Gates of Eden (P.S.) - Softcover

Coen, Ethan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061684880 ISBN 13: 9780061684883

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2008

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: in November 2008. Pages: 272 in Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers In Gates of Eden. Ethan Coen exhibits on the printed page the striking twisted yet devastatingly on-target visio of modern American life familiar from his movies The world within the world we live in comes alive in fourteen azenly original tragicomic short stories-from the Midwest mob war that fizzles due to the principals' ineptness to the trials of a deaf private eye with a blind client to a fugitive's hearteaking explanation for having beheaded his wife. alarming in that it almost makes sense.

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Review

"Often funny, sometimes disturbing...Mr. Coen has sounded the jagged dissonance of the American experience."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times

"The discriminating viewer who enjoyed [Coen's] distinctive and quirky films will like the equally unconventional Gates of Eden. Coen delights in juxtaposing tone, character, and settin to comic and chilling effect."--Washington Post

"A distincitive voice and an offbeat worldview...All of these stories take place in Coen Brothers Land, a parallel universe similar to our own--except it's weirder, funnier, and better edited."--New York Times Book Review

In Gates of Eden, the co-creator of such films as Fargo and Blood Simple delivers blackly humorous and often unsettling vignettes...All the Coen brother's trademarks are here...funny...compelling stories."--USA Today

From the Back Cover

A middle-aged man beheads his wife, then calmly explains how she drove him to it ... A fat little mafioso is going to war -- in the clean, well-mannered streets of Minneapolis...A Jewish boy watches with wonder the rise and fall of a Hebrew school rebel -- and sees the sadness at the heart of his own family.... Welcome to the world of Ethan Coen, one half of the filmmaking team that has unleashed a visionary, brutal, and uproarious portrait of America in such screen classics as Fargo and Raising Arizona. Now Ethan Coen translates that vision to the printed page -- in fourteen keenly imagined, sharply etched short stories. Blending parody with pathos, making the heinous heartbreaking. Coen demonstrates his unique gift for stunningly inventive narrative, brutal irony, offbeat characters, and crackling dialogue, delivering everything you would expect from such an original imagination.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061684880
• ISBN 13: 9780061684883
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272