The Best People in the World: A Novel - Couverture souple

Tussing, Justin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0060815353 ISBN 13 : 9780060815356

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Tussing Justin

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“An engrossing tale . . . The novel ultimately succeeds because of the original voice of the narrator.” (USA Today)

“Tussing is a fine writer with a flair for imagery, and he’s crafted a melancholy, resonant story.” (Boston magazine)

“Inventive . . . Eloquent in capturing what it’s like to be alien in your own hometown. (Rocky Mountain News)

“Bleakly beautiful... Tussing skillfully crafts simultaneously visionary and demented characters... [An] odd but honest, appealing American story.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

“A fresh, original voice . . . Tussing fashions a sophisticated exploration of the allure of love.” (Des Moines Register)

“One bright book of exuberant American life . . . Tussing has a real gift.” (New York Times Book Review)

“It is very rare to find a novel so lovingly, deliberately and perfectly written . . . Read it. Now.” (Salon)

“A significant literary feat... Announces the arrival of a talented young voice on the contemporary fiction scene.” (Boston Sunday Globe)

“This novel is rich in character, and it offers scene after scene of crackling, revelatory dialogue among lovers and friends.” (Chicago Tribune)

“[A] lovely novel . . . Tussing is a witty, affecting writer.” (Washington Post Book World)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In Paducah, Kentucky, seventeen-year-old Thomas feels as reined in as the mighty Ohio, a river confined by high floodwalls protecting his small Southern hometown. But all boundaries vanish when Thomas experiences first love with Alice, his new history teacher, a woman eight years his senior—and when he meets Shiloh, a misfit vagabond and anarchist who becomes his new role model. Fleeing to rural Vermont, this unlikely trio boldly pursues freedom, intimacy, and seclusion, unfettered by commitments and rules. But a life apart from the world does not ensure a life apart from the past—and for one of them, the past that emerges will threaten tragedy.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0060815353
• ISBN 13: 9780060815356
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336