Only Sons - Moffett, Kevin
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Erscheint vorauss. 19. August 2025
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Only Sons is a warm and funny new book about personal and public spaces, fatherhood and suburbia, nostalgia and stagnation and hope. With the compression and wit, Moffett examines the comforts and disillusionments of present life while reckoning with the past. In the process, he tells a moving story of family and loss, and the way memory magnifies and minimizes feelings of grief as life continues on. At the heart of Only Sons is the narrator's relationship with his parents: his father, who died suddenly when he was a boy, and his mother, who had to figure out how to raise her son alone. Now in…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Only Sons is a warm and funny new book about personal and public spaces, fatherhood and suburbia, nostalgia and stagnation and hope. With the compression and wit, Moffett examines the comforts and disillusionments of present life while reckoning with the past. In the process, he tells a moving story of family and loss, and the way memory magnifies and minimizes feelings of grief as life continues on. At the heart of Only Sons is the narrator's relationship with his parents: his father, who died suddenly when he was a boy, and his mother, who had to figure out how to raise her son alone. Now in middle-age, the character Kevin looks back on not only what his mother endured, but the ways it shaped their relationship, and who she is now: bright and intense, full of fragile optimism and oppressive need, an unreliable conduit to the memory of a father he himself can summon only in fragments. Still, the love between mother and son is shot through with humor, vulnerability, and playfulness, and in their back-and-forth the father's presence assembles itself. Only Sons is a book about being a parent, and all the strange and bracingly personal things family-making entails. It is also a book that contains the authentic rhythms of suburbia, especially its small joys and subtle delusions.
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Autorenporträt
Kevin Moffett's work has been awarded the National Magazine Award (ASME) (multiple nominations); has been selected five times in the Best American series (Best American Short Stories and Best American Nonrequired Reading ); and has been widely anthologized and published in numerous magazines, journals, and websites. He has twice been longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize and has received a MacDowell Fellowship; a Bread Loaf Scholarship; a Pushcart Prize (a five-time nominee); the Iowa Short Fiction Award and an NEA Fellowship. His work has been praised as "melancholy and funny at the same time, with an uncanny knack for giving weighty topics... a weightlessness that manages to make them graver rather than lighter (Publishers Weekly, starred) and as a writer with "expertise, technique, imagination and wit. There doesn't seem to be much Kevin Moffett can't do" by Richard Russo. He is the author of THE SILENT HISTORY (with Eli Horowitz), FURTHER INTERPRETATIONS OF REAL-LIFE EVENTS, and PERMANENT VISITORS, as well as the Gimlet-produced scripted podcasts "The Final Chapters of Richard Brown Winters" and "Sandra." He holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and is currently a professor at Claremont McKenna College.