A Ship Made of Paper: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Spencer, Scott

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0060185341 ISBN 13 : 9780060185343

Editeur : Ecco, 2003

Synopsis

Book by Spencer Scott

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

No novelist alive knows the human heart better than Scott Spencer does. No one tells stories about human passion with greater urgency, insight, or sympathy. In A Ship Made of Paper, this artist of desire paints his most profound and compelling canvas yet.

After a shattering incidence of violence in New York City, Daniel Emerson has returned to the Hudson River town where he grew up. There, along with Kate Ellis and her daughter, Ruby, he settles into the kind of secure and comfortable family life he longed for during his emotionally barren childhood. But then he falls in love with Iris Davenport, the black woman whose son is Ruby's best friend. During a freak October blizzard, Daniel is stranded at Iris's house, and they spend the night together -- the beginning of a sexual liaison that eventually imperils all their relationships, Daniel's profession, their children's well-being, their own race-blindness, and their view of themselves as essentially good people. And the emotional stakes are raised even higher when Iris's husband, Hampton, suffers a devastating accidental injury at Daniel's hands.

A Ship Made of Paper captures all the drama, nuance, and helpless intensity of sexual and romantic yearning, and it bears witness to the age-old conflict between the order of the human community and the disorder of desire.

Revue de presse :

“Spencer is a magnificent writer.” (Anne Tyler)

A Ship Made of Paper is an engagingly written, wickedly insightful, and passionate novel about desire, race, and fate. (Oscar Hijuelos)

Scott Spencer has a genius for observing dramatic everyday moments. (Francine Prose)

“Here’s a love story that you can recommend, without blushing, to other adults.” (Chicago Sun-Times)

“A Ship Made of Paper” rocks with suspense and daring. (Salon.com)

The beauty of this novel lies not only in the telling but in its commitment to the passionate life. (Newsweek)

“A searching study of the chaotic side of love.” (People)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ecco
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060185341
• ISBN 13: 9780060185343
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 368