Brian Doyle (4) (1956–2017)
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Brian James Patrick Doyle was born in New York on November 6, 1956. He received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Notre Dame 1978. He worked for several magazines including U.S. Catholic, Boston College Magazine, and Portland Magazine, which he was editor of from 1991 until his vis mere death. His books included Mink River, Martin Marten, Bin Laden's Bald Spot, Children and Other Wild Animals, Prayer for Cashiers and Checkout-Counter Folks, and The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World: A Novel of Robert Louis Stevenson. He died Saturday from complications related to a brain tumor on May 27, 2017 at the age of 60. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Serier
Værker af Brian Doyle
A Book of Uncommon Prayer: 100 Celebrations of the Miracle & Muddle of the Ordinary (2014) 79 eksemplarer
The Grail: A Year Ambling & Shambling Through an Oregon Vinyard in Pursuit of the Best Pinot Noir Wine in the Whole… (2006) 49 eksemplarer
Children and Other Wild Animals: Notes on badgers, otters, sons, hawks, daughters, dogs, bears, air, bobcats, fishers,… (2014) 27 eksemplarer
A Sense of Wonder: The World's Best Writers on the Sacred, the Profane, and the Ordinary (2016) — Redaktør — 24 eksemplarer
Associated Works
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Bidragyder — 184 eksemplarer
True Stories, Well Told: From the First 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine (2014) — Bidragyder — 51 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- Doyle, Brian James Patrick
- Fødselsdato
- 1956
- Dødsdag
- 2017-05-27
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- New York, New York, USA
- Bopæl
- Portland, Oregon, USA
- Uddannelse
- Notre Dame University (1978)
- Erhverv
- editor
- Organisationer
- University of Portland
- Kort biografi
- BiographyBrian Doyle (born in New York in 1956) is the editor of Portland Magazine at the University of Portland, in Oregon. he is the author of thirteen books, among them the novels Mink River and Cat's Foot, the story collection Bin Laden's Bald Spot, the nonfiction books The Grail and The Wet Engine, and many books of essays and poems. He is cheerfully NOT the great Canadian novelist Brian Doyle, nor the astrophysicist Brian Doyle, nor the former Yankee baseball player Brian Doyle, nor even the terrific actor Brian Doyle-Murray. He is, let's say, the Oregon writer Brian Doyle.
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Chicago: A Novel af Brian Doyle
Best descriptions of Chicago of any book I have read, hands down.
This is an unusual book for Brian Doyle. He is imagining a novel that Robert Louis Stevenson never wrote, so he's writing in Stevenson's voice. This novel takes the form of a memoir: Stevenson is living in San Francisco, waiting for the love of his life to get divorced from her abusive husband so that he can marry her. He lives in a boardinghouse run by Mr. and Mrs. Carson, a couple who have lived fascinating lives and traveled all over the world. He recounts the stories that Mr. and Mrs. Carson tell him.
There isn't much of a plot here, and the eponymous adventures of Mr. Carson play a pretty small role in the book. There are several storylines, and no real conflict-resolution arc. Instead, it's a kind of kaleidoscopic view of San Francisco, a budding author, deepening friendships, world travels, and delightful people.
I am not a particular fan of Robert Louis Stevenson, so maybe I would have appreciated the book more if I were more familiar with his writing.
A lot of Brian Doyle still comes through: the book has his typical exuberance and love of the small things that make life delightful, and celebration of the many different ways that people can care for each other and enrich each others' lives.… (mere)
There isn't much of a plot here, and the eponymous adventures of Mr. Carson play a pretty small role in the book. There are several storylines, and no real conflict-resolution arc. Instead, it's a kind of kaleidoscopic view of San Francisco, a budding author, deepening friendships, world travels, and delightful people.
I am not a particular fan of Robert Louis Stevenson, so maybe I would have appreciated the book more if I were more familiar with his writing.
A lot of Brian Doyle still comes through: the book has his typical exuberance and love of the small things that make life delightful, and celebration of the many different ways that people can care for each other and enrich each others' lives.… (mere)
Don't hate me O Disciples of Mink River but... I did not LOVE this book. I liked it, for sure.
The prose had some magnificent moments. Most of the characters were at least interesting. I enjoyed the bits of Native American and Irish oral histories. The maical realism was lovely. The town certainly came to life... But... BUT.
There just feels like a huge BUT hanging in air there. I was not invested in enough of the characters. Some, yes. Worried Man and Cedar - absolutely - but none of the traumas or joys experienced by the characters in this affected me in the least (with the exception of a depression of one character which was beautifully described).
And I think that the overwhelming Catholicism of it just put me off by a LOT. I am not a religious person and I would go so far as to say that I can border on antireligious especially with regard to organized religion in general and Christianity in particular. Regardless, I can read books that have a religious/morality based undercurrent and not dislike them. This felt super preachy to me, though (especially with the Inch that goes out to sea).
I don't know. I'd like to give it 3.5 stars if I could. But I can't. And because I save my 4 and 5 Stars for things that really knock my socks off, I have to stick with 3 on this one.
That said, I did send 3 quotes to myself from the book - so it had plenty to offer... Like this:… (mere)
The prose had some magnificent moments. Most of the characters were at least interesting. I enjoyed the bits of Native American and Irish oral histories. The maical realism was lovely. The town certainly came to life... But... BUT.
There just feels like a huge BUT hanging in air there. I was not invested in enough of the characters. Some, yes. Worried Man and Cedar - absolutely - but none of the traumas or joys experienced by the characters in this affected me in the least (with the exception of a depression of one character which was beautifully described).
And I think that the overwhelming Catholicism of it just put me off by a LOT. I am not a religious person and I would go so far as to say that I can border on antireligious especially with regard to organized religion in general and Christianity in particular. Regardless, I can read books that have a religious/morality based undercurrent and not dislike them. This felt super preachy to me, though (especially with the Inch that goes out to sea).
I don't know. I'd like to give it 3.5 stars if I could. But I can't. And because I save my 4 and 5 Stars for things that really knock my socks off, I have to stick with 3 on this one.
That said, I did send 3 quotes to myself from the book - so it had plenty to offer... Like this:… (mere)
Wow, I read Mink River by this author, and while it is not a conventional story there did exist a story. I really struggled to get more than 100 pages into this book. Endless mindless ramblings from the narrator than don't go anywhere. Obviously this book was not for me.
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Children and Other Wild Animals: Notes on badgers, otters, sons, hawks, daughters, dogs, bears, air, bobcats, fishers, mascots, Charles Darwin, newts, ... tigers and various other zoological matters (Finalist – Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction – 2016)
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