Visitation Street - Couverture rigide

Pochoda, Ivy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0062249894 ISBN 13 : 9780062249890

Editeur : Dennis Lehane Books/Ecco, 2013

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“A powerfully beautiful novel” - Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review (New York Times Book Review)

“A stunner of a literary thriller. Grade A-” -Entertainment Weekly (Entertainment Weekly)

“Utterly transporting.”-People (People)

“Visitation Street explores a community’s response to tragedy with crystalline prose, a dose of the uncanny, and an unblinking eye for both human frailty and resilience. Marvelous.” (Deborah Harkness, bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches)

“Ivy Pochoda makes the saltiness of Brooklyn’s Red Hook come to life so vividly that every time I looked up from the pages of this intoxicating novel, I was surprised not to be there. Visitation Street is imbued with mystery and danger. (Emma Straub, author of Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures)

“Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and even Alice Sebold, yet it’s indelibly her own.” (Dennis Lehane)

“Visitation Street [is] beautiful, haunting. Ivy Pochoda brings forth the full palette of human emotions in this gripping urban drama, a story that hurts you on one page and gives you hope on the next. A marvelous novel.” (Michael Koryta, award winning author of So Cold the River)

“Pochoda’s premise is inspired, the novel that unfolds even more so. Rich characters, surprising shifts of plot and mood. I loved it.” -Lionel Shriver, award winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver, award winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin)

“Rich with characters and mood . . . Red Hook itself feels like a character-hard-worn, isolated from the rest of New York, left behind and forgotten. A terrific story in the vein of Dennis Lehane’s fiction.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))

“Visitation Street has a wonderfully eerie and intriguing premise...but it’s the evocation of place, the spot-on rendering of a diverse cast of characters, and the poetic pitch of the writing that elevates the book into the sphere of literature.” (Library Journal)

Quatrième de couverture :

Summer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, an isolated blue-collar neighborhood where hipster gourmet supermarkets push against tired housing projects and the East River opens into the bay. Bored and listless, fifteen-year-olds June and Val are looking for fun. Forget the boys, the bottles, the coded whistles. Val wants to do something wild and a little crazy: take a raft out onto the bay. But on the water during the humid night, the girls disappear. Only Val survives, washing ashore in the weeds, bruised and unconscious.

This shocking event echoes through the lives of Red Hook's diverse residents. Fadi, the Lebanese bodega owner, hopes that his shop is a place to share neighborhood news, and he trolls for information about June's disappearance. Cree, just beginning to pull it together after his father's murder, unwittingly makes himself the chief suspect in the investigation, but an enigmatic and elusive guardian is determined to keep him safe. Val contends with the shadow of her missing friend and a truth she's buried deep inside. Her teacher Jonathan, a Juilliard dropout and barfly, wrestles with dashed dreams and a past riddled with tragic sins.

In Visitation Street, Ivy Pochoda combines intensely vivid prose with breathtaking psychological insight to explore a cast of solitary souls, pulled by family, love, betrayal, and hope, who yearn for a chance to break free.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Dennis Lehane Books/Ecco
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0062249894
• ISBN 13: 9780062249890
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320