Lookaway, Lookaway - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1250020832 ISBN 13 : 9781250020833

Synopsis

Book by Barnhardt Wilton

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Lacerating but affectionate, as exuberant as it is shrewd, Lookaway, Lookaway is a Southern novel so sure-footed the only real question for Barnhardt is, What took you so long?...By the end I felt like a starving man at a buffet--sated but still hungry. That's not really a knock. Lookaway, Lookaway is that rare thing: an excellent long novel that's not long enough.--Malcolm Jones, The New York Times Book Review. It is a work that hides its craft but never its beauty, that is ambitious but never pretentious, that does not sacrifice nuance for power or power for nuance. The book's careful, formal composition is invisible as you read, and it's a beautiful read, sad and savagely funny, one place inexplicably contained in the other.--Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books A dishier array of secrets animates Lookaway, Lookaway, Wilton Barnhardt's big, enveloping novel about a status-conscious North Carolina family.--Janet Maslin, The New York Times Scathing yet touching, this is a delicious saga of Old South meets New, a story of America lurching toward the future.--People Magazine A delicious romp with a dysfunctional Southern Family.--The Chicago Tribune. Barnhardt's fourth novel is a revelation: witty, savage and bighearted all at once, it is the Southern novel for the 21st century.-- Kirkus (Starred Review) Dixieland was never so dishy nor dysfunctional as in Barnhardt's ribald send-up of the conflagration that ensues when Old South tradition confronts New South tackiness...Barnhardt's satirical scorching of southern culture comes in second only to Sherman's fiery march.--Booklist Review. North Carolina native Barnhardt's frothy, satirical latest (after Show World) is Southern gothic at its most decadent and dysfunctional.--Publishers Weekly. Barnhardt bursts forth with a big book that has everyone bustling.Library Journal An effervescent novel. --Various

Présentation de l'éditeur

Jerene Jarvis Johnston and her husband Duke are exemplars of Charlotte, North Carolina's high society, a world where old Southern money and the secrets behind it meet the new wealth of real estate speculators and carpet bagging social climbers. Steely and implacable, Jerene presides over her family's legacy of paintings at the Mint Museum; Duke, whose promising political career was mysteriously short-circuited, has settled into a comfortable semi-senescence as a Civil War re-enactor. Jerene's brother Gaston is an infamously dissolute bestselling historical novelist who has never managed to begin his long-dreamed-of masterpiece, and their sister Dillard's unfortunate life decisions and losses have rendered her a near-recluse. As the four Johnston children - smart but reckless Annie, good-boy minister Bo, might be gay but that's okay Joshua, and damaged, dangerous Jerilyn - flounder in their adult lives, Jerene must take action to preserve the family's legacy, Duke's fragile honour, and what's left of the dwindling family fortune. She will stop at nothing to keep what she has - is it too much to ask for one ounce of cooperation from her heedless family?

Détails de l'édition

• Date d'édition: 1601
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1250020832
• ISBN 13: 9781250020833
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 361
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible