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Author rebecca dinersteins debut novel, the sunlit night, landed on our most recent 5 books that need to be on your radar because of its charming quirkiness. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the sunlit night. Born and raised in new york city, she lives in new hampshire. A graduate of yale and the nyu mfa program, dinerstein knight is the recipient of a wallant award for jewish literature. Her screenplay adaptation of the sunlit nightpremiered as a feature film at the 2019 sundance film festival. The sunlit night by rebecca dinerstein a quirky debut with.
The sunlit night rebecca dinerstein, 2015 bloomsbury usa 272 pp. Her nonfiction has appeared in the new york times and the new yorker online, among others. Dinersteins 2012 poetry collection, lofoten, and her debut novel the sunlit night she grew up thinking she wanted to go into theatre. Her first nonfiction work appeared in the guardian, new york times, as well as the new yorker online. After her college relationship predictably disintegrates, 21yearold frances, an aspiring artist, accepts an apprenticeship at the viking museum in lofoten, a string of islands 95 miles above the arctic circle in norway, trading in a summer watching her parents. Rebecca dinerstein is the author of the novel the sunlit night and the bilingual englishnorwegian collection of poems lofoten. Her nonfiction has appeared in the new york times, the guardian, and the new yorker online, among. The norwegian arctic of dinersteins imagination is a strange and wonderful place, half stark wilderness and half scandikitsch paradisethe pleasure of the sunlit night derives less from yasha and francess story than from the joyfully odd landscape dinerstein conjures, in which certain absurdities begin to seem quite natural. Get it today with same day delivery, order pickup or drive up.
Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take. Dinersteins ardor for norway and its ancient legends infuses her luminous first novel, about an improbably summer romance in an artist colony in logoten, where the midnight sun came in shades of pink. Rebecca dinersteins debut novel follows the lives of two young adults from new york city to the lofoten islands in norway. You can see why, given our current predicament, i was keen to read hex hoping for something similar. Harvard book store and grubstreet welcome poet rebecca dinerstein and short story author leslie parry for a discussion of their debut novels the sunlit night and church of marvels on the sunlit night a stunning debut novelwhich jonathan safran foer calls lyrical as a poem, psychologically rich as a thriller. Rebecca dinerstein knight on curious george, jane eyre, and. Garlanded with praise from the likes of jonathan safran foer and emma straub, covering quite a literary gamut, knights new novel takes the form of three.
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