The End - Couverture rigide

Scibona, Salvatore

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0224091492 ISBN 13 : 9780224091497

Editeur : Jonathan Cape, 2010

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'A masterful novel... Full of wisdom, consequence and grace, Salvatore Scibona's radiant debut brims with the promise of a remarkable literary career, of which The End is only the beginning' Annie Dillard

On August 15, 1953, the day of a tumultuous street carnival in Elephant Park, Ohio, the baker Rocco LaGrassa receives a devastating piece of news: his son has died in a POW camp in Korea. Rocco's dogged daily life is transformed.

This unforgettable debut novel follows Rocco, an elderly abortionist, an enigmatic drapery seamstress, a teenage boy and a jeweller deep into the heart of a crime that will twist all of their lives.

'In aiming to trace elements more than sentimental about relationships, though, Scibona has bravely reached beyond the familiar tricks of the realistic family novel. He has unleashed metaphors and ideas that have their own dark logi Boston Globe

'Like no other contemporary writer, Salvatore Scibona is heir to Saul Bellow, Graham Greene and Virginia Woolf, and his masterful novel stands as proof of it - a concordance of the immigrant experience from the beautiful to the brutal and everything in between' ZZ Packer

'A ravishing book: radiant, wise and wonderfully idiosyncratic. It is wonderful to see the immigrant novel reinvented with such originality and deep feeling, where the language catches fire on every page... The End not only follows it searching characters as they travel across countries, states and city blocks, but also charts hauntingly the journeys of their souls' Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum

'The End suggests this is the beginning of a fascinating career from an important new American voice' Daily Telegraph

'Scibona is a gutsy, heart-and-soul writer, unafraid of emotion and ready to take risks' Glasgow Herald

Revue de presse :

"Scibona loves language and recognizes the power of using the right word. He seems better educated than most American writers, with a strong vocabulary and rich ideas that urge him to build complex sentences.... To the reader's enrichment, The End is an outstanding work in all the right ways" (Annie Proulx Guardian)

"Scibona is a gutsy, heart-and-soul writer, unafraid of emotion and ready to take risks" (Rosemary Goring Herald)

"It may have taken a while for Scibona to get to this side of the Atlantic, but The End suggests this is the beginning of a fascinating career from an important new American voice" (Stuart Evers Daily Telegraph)

"This is an extraordinary novel about the experience of immigration; unsentimental and beautifully written" (Kate Saunders The Times)

"Its moments of sharply realised emotional pull and gentle beauty reel you in" (Metro)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0224091492
• ISBN 13: 9780224091497
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 304