The Blood of the Lamb - Couverture souple

De Vries, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140062971 ISBN 13 : 9780140062977

Editeur : Viking Pr, 1982

Synopsis

Book by DeVries Peter

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The most poignant of all De Vries's novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also the most autobiographical. It follows the life of Don Wanderhop from his childhood in an immigrant Calvinist family living in Chicago in the 1950s through the loss of a brother, his faith, his wife, and finally his daughter-a tragedy drawn directly from De Vries's own life. Despite its foundation in misfortune, The Blood of the Lamb offers glimpses of the comic sensibility for which De Vries was famous. Engaging directly with the reader in a manner that buttresses the personal intimacy of the story, De Vries writes with a powerful blend of grief, love, wit, and fury.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Peter De Vries (1910–1993), the man responsible for contributing to the cultural vernacular such witticisms as "Nostalgia ain't what it used to be" and "Deep down, he's shallow," was, according to Kingsley Amis, "the funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic." But De Vries's life and work was informed as much by sorrow as by wit, and that dynamic is nowhere better seen than in his classics Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb. First published in 1982 and 1965, respectively, these novels reemerge with their sharp satire and biting pain undiluted by time.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Viking Pr
• Date d'édition: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0140062971
• ISBN 13: 9780140062977
• Reliure: Broché