The End - Couverture rigide

Scibona, Salvatore

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1555974988 ISBN 13 : 9781555974985

Editeur : Graywolf Pr, 2008

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

Présentation de l'éditeur :

An incredible debut and National Book Award-nominated novel?it?s ?Memento meets Augie March. Didion meets Hitchcock? (Esquire).

It is August 15, 1953, the day of a boisterous and unwieldy street carnival in Elephant Park, an Italian immigrant enclave in northern Ohio. As the festivities reach a riotous pitch and billow into the streets, five members of the community labor under the weight of a terrible secret. As these floundering souls collide, one day of calamity and consequence sheds light on a half century of their struggles, their follies, and their pride. And slowly, it becomes clear that buried deep in the hearts of these five exquisitely drawn characters is the long-silenced truth about the crime that twisted each of their worlds.

Cast against the racial, spiritual, and moral tension that has given rise to modern America, this first novel exhumes the secrets lurking in the darkened crevices of the soul of our country. Inventive, explosive, and revelatory, The End introduces Salvatore Scibona as an important new voice in American fiction.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Graywolf Pr
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1555974988
• ISBN 13: 9781555974985
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 297