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Last Night At The Lobster
''Last Night at the Lobster'' is a novella by American writer Stewart O'Nan, published in 2007. Plot The story centres around manager Manny DeLeon and the last shift and closure of a Red Lobster restaurant in New Britain, Connecticut. O'Nan has said that he was prompted to write the book after reading about a real Red Lobster restaurant which was closed overnight and thinking about "the off-kilter relationship between corporate ownership vs. local constituents". Response Response to ''Last Night at the Lobster'' has been generally positive. A starred review in ''The Atlantic'' commended the book as a "melancholy but never bitter story of a decent guy trying to do the right thing" and O'Nan's writing as able to "coax poetry from the prosaic". Mark Athitakis writing for the ''Star Tribune'' called ''Last Night at the Lobster'' "a modern classic about shift work". Kirkus Reviews described the book as "very low-key, but haunting and quietly provocative". In his review for ''The New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stewart O'Nan
Stewart O'Nan (born February 4, 1961) is an American novelist. Life and work Background Born on February 4, 1961, to John Lee O'Nan II and Mary Ann O'Nan (''née'' Smith), he and his brother John were raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where their father worked for Alcoa. O'Nan earned his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at Boston University in 1983. While in Boston, O'Nan became a fan of the Red Sox. On October 27, 1984, he married Trudy Anne Southwick, his high school sweetheart. They moved to Long Island, New York, and he went to work for Grumman Aerospace Corporation in Bethpage, New York, as a test engineer from 1984 to 1988. Encouraged by his wife to pursue a career in writing, they moved to Ithaca, New York, and O'Nan returned to college and graduated with his M.F.A. from Cornell University in 1992. His family and he then moved to Edmond, Oklahoma, and he taught at the University of Central Oklahoma and the University of New Mexico. From 1995 to 1998, he was a writer-in-res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |