Pacific - Couverture rigide

Drury, Tom

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0802119999 ISBN 13 : 9780802119995

Editeur : Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013

Synopsis

Book by Drury Tom

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'Fans of Drury's masterpiece debut, The End of Vandalism, will welcome the return of Dan Norman, Grouse County's former sheriff-turned-private investigator whose caseload includes concerned parents, fraudulent bowlers and Sandra Zulma, a young woman under the impression that she is a Celtic goddess ... Loneliness and its possible antidotes are Drury's great subjects -- how love, family, community and even chance encounters provide escape from isolation.'INDEPENDENT on PACIFIC

'Drury gives us the wondrous and engaging stuff of real storytelling, of actual inquiry and investigation into the haunting and jokey puzzles of the world, at a time when so much literature stops short of invoking something larger or spends so much time touting grand themes that it forgets to make something happen.'NEW YORK TIMES on PACIFIC

'Drury's fiction is chockablock with . . . tiny epics unfurling and resolving in quick, universally funny vignettes. In Pacific, these centre around the characters from his debut, The End of Vandalism, certainly among the funniest, most humane American novels of the last quarter-century.'BOSTON GLOBE'

Pacific catches up with characters Drury fans have come to cherish. It's just a beautiful book of quiet power that deserves recognition as a contemporary classic.'
MCSWEENEY'S

'A major figure in American literature, author of a string of novels without a dud in the bunch ... Drury gives us the wondrous and engaging stuff of real storytelling'
NEW YORK TIMES

'If you read The End of Vandalism you will become one of those people who try to foist it upon other people, your eyes shining with the unsettling delight of having lived through it.'
JON MCGREGOR

'Astonishing ... Drury's descriptions are so tangible that it feels almost surprising that his characters don't wander out of the pages and shake you by the hand ... The best way to do justice to the book is to urge you to read it. When I first saw a copy I noted that Jonathan Franzen was quoted on the front. At the time, I thought Drury had done well to get such an endorsement. Now I've read The End of Vandalism, I realise it's the other way round. To be associated with something this good would be an honour for any writer.'
INDEPENDENT

'Brilliant, wonderfully funny ... It's hard to think of any novel -- let alone a first novel -- in which you can hear the people so well. This is indeed deadpan humour, and Tom Drury is its master'
ANNIE DILLARD

'Wry, dry and genuinely funny ... Drury has...the ability to create a world readers can really immerse themselves in'
DAILY MAIL

'A rare master at the art of seeing.'
YIYUN LI

'The always fresh perspective of this one-of-a-kind writer will have you responding like his character who ''laughed with surprise in her heart''.'
KIRKUS REVIEWS --...

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In Pacific, Tom Drury revisits the community of Grouse County, the setting of his landmark debut, The End of Vandalism. When fourteen-year-old Micah Darling travels to Los Angeles to reunite with the mother who abandoned him seven years ago, he finds himself out of his league in a land of magical freedom.
Back in the Midwest, an ethereal young woman comes to Stone City on a mission that will unsettle the lives of everyone she meets -- including Micah's half-sister, Lyris, and his father, Tiny, a petty thief. An investigation into the stranger's identity uncovers a darkly disturbed life, as parallel narratives of the comic and tragic, the mysterious and quotidian, unfold in both the country and the city.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0802119999
• ISBN 13: 9780802119995
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208