The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli
As recognized, book The Story Of My Teeth, By Valeria Luiselli is well known as the home window to open up the world, the life, and also new thing. This is just what the people now need so much. Even there are many individuals who don't such as reading; it can be a choice as reference. When you truly require the means to produce the following motivations, book The Story Of My Teeth, By Valeria Luiselli will truly direct you to the means. Furthermore this The Story Of My Teeth, By Valeria Luiselli, you will certainly have no remorse to obtain it.
The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli
Download Ebook PDF Online The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction.Named one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times , NPR, The Guardian, Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others.Praise for Valeria Luiselli:"Valeria Luiselli's lovely and eccentric first novel is . . . peppered with arresting imagery."--The New York Times"Luiselli's extraordinary debut novel Faces in the Crowd signals the arrival of major talent." --Jeremy Ellis, Brazos BookstoreWith her first novel, Luiselli has established herself as a brilliant explorer of voice, self, and art."--Josh Cook, Porter Square Books"Luiselli's Faces in the Crowd is one of the most mesmerizing debut novels in recent memory." --Diesel Bookstore BlogValeria Luiselli's Faces in the Crowd won the 2014 Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum First Fiction Award and was a National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 and Indies Next Pick.I was born in Pachuca, the Beautiful Windy City, with four premature teeth and my body completely covered in a very fine coat of fuzz. But I'm grateful for that inauspicious start because ugliness, as my other uncle, Eurípides López Sánchez, was given to saying, is character forming.Highway is a late-in-life world traveler, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the "notorious infamous" like Plato, Petrarch, and Virginia Woolf. Written in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice factory, Teeth is an elegant, witty, exhilarating romp through the industrial suburbs of Mexico City and Luiselli's own literary influences.Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Her work has been translated into many languages and has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney's.
The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli - Amazon Sales Rank: #19808 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-15
- Released on: 2015-09-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.20" h x .60" w x 5.40" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 184 pages
The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli Review “One of the most unforgettable images in any book this year is that of Gustavo “Highway” Sánchez Sánchez, the protagonist of Luiselli’s delightfully unclassifiable novel, walking around the streets of Mexico City, smiling at people with the teeth of Marilyn Monroe installed in his mouth . . . surprising and charming . . . It’s difficult not to follow wherever it takes you.”—Publishers Weekly, *starred and boxed review*“A lively, loopy experimental novel rich with musings on language, art, and, yes, teeth. . .the whole book is a kind of extended commentary on how possessions acquire value largely through the stories we tell about them. . . A clever philosophical novel that, as the author puts it, has "less to do with lying than surpassing the truth.”—Kirkus Starred Review“Luiselli follows in the imaginative tradition of writers like Borges and Márquez, but her style and concerns are unmistakably her own. This deeply playful novel is about the passion and obsession of collecting, the nature of storytelling, the value of objects, and the complicated bonds of family. . . Luiselli has become a writer to watch, in part because it’s truly hard to know (but exciting to wonder about) where she will go next.”—The New York Times"Q: Whom would you want to write your life story? A: Valeria Luiselli”—The New York Times“This highly inventive novel is narrated by a garrulous auctioneer who invents “hypertrue” stories for the objects he sells. . . . a work of immense charm and originality, written in vivid, witty prose.”—The New Yorker“[The Story of My Teeth is] proof that Valeria Luiselli is one of the most exciting new writers working today.”—Los Angeles Times“This giddy, witty, idiosyncratic novel . . . is a jubilant celebration of the act of storytelling. . . Ms. Luiselli persuasively suggests that our lives would be empty vessels, hardly worth bidding on, without the “stories that give them value and meaning.”—Wall Street Journal“The Story of My Teeth is a playful, philosophical funhouse of a read that demonstrates that not only isn’t experimental fiction dead, it needn’t be deadly, either.”—NPR“Although buoyant, Luiselli's work never seems flippant, perhaps because of her precise prose style . . . Linear at first glance, it soon opens out into a world of stories, like a mouth with one tooth from every artist in the world.”—Chicago Tribune“The Story of My Teeth’s playful re-contextualizations and detours are bound to leave you puzzled at some point—perhaps even many. . . . the book is a delightfully weird meander into art, salesmanship, Mexican culture, and experimental dentistry.” —Beijing Bookworm"What Highway (and Luiselli) is really hawking is fantasy, a sort of shared experience of faith in the improbable – the art of storytelling, essentially, to which The Story of My Teeth pays manic veneration."—The Globe and Mail (Canada)“This boggling and enchanting collaborative novel about a man who believes he has had Marilyn Monroe’s literal teeth implanted into his mouth began as a bit of art gallery catalog copy sponsored by a large juice company.”—National Post(Canada)“This charmingly slippery slip of a book, packed with fantastical allusions, reminds us that the world’s great stories can be ours for a very reasonable price."—The San Francisco Chronicle"In a delicately layered, wryly funny fashion, Luiselli is exploring the actual value of telling made-up stories.”—Huffington Post“The Story of My Teeth is a great read. The writing is equal parts elegant and chatty, with a great sense of humor.”—The Millions“Luiselli offers a bright new voice in fiction, exploring the role of story in art through her quirky protagonist, Gustavo Sánchez Sánchez . . . . Playing with different ways to tell story, The Story of My Teeth is sly, endearing, refreshing, and ever broadening.”—Bookshop Santa Cruz“Wonderful and strange, The Story of My Teeth transgresses against straightforward storytelling by witnessing and remixing to make something so fresh and new that it defies easy description. Just know that it dazzles on every page.”—Brazos Bookstore“[The Story of My Teeth] reminds us of the power and sway of great stories, especially those we tell ourselves that, by sheer persistence, we come to believe!”—Green Apple Books on Park“It’s easy to see why Valeria Luiselli was chosen by the National Book Foundation as one of the 5 Under 35 Honorees. Within just a few paragraphs of her new novel, The Story of My Teeth, you’ll be completely drawn into the weird and wonderful world of Gustavo “Highway” Sánchez Sánchez. This captivating story is filled with memorable characters and situations, but what is even more intriguing is the background story of how this work was written in collaboration with workers at a Jumex juice factory in Mexico City.”—Shawn Donley, Powell's Books“Valeria Luiselli’s THE STORY OF MY TEETH is the most likable book this year. Don’t misunderstand: likeable doesn’t mean it isn’t brilliant or original or genre-defying or any of those other great things because, indeed, it is all of those things. But it’s also Luiselli’s inventiveness, the pure joy she takes in the act of storytelling, that makes this novel so exuberant.”—Brazos Bookstore"This kind of writing—direct and gentle, affectionate and satirical, precise and imaginative, memorable and efficient—appears throughout, and the character of Gustavo is brought to life with exquisite imaginative power and beautifully judged tics and cadences. . . . It is a sad, beautiful and brilliant book. It will endure."—The National (UK)" Valeria Luiselli's new novel The Story of My Teeth explores the meaning of home through the antics of an auctioneer, told in his own hyperbolic fashion, who has decided views on the meaning of value and worth in life and art."—BBC“The Story of My Teeth is a rich, provocative meditation on authenticity, heritage and personality.”—Publisher's Weekly“Though playful and unruly, her fiction feels surprisingly warm and old-fashioned.”—Kirkus, cover feature“Training as an auctioneer, Highway hopes these and other skills will help him find the perfect set of teeth. If that sounds like an odd plot, I can only promise you that things get delightfully odder. . . Luiselli’s novel arrives in the United States from tiny Coffee House Press with considerable momentum behind it.”—The Guardian“Besides its engaging characters and plot, there’s the equally compelling backstory of this book, which Luiselli wrote in collaboration with employees of Mexico’s Jumex, an industrial giant that produces and distributes juice.”—The Guardian“Prefigured by her excellent book of essays, Sidewalks, The Story of My Teeth is playful, attentive and very smart without being for a minute pretentious. It’s Walter Benjamin without tears—sunnier, more casual and more nimble.”—The New York Times Sunday Book Review“The story of Luiselli’s teeth is positively constructive, even warm. Instead of collapsing and decomposing fragments, The Story of My Teeth reaches toward a world composed of fragments, the creative process which Highway calls — in a moment of clarity — a “postcapitalist, radical recycling . . . that would save the world from its existential condition as the garbage can of history.” —Los Angeles Review of Books“A perfectly defined universe."—Clash“The Story of My Teeth defies classification, and underscores the power of storytelling and the importance of reading.”—Virginia Quarterly Review“When reading it, I had no idea of where it was going, in the best possible way. I mean I felt like it encompassed such a wide shift in tone. There were comic moments; there were incredibly tragic moments; there were surreal moments.”—Vol. 1 Brooklyn“Luiselli has proven in both her novels that she’s willing to break novelistic conventions to simultaneously tell and deconstruct her stories. If you don’t mind some post-postmodernism with your misadventures, The Story of My Teeth is well worth bidding on.”—PANK“The following exchange, which typifies Luiselli’s willingness to lay bare artifice and to expose ‘the many layers of its making,’ captures the spirit of her work – and the charm of the writer herself.”—The White Review “The Story of My Teeth ends up containing the truths and delusions of a fabulist, elements of the picaresque, unresolved preoccupations, wonderful asides, and a whole house of mirrors constructed with so much mirth and skill that it seems to avoid the glumly highbrow label of “postmodernism.””—Words without Borders“Shuttling between the quotidian and the transcendent, between the earthly and the intellectual, all the while disrupting those very tenuous categories, is precisely what makes The Story of My Teeth so engaging.”—Slant Magazine"Playfully brilliant."—BuzzFeed"Luiselli’s experiment pays off handsomely here as she shares her stories and involves her audience in creating them, and her imagination and intelligence make them a delight for readers. For those readers who may wonder where a form like the novel can go next and how much it can change without losing its way, Valeria Luiselli’s latest effort shows one way."—Mary Whipple Reviews “The language seldom draws attention to itself, yet occasionally bursts into pyrotechnics. . . Highway emerges as an unexpectedly persuasive character, one who lingers in the reader’s imagination."—Necessary Fiction“The Story of My Teeth is an intelligent and highly funny experiment of a novel. . . . With its manifold textures, a structure reminiscent of early Michael Ondaatje, and a thoroughly entertaining, Walser-esque protagonist in Highway Sánchez, The Story of My Teeth marks another leap forward in Luiselli’s already stunning career.”—3:AM Magazine“[The Story of My Teeth is] hotly anticipated and promises to be playful, sharp, profound, and utterly unusual.”—Huffington Post"As strange and beautiful as the novel itself is the backstory to its creation — a tale that involves a juice factory, a world-class art collection, and a rather unlikely collaboration.”—Studio 360“Unlike anything in contemporary US fiction, The Story of My Teeth — as the unforgettable protagonist ‘Highway’ explains — is composed of ‘hyperbolics, parabolics, circulars, allegorics, and elliptics.’”—Flavorwire“Readers hungry for more from Luiselli will be happy with this clever variation on her style.”—Library Journal“Like her previous books, the novel Faces in the Crowd and the essay collection Sidewalks, this is a rich, eccentric, innovative work, and is sure to add to the author’s swiftly growing list of accolades.”—Rain Taxi“Forms and genres collide in this often hilarious experimental fiction from one of our most consistent young writers.”—Flavorwire“A lovely, spare and playful voice . . . The Story of My Teeth is guided by an exceptional, memorable intelligence.”—The Rumpus“The ever inventive, always incisive Valeria Luiselli presents a mosaic of fable, comedy, drama, and essay.”—Largehearted Boy“The Story of My Teeth is unlike anything you’ve ever read. With this brilliant, weird, zany second novel, Luiselli has solidified her place as one of the most interesting and imaginative minds putting words on paper today.”—Porter Square Books"The Story of My Teeth is a testament to eccentricity, to the willed inclusion of a discourse that Highway considers to be 'infinite' in its permutation sand "illuminated" in the resplendence of its references. If eccentricity is deviation from a known curve, then Luiselli has created an exceptional 'novel-essay' that irradiates beyond the orthodoxies of literary genre."—Frieze“I am so very excited about this book. Luiselli’s Faces in the Crowd was one of my favorites last year. Legend has it, Luiselli wrote The Story of My Teeth with help from workers at a Jumex juice factory in Mexico.”—BookRiot"[Luiselli writes:] "Something in me resists the ground.” It is precisely this resistance which means Luiselli’s work remains airborne, impossible to categorize and ultimately so refreshing.—Lit Hub“With this brilliant, weird, zany second novel, Luiselli has solidified her place as one of the most interesting and imaginative minds putting words on paper today.”—Lit Hub“Wonderful and strange, The Story of My Teeth transgresses against straightforward storytelling by witnessing and remixing to make something so fresh and new that it defies easy description. Just know that it dazzles on every page.”—Lit Hub“Luiselli thrills with her kaleidoscopic mix of narrative styles, metafictional riffs and Borgesian fantasy, and delivers a comic ‘dental autobiography’ and a shrewd meditation on the worth of art and literature.”—Star Tribune“It’s not every writer who is brave enough to share the stage in her own work with her translator – and a group of employees at a juice factory – but Valeria Luiselli’s got balls as well as serious talent.”—Brightest Young Things
About the Author Valeria Luiselli: Valeria Luiselli was born Mexico City and 1983 and grew up in South Africa. A novelist (Faces in the Crowd) and essayist (Sidewalks), her work has been translated into many languages and has appeared in publications including the New York Times, the New Yorker, Granta, and McSweeney's. In 2014, Faces in the Crowd was the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award. Her forthcoming novel, The Story of My Teeth, will be available from Coffee House Press in fall 2015.
Where to Download The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli
Most helpful customer reviews
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful. “In the depth of a Little Havana auction, I found them…the sacred teeth of Marilyn Monroe, slightly yellowed." By Mary Whipple If that quotation does not pique your curiosity with its absurdity, the succeeding images may. As soon as the speaker, Gustavo “Highway” Sanchez Sanchez, returns from Cuba to Mexico, he contacts the “best cosmetic dental clinic” in Mexico City and has “each of the teeth belonging to the Venus of the big screen transplanted into [his] mouth,” though he does save ten of his old teeth, the best-looking ones, for later, “just in case.” For months afterward, he walks around Mexico City smiling at his appearance in reflections, celebrating his good luck, and believing that “[his] life was a poem.”Mexican author Valeria Luiselli, an author who has just celebrated her thirty-second birthday, continues this unique story and point of view, expanding the absurdities, incorporating dozens of unique images, story lines, and sudden surprises, and transporting the reader into new and unlikely world. This work, a “novel-essay,” as she calls it, along with all its individual stories, is part of a much more ambitious effort by Luiselli to expand the boundaries of the novel and art in general, though she does this without being the least bit pompous or self-conscious, explaining her efforts within the Afterword.Highway, having begun as a guard in a juice factory, becomes a Personnel Crisis Supervisor, a job which keeps him twiddling his thumbs until he is able to take a variety of classes, travel to seminars, and eventually marry and father a son, Siddhartha. As time passes, he tries to become a contemporary dancer and actor, before he learns that being an auctioneer is a quicker way to success. He gets his first chance to practice his new trade in a benefit for the church– auctioning off the ten teeth of his own which he saved when he had Marilyn Monroe’s teeth implanted. Believing that he can restore an object’s value “through a elegant surpassing of the truth,” he provides a separate story for each of the teeth that he auctions.The book divides into sections which illustrate the several kinds of auctions that Highway has categorized, and expands the story as the reader learns about the reappearance of Highway's now-adult son Siddhartha and his revenge on his father for abandoning him and his mother.Throughout all this, the author maintains a fine literary style with many references to literature’s greatest and their works; a sensitivity to sound and spelling, which she uses for puns (and characters like Hochimin and a barbershop called Hair Charisma); and a knowledge of art, both contemporary and classical. Though the novel is a free-for-all in terms of the speed of the imagery and the shifts in focus, the novel is well organized without being limited. Luiselli’s experiment pays off handsomely here as she shares her stories and involves her audience in creating them. For those readers who may wonder where a form like the novel can go next and how much it can change without losing its way, Valeria Luiselli’s latest effort shows one way.t losing its way, Valeria Luiselli’s latest effort shows one way.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful. Do not miss it By Mario Waissbluth This novel is simply delusional, in the most wonderful sense of the word. Short, I could not stop reading it from beginning to end.It is the "march of folly" that we human beings live, travelling daily from our own misery to our greatness and back. This story, happening in my beautiful and beloved Mexico, is deeply universal, providing easy access - to lay readers such as me - to some of the best writers of all time.It is also, in itself, a megainnovation in its genre, by building a participatory story with factory workers.It is both a sad novel, and a humorous story, well written and perversely ironic, about the greatness and weaknesses of us all. I read it with a smile in my mouth, swallowing a playful sarcasm or a surprise every few lines.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Magically real. Wonderful book. By Robert R. Stanley I read about this book in the New and Noteworthy section of The New Yorker. I love Latin American writers. The very short blurb sounded like the writing might be similar to that of the recently deceased Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the master story teller and Nobel Prize winner. Valeria Luiselli's imagination works overtime. It's the wonder she had a thought left in her head after writing this little jewel. I was so entranced I couldn't put it down and so I read it in one sitting. The story must have originated in a dream the author had. The whole book is so delightfully absurd that it had to be hatched from a dream. One more example of the "magical realism" that Latin American authors are so famous for.
See all 37 customer reviews...
The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli
The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli PDF
The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli iBooks
The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli ePub
The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli rtf
The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli AZW
The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli Kindle
The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli
The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli
The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli
The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli
