Amity & Sorrow: A Novel - Couverture souple

Riley, Peggy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0316220876 ISBN 13 : 9780316220873

Editeur : Back Bay Books, 2016

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Amity & Sorrow, grace and hope, honor and innocence, bliss and deliverance-all of this from one beautifully nuanced story about the nature of family and the power of faith. I savored every word."―Lori Lansens, author of The Girls

"A beautiful and terrifying book. Peggy Riley tells a complex and enthralling tale of family love and religious belief with uncommon wisdom, grace, and skill."―Sigrid Nunez, author of The Last of Her Kind

"Amity & Sorrow is a startlingly original, intelligent and beautiful first novel that I found riveting from page one. I can only wait with great anticipation for what comes next from Peggy Riley."―Michael Connelly, author of The Black Box

"Fierce and disturbing.... Riley's debut novel is a harsh but compassionate look at nature vs. nurture through the lens of a polygamous cult."―Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

"[An] accomplished, harrowing debut.... Riley's descriptive prose is rich in metaphor.... [and] the haunting literary drama simmers to a boil as it deftly navigates issues of family, faith, community, and redemption."―Ann Kelley, Booklist (Starred Review)

"A literary page-turner.... Her writing is clear, crisp, chilling..."―Reader's Digest

"Fierce and disturbing.... A harsh but compassionate look at nature vs. nurture."―The Washington Examiner

"Gripping.... a must-read for book lovers."―Ladies Home Journal

A powerful book about hope and redemption, as well as the perils of unquestioned belief and obedience."―SheKnows.com

"[A] shimmering first novel.... This delicately stitched, finely patterned and poetic novel suggests there is a tipping point at which human resilience disappears.... Riley has a gift for metaphor that gives this novel loft, and a rhythmic way of swinging from present to past."―Dylan Landis, New York Times Book Review

Présentation de l'éditeur

A page-turning literary debut about a mother and her two teenage daughters escaping a cult and starting over. Two sisters sit in the backseat of a car, bound at the wrists by a strip of white cloth. Their mother, Amaranth, drives for days without pause, desperate to get away from the husband she fears will follow them to the earth's end. Her daughters, Amity and Sorrow, cannot comprehend why they're fleeing or fathom what exists outside their father's polygamous compound. When an exhausted Amaranth crashes their car in rural Oklahoma, rescue arrives in the form of Bradley, a farmer not unfamiliar with loss and uncertain futures. At first mistrustful of the strange, prayerful trio, Bradley allows his abiding tolerance to get the best of him, and the four become a new kind of family.

Full of achingly beautiful prose, AMITY & SORROW is a mesmerizing debut about belief, redemption, and the dark heart of extreme faith.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Back Bay Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0316220876
• ISBN 13: 9780316220873
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 335