The Plover - Couverture rigide

Doyle, Brian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1628991569 ISBN 13 : 9781628991567

Editeur : Center Point, 2014

Synopsis

Declan O Donnell has sailed out of Oregon and deep into the vast, wild ocean, having finally had enough of other people and their problems. He will go it alone, he will be his own country, he will be beholden to and beloved of no one. No man is an island, my butt, he thinks. I am that very man . . .

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Praise for The Plover. The Plover is about beauty, loneliness, the mysteries of the sea, albatrosses, an unforgettable young girl, language, healing, and love. And plenty more. Brian Doyle writes with Melville's humor, Whitman's ecstasy, and Faulkner's run-on sentences; in this book he has somehow unified his considerable talents into an affirming, whimsical, exuberant, and pelagic wonder. Few contemporary novels shimmer like this one. --Anthony Doerr, author of The Shell Collector. Brian Doyle has spun a great sea story, filled with apparitions, poetry, thrills, and wisdom. The sweet, buoyant joy under every sentence carried me along and had me cheering. I enjoyed this book enormously. --Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia. Board this boat! Here's Doyle at his probing, astonishing, wordslinging best. --Robin Cody, author of Voyage of a Summer Sun Conrad, Stevenson and Jack London come to mind, but so does the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. ... The Plover sails delightfully on an imaginative sea of insight, compassion and a kind of mystical grace. --The Seattle Times It is Doyle's careful shaping of his characters' internal landscapes that make The Plover so unique. ... A novel of wondrous ideas worth mulling over. ... What The Plover has on offer is aplenty: big themes -- the search inner peace, a need to be loved, the destruction of our planet -- flanked by small touches, like the reproductions of ocean-themed woodcuts at the opening of each chapter or the bars of music sprinkled throughout the text (if you have an instrument on hand, give those notes a gander). The Oregonian The Plover alternately reminded me of The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey, with its crippled main character and fictional country; The Life of Pi by Yann Martel, for strange adventures at sea; Florence and Giles by John Harding, for made-up words; and the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez --Various

Biographie de l'auteur

Brian Doyle edits Portland Magazine at the University of Portland in Oregon. He is the author of many books, among them the sprawling Oregon novel "Mink River. His work has been reprinted in the annual Best American Essays, Best American Science and Nature Writing, and Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. Among various honors for his work are a Catholic Book Award, three Pushcart Prizes, the John Burroughs Award for Nature Essays, the Foreword Reviews. Book of the Year Award in 2011, and, puzzling him to this day, the 2008 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Center Point
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1628991569
• ISBN 13: 9781628991567
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 367
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible