New Valley Novellas - Couverture rigide

Weil, Josh

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0802118917 ISBN 13 : 9780802118912

Editeur : Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009

Synopsis

<div>The linked novellas that comprise Josh Weil’s masterful debut bring us into America’s remote, unforgiving backcountry, and delicately unveil the private worlds of three very different men as they confront love, loss, and their own personal demons.<br>Set in the hardscrabble hill country between West Virginia and Virginia, <i>The New Valley</i> is populated by characters striving to forge new lives in the absence of those they have loved. Told in three varied and distinct voices&#8212from a soft-spoken beef farmer struggling to hold himself together after his dad’s ; to a health-obsessed single father desperate to control his reckless, overweight daughter; to a mildly ed man who falls for a married woman intent on using him in a scheme that wounds them both&#8212each novella is a vivid examination of Weil’s uniquely romanticized relationships. As the men struggle against grief, solitude, and fixation, their desperation leads them all to commit acts that bring both ruin and salvation.<br>Reminiscent of Bobbie Ann Mason, Annie Proulx, and Kent Haruf in its deeply American tone, <i>The New Valley</i> is a tender exploration of resilience, isolation, and the consuming ache for human connection. Weil’s empathetic, metious prose makes this is a debut of inescapable power.</div>

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802118917
• ISBN 13: 9780802118912
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 288
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