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The Ballad of Big Feeling - by Ari Braverman (Paperback)

The Ballad of Big Feeling - by  Ari Braverman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><b>Braverman spins images that pull that perfect trick of making the familiar feel fresh... It's a thrill to see that language can still be made to help us feel the rush of life anew. ---Lynn Steger Strong, </b><b><i>New York Times Book Review</i></b></b> <p/>The woman lives on a cul-de-sac with her lover and her dog. She is smart and sensible. She buys groceries and goes to work. And she finds herself reliving her childhood memories while she waits--for what, she is not sure. <p/>In the tradition of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, The Ballad of Big Feeling reveals the mind of a woman perched before middle age and confronting the hidden contradictions and intricacies of everyday life. <p/>In the hands of an exciting new writer, Ari Braverman, it's a tale both spare and spacious, textured and poetic, frustrating and funny -- a delicately crafted volume that will linger in the mind of the reader long after they've put it down. It is, in short, a startling and assured debut.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Brilliant, quietly explosive and slyly purposeful, like a controlled avalanche, <i>The Ballad of Big Feeling</i> rolls coolly downhill, gaining momentum and comic energy with every breathtaking page. It's an auspicious debut." <b>--Paul Beatty, author of <i>The Sellout</i></b> <p/>"I can't think of a young writer more exactingly hilarious and insightful than Ari Braverman. She writes short little prose bombs that unleash wit and insight and a kind of addictive strangeness, showing that she knows and sees our disturbing world and, amazingly, can bring it perfectly to life on the page." <b>--Ben Marcus, author of <i>The Flame Alphabet</i></b> <b><i><br></i></b> <br> <i>The Ballad of Big Feeling</i> dug itself right into my bones on the very first page, with a voice and precision that feels both intimately familiar and achingly strange. It's the most aptly-named book I can think of: lyrical and rich, big-hearted and bold.<b> --Juliet Escoria, author of <i>Juliet the Maniac</i></b> <p/>"An exquisitely observed debut--funny, horny, singular and sad--and gleaming with sentences that deliver welcome shivers of recognition. With big feeling and fine detail, Braverman pays radiant attention, and in so doing refashions the way a person might see the world." <b>--Hermione Hoby, author of <i>Neon in Daylight</i></b> <p/><i>The Ballad of Big Feeling</i> is an artful book about what it means to be constrained--trapped, really--in an irascible, untidy form. Braverman's debut proves-- lyrically, forcefully-- that for all of our delusions, we are just mammals. <b>--Lee Matalone, author of <i>Home Making</i></b> <p/> "Braverman spins images that pull that perfect trick of making the familiar feel fresh [..] It's a thrill to see that language can still be made to help us feel the rush of life anew." <b>--Lynn Steger Strong, <i>New York Times Book Review</i></b> <p/> Braverman's debut novel is committed to exploding the interior voice that festers inside human loneliness . . .[she] poignantly makes an adventure out of the mundanity of life in a body. . .The roaring quietness of this book is one that is just right for this moment. <b>--<i>Believer Magazine</i></b> <br><b><i><br></i></b> <b><i> </i></b><i>The Ballad of Big Feeling</i> reveals, in intimate and surprising detail, the strangeness of the everyday. Braverman's prose is associative, a feat of compression, characterized by a keen attention to affect, relationships, the emotional charge of objects, and the natural world. --<i><b>BOMB Magazine</b></i> <p/>An original, compelling, and enigmatic first novel. <i><b>--Kirkus</b></i> <br><i><b><br></b></i> Braverman's poetic, spare writing is perfect for the story, allowing readers to draw their own conclusions and feel their own feelings, especially in all the things left unsaid. <b>--<i>Booklist</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Ari Braverman is the winner of the 2012 James Knudsen Prize in Fiction and a finalist for the 2017 White Review Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in leading literary journals including <i>Guernica</i> and <i>Bomb.</i> This is her first novel.

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