The Lobster Kings: Library Edition

Zentner, Alexi

ISBN 10: 1482990946 ISBN 13: 9781482990942

Publisher: Blackstone Pub, 2014

Synopsis

A story inspired by the plot of "King Lear" relates the fortunes of a family who has reaped the sea's bounty on Loosewood Island for three hundred years, but pays for it with the loss of every firstborn son.

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Review:

Advance praise for "The Lobster Kings"
"So big on legend, rich in style and crowded with the kind of people who simultaneously seduce you and tear at the foundations of your understanding, it makes you want to drop your life, call the movers and buy a one-way ticket to Zentner's universe. "The Lobster Kings" confirms what "Touch" already prophesied: Alexi Zentner is one of the greatest literary architects and mythmakers working today."
--Tea Obreht, author of "The Tiger's Wife"

"Just as compelling as the dragons, mermaids and selkies that may inhabit the waters of Loosewood Island are its year-round residents, besieged by tourists, art historians and drug smugglers. With a knowing nod to Lear, "The Lobster Kings" follows a patriarch's fading powers and a dynasty's uncertain future in the face of a changing world. As in his wonderful debut, "Touch", Alexi Zentner gives us a family saga that contains the origin story of a magical, once timeless place where the past and present must inevitably collide."
--Stewart O'Nan, author of "Last Night at the Lobster" and "Emily, Alone"

Advance praise for "The Lobster Kings"
"So big on legend, rich in style and crowded with the kind of people who simultaneously seduce you and tear at the foundations of your understanding, it makes you want to drop your life, call the movers and buy a one-way ticket to Zentner's universe. "The Lobster Kings" confirms what "Touch" already prophesied: Alexi Zentner is one of the greatest literary architects and mythmakers working today." Tea Obreht, author of "The Tiger's Wife"
"Just as compelling as the dragons, mermaids and selkies that may inhabit the waters of Loosewood Island are its year-round residents, besieged by tourists, art historians and drug smugglers. With a knowing nod to Lear, "The Lobster Kings" follows a patriarch's fading powers and a dynasty's uncertain future in the face of a changing world. As in his wonderful debut, "Touch", Alexi Zentner gives us a family saga that contains the origin story of a magical, once timeless place where the past and present must inevitably collide." Stewart O'Nan, author of "Last Night at the Lobster" and "Emily, Alone"

So big on legend, rich in style and crowded with the kind of people who simultaneously seduce you and tear at the foundations of your understanding, it makes you want to drop your life, call the movers and buy a one-way ticket to Zentner's universe. The Lobster Kings confirms what Touch already prophesied: Alexi Zentner is one of the greatest literary architects and mythmakers working today. --Tea Obreht, author of "The Tiger s Wife "

The Lobster Kings is a powerhouse of a novel. Alexi Zentner proves himself to be a writer of the first rank with this story of one woman's determination to carry on her family's legacy in the face of the encroaching pressures of modernity and the strictures of a patriarchal culture. The bold and endearingly stubborn Cordelia Kings is a protagonist we can root for, flaws and all, as she struggles to reconcile the past with the present. --Ben Fountain, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Billy Lynn s Long Halftime Walk"

Just as compelling as the dragons, mermaids and selkies that may inhabit the waters of Loosewood Island are its year-round residents, besieged by tourists, art historians and drug smugglers. With a knowing nod to King Lear, The Lobster Kings follows a patriarch's fading powers and a dynasty's uncertain future in the face of a changing world. As in his wonderful debut, Touch, Alexi Zentner gives us a family saga that contains the origin story of a magical, once timeless place where the past and present must inevitably collide. --Stewart O'Nan, author of Last Night at the Lobster and Emily, Alone"

Brutal and beautiful. "

An overridingly strong novel. --Autumn Markus"

Starred review. Award-winning Zentner s literary tour de force takes hold of the reader s imagination and doesn t let go. Extraordinary storytelling not to be missed. "

Well worth a summer read; in fact, it s likely the reader will want to devour it again and again. --Autumn Markus"

The Lobster Kings is well worth a summer read; in fact, it's likely the reader will want to devour it again and again. --Autumn Markus

About the Author:

ALEXI ZENTNER's fiction has appeared in the "Atlantic Monthly," "Narrative Magazine," "Tin House," "Glimmer Train," "The Southern Review, Orion Magazine" and other publications. His short story "Touch" was featured in "The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008" where it was chosen by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as a jury favourite. His short story "Trapline" was awarded the 2008 Narrative Prize and named to the "Best American Short Stories 2009" list of "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2008." His short stories "Touch" and "The Adjuster" were also selected for "special mention" in the 2008 Pushcart Prize anthology. "Touch "was published in spring 2011 in the USA by W.W. Norton, and in the UK by Chatto & Windus." Touch "will also be published in Italy, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Israel, Korea, Brazil, Denmark and Poland. Alexi Zentner was born in Kitchener, Ontario, and currently lives in Ithaca, New York, with his wife and 2 daughters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Pub
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1482990946
• ISBN 13: 9781482990942
• Binding: Audio CD