Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. e-bog
104,11 DKK
(inkl. moms 130,14 DKK)
Timely, monumental. . . . Yet another piercing examination of American culture by the writer this reviewer considers our country's greatest living novelist. . . . It is brilliant. How blessed we are to have her as a novelist in our chaotic, confusing times.Nightis spot on for these times of racial divide, as well as in portraying the fractious family dynamic that many of us know all too well. ....
E-bog
104,11 DKK
Forlag
Ecco
Udgivet
9 juni 2020
Længde
800 sider
Genrer
Fiction: general and literary
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780062797605
Timely, monumental. . . . Yet another piercing examination of American culture by the writer this reviewer considers our country's greatest living novelist. . . . It is brilliant. How blessed we are to have her as a novelist in our chaotic, confusing times.Nightis spot on for these times of racial divide, as well as in portraying the fractious family dynamic that many of us know all too well. . . .Nightdeserves the top spot on your quarantine nightstand. Here's a fervent salute to Oates, our finest American novelist, for this one. -- Star TribuneThe bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society by one of our most enduringly popular and important writersNight Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all.Stark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oatess latest novel is a vivid exploration of race, psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing, as well as an intimate family novel in the tradition of the authors bestselling We Were the Mulvaneys.