The End: A Novel - Couverture souple

Scibona, Salvatore

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1594484058 ISBN 13 : 9781594484056

Editeur : Penguin Books, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Scibona Salvatore

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"A masterful novel set amid racial upheaval in 1950s America during the flight of second-generation immigrants from their once-necessary ghettos. 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

"Lyrical... Bold... Beautiful." – The Boston Globe

"Exquisitely rendered... Does not open up so much as catch and slowly reel in." – Los Angeles Times
 
"Rhapsodic... Unflinching... Masterful... A novel unafraid to split into the breastplate of humankind and aim a floodlight at the demons dancing there." – Southern Review

"Engulfing. Entangled. Fate-laden. Flinty." – Esquire 

"Precise yet inventive...[Scibona] fleshes out a scrabbling immigrant Cleveland." – The American Book Review

"Like no other contemporary writer...A concordance of the immigrant experience from the beautiful to the brutal and everything in between." – ZZ Packer, author of Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

"Possibly the only novel I've ever read that legitimately deserves to be called Bellovian. And that's no small claim." – Kenyon Review

"Breathtaking... Think not only Faulkner, but also T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein and James Joyce." – Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Scibona loves language and recognizes the power of using the right word. He seems better educated than most American writers, with a strong vocabulary and rich ideas that urge him to build complex sentences.... To the reader's enrichment, The End is an outstanding work in all the right ways" – Annie Proulx, The Guardian

“Virtuosic... There is an intensity of purpose to Salvatore Scibona's endeavor that is decidedly uncommon...  Scibona is a deft and intricate plotter... There is no doubt whatsoever of the beauty or brilliance of Scibona's writing...  The free flow of thought is almost miraculously caught.” – Olivia Laing, The Observer

"Scibona is a gutsy, heart-and-soul writer, unafraid of emotion and ready to take risks." – Rosemary Goring, Herald (UK)

"It may have taken a while for Scibona to get to this side of the Atlantic, but The End suggests this is the beginning of a fascinating career from an important new American voice." – Stuart Evers, Daily Telegraph (UK)

"This is an extraordinary novel about the experience of immigration; unsentimental and beautifully written." — Kate Saunders, The Times (UK)

"Its moments of sharply realized emotional pull and gentle beauty reel you in." — Metro (UK)

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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1594484058
• ISBN 13: 9781594484056
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336