review New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most? When Margaret's fiance, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Over the span of decades, his younger siblings -- the savvy and responsible Celia and the ambitious and tightly controlled Alec -- struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled and precarious existence. Told in alternating points of view by all five members of the family, this searing, gut-wrenching, and yet frequently hilarious novel brings alive with remarkable depth and poignancy the love of a mother for her children, the often inescapable devotion siblings feel toward one another, and the legacy of a father's pain in the life of a family. With his striking emotional precision and lively, inventive language, Adam Haslett has given us something rare: a novel with the power to change how we see the most important people in our lives.