Miracle at santanna - Brossura

Mcbride, J.

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ISBN 10: 0340825510 ISBN 13: 9780340825518

Casa editrice: Sceptre, 2002

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James McBride's first book, The Color of Water, a memoir published in 1996, sold more than 1.3 million copies and was a bestseller for two years. Now he has produced a novel, Miracle at Sant'Anna. It evokes such power and beauty, pathos and love, that it may very well outstrip its precursor...A searingly, soaringly beautiful novel. Some may argue that the epilogue, which brings the story sharply back to the present, does so perhaps a trifle too cleverly. That was not the case for me. I found it crisp and free of sentimentality.
The book's central theme, its essence, is a celebration of the human capacity for love. Even in the course of virtually unbearable warfare and deprivation - with carnage and devastation, hunger and hopelessness blotting out all other realities - people are able to touch each other, to care. That, McBride insists, is the enduring, immortal miracle of the human race, for all its imperfections.

(Baltimore Sun)

Superbly written...a moving and exciting story that totally satisfies (The Boston Globe)

Graceful, funny and unflinchingly honest (Marie Claire on The Color of Water)

A powerful and emotional novel of black American soldiers fighting the German army in the mountains of Italy around the village of St. Anna of Stazzema in December 1944. This is a refreshingly ambitious story of men facing the enemy in front and racial prejudice behind; it is also a carefully crafted tale of a mute Italian orphan boy who teaches the American soldiers, Italian villagers and partisans that miracles are the result of faith and trust....Through his sharply drawn characters, McBride exposes racism, guilt, courage, revenge and forgiveness, with the soldiers confronting their own fear and rage in surprisingly personal ways at the decisive moment in their lives (Publishers Weekly)

McBride displays an ear for storytelling and language, but here he also proves he can devise a plot that gathers intensity as it accelerates (People)

A seamless eloquence that is both engaging and enlightening (Sydney Morning Herald on The Color of Water)

The two stories, son's and mother's, beautifully juxtaposed to strike a graceful note (The New York Times Book Review)

A haunting meditation on faith that's also a cracking military thriller . . . MIRACLE flows along with cool, clean prose . . . Profoundly spiritual but rarely preachy, MIRACLE turns out to be less a Good Book than a good book - a miracle in itself (Entertainment Weekly)

Stunning...Incandescent prose which at once marks up a new voice and calls up Tennessee Williams, Isaac Bashevis Singer and streetwise black America rolled into one (Financial Times on The Color of Water)

An extraordinary story, beautifully told (Jewish Chronicle on The Color of Water)

L'autore:

James McBride is an award-winning writer and musician. He has been a staff writer for the Washington Post, People magazine, and the Boston Globe. His memoir and tribute to his mother, The Color of Water, spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list, was published worldwide, and was the winner of the prestigious Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. As a composer, he won the American Music Theater Festival's Stephen Sondheim Award for his jazz/pop musical Bobos, and has composed songs for Anita Baker, Grover Washington Jr., and Gary Burton. A jazz saxophonist, he has performed with Rachelle Farrell and with legendary jazz performer Little Jimmy Scott. He lives in Pennsylvania.

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