Morgan Talty Night of the Living Rez review, recensie en informatie verhalen van de Native American en Penobscot Indian Nation schrijver. Op 5 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij And Other Stories de heruitgave van Night of the Living Rez, de heruitgave van het debuut van Morgan Talty, de Amerikaanse schrijver van Indiaanse afkomst. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.
Morgan Talty Night of the Living Rez review en recensie
- “Remarkable. An electric, captivating voice … Talty has assured himself a spot in the canon of great Native American literature.” (The New York Times)
- “These stories took me in the same way Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son did when I first read it. The comparison here is meant in every way to praise Talty as a writer, and I’m sure I won’t be the only one who says so, partially because of his emotional precision, his stark, unflinching, droll, intoxicating style, and also because of a certain drug/addiction element at play here. But as I got deeper into the work, into the book, and came to understand these lives and this community, the further away it felt from my initial comparison with Johnson, and the more familiar it felt–our Native communities being bound by countless common threads, strengths and afflictions both–and only then did I understand the distinct brilliance of Talty’s voice as its own, and ours. I knew and felt for these people. Wanted to and knew I couldn’t help them, even as they did me. There is so much brutal, raw, and beautiful power in these stories. I kept wanting to read and know more about these peoples’ lives, how they ended up where they ended up, how they would get out, how they wouldn’t. It is difficult to be so honest, and funny, and sad, at once, in any kind of work. Reading this book, I literally laughed and cried.” (Tommy Orange)
Night of the Living Rez
- Auteur: Morgan Talty (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Native American verhalen uit 2022
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: And Other Stories
- Verschijnt: 7 augustus 2025
- Omvang: 296 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 14,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van het boek met verhalen van Morgan Talty, de native American schrijver
A boy unearths a jar that holds an old curse, which sets into motion his family’s unravelling; a man, while trying to swindle some pot from a dealer, discovers a friend passed out in the woods, his hair frozen into the snow; and two friends, inspired by Antiques Roadshow, attempt to rob the tribal museum for valuable root clubs. Night of the Living Rez is an unforgettable portrayal of Indigenous community, whose arrival heralded a stand-out talent in contemporary fiction.
Morgan Talty is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation, and bon in born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He is the author of the critically acclaimed linked story collection Night of the Living Rez (USA: Tin House Books 2022; UK: And Other Stories 2025), winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Best First Book. His writing has appeared in Granta and The Guardian amongst others, and he was selected by Karen Russell as a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. Fire Exit, his first novel was published in 2024. Talty is an Assistant Professor of English in Creative Writing and Native American and Contemporary Literature at the University of Maine, Orono, and he is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA in creative writing as well as the Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Levant, Maine.
Morgan Talty (Verenigde Staten) – Fire Exit
native American roman
Uitgever: And other Stories
Verschijnt: 1 oktober 2024