Follow Me: A Novel - Rilegato

Scott, Joanna

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ISBN 10: 0316051659 ISBN 13: 9780316051651

Casa editrice: Little Brown & Co, 2009

Riassunto

On a summer day in 1946 Sally Werner, the precocious young daughter of hardscrabble Pennsylvania farmers, secretly accepts her cousin's invitation to ride his new motorcycle. Like so much of what follows in Sally's life, it's an impulsive decision with dramatic and far-reaching consequences. Soon she abandons her home to begin a daring journey of self-creation, the truth of which she entrusts only with her granddaughter and namesake, six decades later. But when young Sally's father--a man she has never known--enters her life and offers another story altogether, she must uncover the truth of her grandmother's secret history.

Boldly rendered and beautifully told, in FOLLOW ME Joanna Scott has crafted a paean to the American tradition of re-invention and a sweeping saga of timeless and tender storytelling.

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Recensione:

"Lyrical. . . . Scott, whose previous novels have been finalists for both the Pulitzer and the PEN/Faulkner awards, excels in her stream-of-consciousness descriptions of the mysterious Tuskee that provides Sally's true north." (Washington Post Caroline Preston)

"[Scott] has here fashioned a densely stitched crazy quilt of a story...there's a lusciousness to all the excess, an egalitarian sensibility in keeping with the most quintessential aspects of American mythology." (New York Times Book Review Leah Hager Cohen)

"Joanna Scott has one of those imaginations that recasts details in her own image. . .You think it must be her story, the story of her ancestors, but then you remember she's an accomplished fiction writer. She knows how to ride and break a good, feisty story. After it's broken, and the pieces lay all around, you realize that you could not, in a million years, ever reconstruct it, even though, in so many ways, it has become your story too." (Los Angeles Times Susan Salter Reynolds)

L'autore:

Joanna Scott is the author of nine books, including The Manikin, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Various Antidotes and Arrogance, which were both finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award; and the critically acclaimed Make Believe, Tourmaline, and Liberation. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Award, she lives with her family in upstate New York.

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• Editore: Little Brown & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0316051659
• ISBN 13: 9780316051651
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 420