Foregone - Couverture souple

Russell Banks

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1771963999 ISBN 13 : 9781771963992

Editeur : Biblioasis, 2021

Synopsis

A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2021

"Terrifically compelling ... In this complex and powerful novel, we come face to face with the excruciating allure of redemption."―Washington Post

In his late seventies and dying of cancer, famed Canadian-American documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders who fled to Canada to avoid Vietnam, has agreed to one final interview, determined to bare all his secrets and demythologize his mythologized life. But the story that unspools in front of the camera and an intimate chorus of observers, including Fife’s wife, his nurse, and his acolyte and former star student Malcolm Macleod, is confoundingly unexpected, the dark and affecting account of a man entirely unknown to all.

A searing novel about memory, betrayal, love, and the faint grace note of redemption, Russell Banks’s Foregone is a daring and resonant work about the scope of one man’s mysterious life, revealed through the fragments of his recovered past.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Russell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is one of America’s most prestigious fiction writers, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Common Wealth Award for Literature. He lives in upstate New York and Miami, Florida.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2021

"Terrifically compelling ... In this complex and powerful novel, we come face to face with the excruciating allure of redemption."―Washington Post

In his late seventies and dying of cancer, famed Canadian-American documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders who fled to Canada to avoid Vietnam, has agreed to one final interview, determined to bare all his secrets and demythologize his mythologized life. But the story that unspools in front of the camera and an intimate chorus of observers, including Fife’s wife, his nurse, and his acolyte and former star student Malcolm Macleod, is confoundingly unexpected, the dark and affecting account of a man entirely unknown to all.

A searing novel about memory, betrayal, love, and the faint grace note of redemption, Russell Banks’s Foregone is a daring and resonant work about the scope of one man’s mysterious life, revealed through the fragments of his recovered past.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Biblioasis
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1771963999
• ISBN 13: 9781771963992
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 305
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible