En esta prodigiosa colección de cuentos –unas narraciones intrincadas, fascinantes, profundamente poéticas y emotivas que confirman a su autor como uno de los mejores escritores de su país–, Means reflexiona...

En el retorcido mundo de «Histopía», en la década de los setenta, John F. Kennedy no ha muerto, sino que aún es presidente tras haber sobrevivido a seis intentos de asesinato, y el gobierno de los Estados...

THE SPOT is an old blacksmith shed in which a gang of men tweeze apart the intricacies of a botched bank robbery. THE SPOT is a place deep in Riverside Park, along the Hudson River, where two lovers...

At the bitter end of the 1960s, after surviving multiple assassination attempts, President John F. Kennedy has created a vast federal agency, the Psych Corps, dedicated to maintaining the nation's mental...

After winning international acclaim with his first novel, the Man Booker-nominated Hystopia, David Means returns to the form that made his name in Instructions for a Funeral, a collection of fourteen...

Lors de son retour de la guerre du Vietnam, le jeune vétéran américain Eugene Allen passe tout son temps à taper à la machine un roman intitulé Hystopia, qui sera découvert et publié après sa mort, dans...

Les personnages de David Means sont des êtres déchus, animés de désirs de revanche comme de rêves d’absolution. Prostituées, anciens du Vietnam traumatisés, fous de Dieu… Ils peuplent des lieux habités...

Quanto tempo scorre nella mente di un padre mentre osserva impotente il figlio di tre anni correre irreversibilmente verso l'argine di un fiume impietoso? Quante volte bisogna riscrivere nella memoria...

Siamo in una versione alternativa e distopica degli anni Settanta: John F. Kennedy non è stato assassinato ed è anzi sopravvissuto a diversi attentati fino a giungere a un terzo mandato, lo stato del...

Con uno sguardo cristallino paragonato dalla critica a quello di John Cheever e Raymond Carver, ma accompagnato da un personalissimo tocco dark, David Means racconta storie quotidiane di amore e abbandono,...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. In his masterful story 'A River in Egypt', David Means paints...

An extraordinary collection of short stories from an author who is set to become one of America’s leading literary voices. In the tradition of Raymond Carver or Tobias Wolff, these are all-encompassing...