At Night We Walk in Circles - Softcover

Alarcón, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594632839 ISBN 13: 9781594632839

Publisher: Riverhead Books, 2014

Synopsis

Look out for Daniel Alarcon's graphic novel, "City of Clowns," out from Riverhead Books in November 2015. "At Night We Walk in Circles" is the breakout novel from a prizewinning young writer: a surrealistic tour de force ("O, The Oprah Magazine") about one man s obsessive search to find the truth of another man s downfall. Nelson s life is not turning out the way he hoped. His girlfriend is sleeping with another man; his brother has left their South American country, leaving Nelson to care for their widowed mother; and his acting career can t seem to get off the ground. That is, until he lands a starring role in a touring revival of "The Idiot President," a legendary play by Nelson s hero, Henry Nunez, leader of the storied guerrilla theater troupe Diciembre. And that s when the real trouble begins. Nelson s fate is slowly revealed through the investigation of the narrator, a young man obsessed with Nelson s story and perhaps closer to it than he lets on. In sharp, vivid, and beautiful prose, Alarcon delivers a compulsively readable narrative and a provocative meditation on fate, identity, and the large consequences that can result from even our smallest choices."

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Praise for At Night We Walk in Circles

"Wise and engaging . . . [a] layered, gorgeously nuanced work."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Consistently compelling . . . Alarcón's smoothly polished prose [is] flecked with wit and surprisingly epigraphic phrases . . . with lines that knock the wind out of you."
--The Washington Post

"Outstanding . . . a work that creates a multilayered world and invites you to enter it."
--Los Angeles Times

"Masterful . . . a sterling novel . . . brave, thoughtful and astute . . . elegant in its construction, it feels perfectly suited to bring Alarcón's tremendous talent to a wider audience."
--The Miami Herald

"Compelling . . . an intellectual puzzle."
--The Boston Globe

About the Author:

Daniel Alarcón is the author of At Night We Walk in Circles, which was a finalist for the 2014 PEN-Faulkner Award, as well as the story collection War by Candlelight and the novel Lost City Radio. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Granta, n+1, and Harpers, and in 2010, he was named one of the New Yorker's "20 under 40." He is Executive Producer of Radio Ambulante, and teaches at the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1594632839
• ISBN 13: 9781594632839
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384