Ein Lesebuch

by Jim Grimsley

"Wintervögel", "Das Leben zwischen den Sternen" und "Dreamboy" - Jim Grimsleys moderne Südstaaten-Trilogie hat sich einen festen Platz im Kanon der amerikanischen Literatur gesichert. Dieses E-Book versammelt Leseproben zu den drei Büchern, zu "Ellens Geschichte" und begleitende Texte.

Von Jim Grimsley außerdem in der Edition diá:

Wintervögel
ISBN 9-783-86034-511-5

Das Leben zwischen den Sternen
ISBN 9-783-86034-512-2

Dreamboy
ISBN 9-783-86034-513-9

80 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 31, 2013

About the author

Jim Grimsley published a new novel in May of 2022, The Dove in the Belly, out from Levine Querido. The book is a look at the past when queer people lived more hidden lives than now. Grimsley was born in rural eastern North Carolina. He has published short stories and essays in various quarterlies, including DoubleTake, New Orleans Review, Carolina Quarterly, New Virginia Review, the LA Times, and the New York Times Book Review. Jim’s first novel Winter Birds, was published in the United States by Algonquin Books in the fall of 1994. Winter Birds won the Sue Kaufman Prize for best first novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. He has published other novels, including Dream Boy, Kirith Kirin, and My Drowning. His books are available in Hebrew, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese. He has also published a collection of plays and most recently a memoir, How I Shed My Skin. His body of work as a prose writer and playwright was awarded the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005. For twenty years he taught writing at Emory University in Atlanta.