Anthony Marra
ANTHONY MARRA is the winner of a Whiting Award, Pushcart Prize, and the Narrative Prize. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena won the National Book Critics Circle's inaugural John Leonard Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction, as well as the inaugural Carla Furstenberg Cohen Fiction...
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ANTHONY MARRA is the winner of a Whiting Award, Pushcart Prize, and the Narrative Prize. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena won the National Book Critics Circle's inaugural John Leonard Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction, as well as the inaugural Carla Furstenberg Cohen Fiction Award. Marra's novel was a National Book Award long list selection as well as a shortlist selection for the Flaherty-Dunnan first novel prize. In addition, his work has been anthologized in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he teaches as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction. He has lived and studied in Eastern Europe, and now resides in Oakland, CA. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is his first novel.
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Wow.I love books that feature connected short stories. That said, I wish I had kept notes of the characters' names from the beginning, because so many reappear much later in the book, and it took me a bit to wrap my head around who was who. Because not everyone knows everyone else. I feel like maybe...
What a fantastic book! Marra weaves a fantastic tale about our search for humanity and connection in a bizarre world gone mad. He draws a world that is at once mundane and surreal. He manages to show our persistent striving for understanding in a world that defies understanding, and his chosen setti...
I should preface this by saying that I loved A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, so I was fully prepared for the beauty and desolation this title promised. This is a collection of short stories that Marra has woven together with the lives of its characters connected in sometimes subtle and unexpecte...
This is a series of interconnecting short stories which take place in Russia, spanning the years of 1937 to 2013, even including a story entitled “Outer Space, Year Unknown”. The first four stories comprise “Side A”, with “The Tsar of Love and Techno” being the Intermission story, with the next four...
For me, this was a very chilling, compelling, sad, touching and moving story of life in the Soviet Union over several decades. There were not a lot of happy times in this tale. There was, however, a lot of loss.A man whose job it is to take enemy's faces out of pictures or to keep Stalin's face look...
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