Wash - Couverture souple

Wagner, Erica

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1784634018 ISBN 13 : 9781784634018

Editeur : Salt Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

He is a boy growing up in rural Pennsylvania under the eye of a brutal, brilliant father. He is a young man at college, enduring the choices that have been made for him and finding brightness and beauty all the same. He is a soldier in a dreadful war who – despite that awful conflict – finds the extraordinary woman who was the love of his life, and her tale inextricably twines with his. He is an engineer who builds one of the great wonders of the modern world.

His name is Washington Roebling. His life holds the possible and the impossible, what could be grasped and what could only be longed for. History holds one truth. Here is another.

Forged in a brutal age, duty-bound to execute his domineering father’s vision of the life he must live, he joins forces with his brilliant wife Emily to overcome myriad obstacles to fulfilling his obligation, chief among them his own yearning to shed the burden of achieving a dream that was never his own.

This is a book of growth, yearning, about the price of achievement, about the road not taken. Beads on the necklace of a life are strung together to create a composite portrait not only of Washington but of those who loved him: Emily of course, but Max too – a young man whose spirit will haunt him for the rest of his life.

Here duty and desire, love and obligation, intersect and contradict each other. With subtle narrative and powerful, vivid prose it offers an invitation to enter a complex world, so that readers may see their own histories, their own choices, their own possibilities, mirrored in this compelling text.

Wash is a richly imagined and intimate book about a singular life – built from as many intricately linked elements as the iconic Brooklyn Bridge that is its hero's lasting legacy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Erica Wagner’s works include Gravity: Stories, Ariel’s Gift and Seizure: A Novel. Twice a judge of the Man Booker Prize, she was literary editor of The Times for seventeen years, and she is now writes for The Observer, as well as many publications in Britain and the United States.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Salt Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1784634018
• ISBN 13: 9781784634018
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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