by Paul West
First published 2012
Paul West brings decades of literary mastery to this 2012 work of fiction. The author has earned recognition from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, receiving their Literature Award in 1985. His distinguished career includes a Lannan Prize for Fiction in 1993 and the Grand-Prix Halpèrine-Kaminsky Prize for Best Foreign Book the same year. The New York Public Library named him a Literary Lion, while the French government honored him as a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. West's novel "The Tent of Orange Mist" came close to winning the 1996 National Book Circle Award in Fiction and earned Nobel Prize consideration. With fifty published books behind him, West demonstrates his continued commitment to literary excellence in "The Left Hand Is the Dreamer."
Genres: literary-fiction, american-fiction, 20th-century, biographical-fiction, 21st-century, academic
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Period: 2012
228 pages · Paperback · Onager Editions