In the middle of an otherwise nondescript play in a "twelve-dollar-a-seat" downtown warehouse theater, an actress is staggered by a violent slap in he face from her co-star. As she gazes into the audience with a bloody nose, immediately a connection is formed with a middle-aged man, drawn in by this unmistakably over-the-line violence, seated in the eighth row. Almost against his will, with disconcerting speed and a revelatory power that unearths buried memories from their pasts, her life will invade his own. With its nuanced and compelling story of love and discovery, continually startling literary innovations, and lucid, omnidirectional prose, Actress in the House is a haunting and resonant reading experience from one of the most esteemed voices in contemporary fiction. "Ingenious and compelling...McElroy escorts us expertly through concentric circles of information."
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Joseph Prince McElroy
Joseph McElroy é um escritor americano, conhecido por seus romances, contos e ensaios. A escrita de McElroy é frequentemente agrupada com a de William Gaddis e Thomas Pynchon por causa da qualidade enciclopédica de seus romances, particularmente as 1191 páginas de <i>Women and Men</i> (1987). Ecos do trabalho de McElroy podem ser encontrados no de Don DeLillo e David Foster Wallace. O trabalho de McElroy frequentemente reflete sobre a preocupação com o funcionamento da ciência na sociedade americana. Ela recebeu o Prêmio de Literatura da Academia Americana de Artes e Letras e bolsas de estudo das Fundações Guggenheim, Rockefeller e Ingram Merrill, e do National Endowment for the Arts.
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