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Awake Now, Sailor (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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AWAKE NOW, SAILOR

Cass Loyola, a Cuban merchant seaman, abandons the ocean seas to pursue
literature and a better life at a button-down college in New York City.
As he struggles to adjust to his new life, he is haunted by the woman he
left behind in Cardiff--a flame-haired Wiccan priestess who makes books
with inks made from flowers and seashells.

As he journeys from literary readings and champagne museum soirees in Manhattan to the
soft beds of women in the social register, he becomes less the social
brute, but comes to question his adopted values and fears the loss of
his soul, whose outline is drawn with inks made of flowers and
seashells.

PRAISE FOR AWAKE NOW, SAILOR

Superficially dissimilar, the Cubans and the Welsh have a lot in common: They are brawlers, romantics, and go everywhere with music in their ears. Eddie Vega’s funny, poignant, and smart debut is a bildungsroman charting its protagonist’s transformation from exile to homecoming—broken guitars, noses, and hearts scattered along the way. Vega’s intelligence is clear at every turn in his writing, but like the poetry of his tramp-traveling hero, it’s kept under wraps. This is a novel that knows novels, not one that strains and fails to be literary. It—and Vega—are the real thing.—Tristan Davies, author of CAKE (Johns Hopkins)

Eddie Vega’s wild, superbly written novel buzzes with intelligence, humor, and originality. As a reader, I was energized.—Jean Charbonneau, author of COMME UN INTRUS (Québec Amérique)

A rich and powerful novel on par with Lowry’s Under the Volcano and Mishima’s Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea.—Cortright McMeel, author of SHORT (St. Martins)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A former merchant seaman, Eddie Vega is a Cuban-born writer and journalist whose work has appeared in numerous anthologies, school textbooks, and news venues, among them, Parnassus, Little Havana Blues, Brooklyn Review, Backstage magazine, The New York Law Journal, and The Washington Post. A winner of the Irwin Shaw Fiction Prize, he also writes poetry; his poem "Translating My Grandfather's House" has become a standard reading assignment in many primary schools across the U.S. and is showcased on the Web site of the Philadelphia Historical Society. He holds degrees from Brooklyn College and Columbia University, and an honorable discharge from the United States Marine Corps. He lives in New York City.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B006UJI43A
  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Bare Knuckles Press (7 gennaio 2014)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
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  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 190 pagine
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T. Bundrick
5,0 su 5 stelle An audacious, dizzying and at times, brilliant debut!
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 26 febbraio 2012
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So a long time ago I was a casting associate in a well-known New York office which cast Broadway and off-Broadway plays as well as a little TV and film. One day one of my bosses, Meg, had this young actor in our waiting room reading a script. He was wearing two different type of shoes and had eyeglasses on, one of which was missing a lens. Meg took me aside and said, "You are not going to believe this kid. He came in to read today and he is unbelievable. The choices he makes are dizzying. If we hadn't already cast Matt Mulhern as Wykowski, Woody would get the job. Come in to see him audition for Gene (Saks, the director) and Neil(Simon) tomorrow." So I went to see Woody Harrelson audition for the understudy roles of Wykowsi and Carney. As soon as he started reading I was electrified. Meg (my boss) was right: he made these dizzying choices, going from comic to dramatic in one breath. I had never seen an audition like this before. It was more like a live performance than any audition I had witnessed. He didn't need any notes or any direction. Well that is how I felt reading Eddie Vega's AWAKE NOW SAILOR. In a matter of a few pages, Vega manages to go from the laugh-out-loud, slapstick antics of a poetry reading gone terribly wrong, to the story of his father and his unrequited love of music. Now don't get me wrong. It's not all perfect. The author chooses, perhaps a little unwisely, to enter the realms of THE PRINCESS BRIDE-type fantasy with his retelling of Cass's trip to Cardiff. However, this only seemed like an unnecessary adventure because the author was so successful in the first half of the book in setting up one of the GREAT comic tales I have recently had the pleasure to read. There is our hero, Cass, a recently graduated poet who is currently driving a gypsy cab; there is Clarice Longing, a rich, sensuous, poetry-loving millionaire; her brother Lionel Grayash, an infamously debauched poet who cuts out lines from magazines for his poems; and one of the funniest characters in recent memory, Diogenes McBain, a marine who recites lines from epic Greek battles, and who analyzes Grayash and his poetry as being useless in a battlefront situation. I was almost disappointed when Vega chose to leave these characters behind and move on to Cass's personal account of him, his father, and his delivering a package to a man named Marlin Spike in a seaside tavern in Cardiff. I hope Eddie Vega has MANY more books in the pipeline, because authors like Mr. Vega will keep fiction writing moving forward. BEST SCENE: Diogenes and Grayash confront each other at the poetry reading.....
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Elizabeth Sandeman-Gay
1,0 su 5 stelle Disappointing and misleading
Recensito in Australia il 9 giugno 2014
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I can't even see myself finishing this book. Its body has nothing to do with its title or its blurb. I'm extremely disappointed. Not only has the story nothing to do with sailors or seafarers (as I had hoped), but Cardiff, as mentioned in the blurb, is nowhere to be seen as yet - and I'm a long way into the book. I find the writing amateurish.
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R. Rutledge
3,0 su 5 stelle The artist's challenge
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 18 febbraio 2012
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A capable illustration of one man's struggle in a world that tempts, mocks, alienates and seeks to defeat those with the courage to resist the pull of the mainstream and live their truth.
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4,0 su 5 stelle The book was great. My book club read it
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 4 ottobre 2016
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The book was great. My book club read it. However, the edition purchased here was missing the last chapter. We contacted the author and he sent a lovely note and 10 signed copies of the correct version of the book.
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Omar J. Cuan
5,0 su 5 stelle Awake Now, Sailor by Eddie Vega
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 14 dicembre 2013
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I usually read non fiction. Yet this novel was fascinating. It is an account of a struggling poet trying to make a living . The question is his definition of that concept. It is an internal contest between art , for its own sake , and the daily accommodations of physical existence . I know the author personally. This gives me a unique perspective of the symbolism of the characters portrayed in the novel . Each actor in Vega's work is an extension of his perspective and personality . It is as if he was looking in a mirror and sees different images .

The main character , Castillo Loyola , known as Cass , is the poet swimming against the tide of homelessness and intellectual despair . He is saved from living in the streets by a well to do socialite , Clarisse Longing who pays his rent , introduces him to her circle and takes him to bed . Cass tacitly admires and respects what wealth can accomplish , as in this situation . Still he rejects the path required to achieve it. The outright disgust of the successful poet and brother of his new found affluent lover Clarisse, Lionel Grayash is an example . He is seen as an opportunistic artist milking the fruits his labors for success and adulation . Grayash is confronted in a poetry session by a Marine , who causes a scene at a poetry reading of which Cass took part . The twist is that Cass had met the Marine as a taxi driver . In fact all these individuals end at Clarisse's apartment in this comedy of circumstance . The also delves into Cass' troubled youth .

Cass , a Cuban immigrant , portrays the impression of his father and the broken guitar , a symbol of the need to express your art and the practical requirement of making an honest living , a theme that continues throughout the book . The instrument was kept as a trophy to a sacrificed artistic career for food and shelter. Somehow Cass found solace as a seaman , satisfying the need for work and security , while giving free reign to adventure experience and poetic inspiration . In fact the text reads like a long poem with actual poems . The main contradiction is the acceptance of Cass of life at the college , challenging the notion of art for its own sake ; requiring a college degree to become an officially announced artist blessed by society and its material rewards.
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