The Turner House - Brossura

Flournoy, Angela

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ISBN 10: 0544705165 ISBN 13: 9780544705166

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2016

Riassunto

“Flournoy’s knockout debut is one of those books that should, by rights, be described as the Great American Novel.” — NPR 
A New York Times Notable Book
 
Named a Best Book of the Year byO, The Oprah Magazine * Entertainment Weekly * NPR * Essence * Men’s Journal * Buzzfeed * Bustle * Time Out * Denver Post * Publishers Weekly * Kirkus Reviews * BookPage * Literary Hub * Kobo * The Week
 
“A page-turner. Richly wrought prose and intimate, vivid dialogue. A–.” — Entertainment Weekly
 
For over fifty years the Turners have lived on Yarrow Street. Their house has seen thirteen children get grown and gone—and some return; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit’s East Side, and the loss of a father. But when their powerful mother falls ill, the Turners are called home to decide their house’s fate and to reckon with how their past haunts—and shapes—their future. The Turner House is a striking examination of the price we pay for our dreams, and the ways in which our families bring us home.
 
“An epic that feels deeply personal . . . Flournoy’s finely tuned empathy infuses her characters with a radiant humanity.” — O, The Oprah Magazine
 
“In this assured and memorable novel, [Flournoy] provides the feeling of knowing a family from the inside out, as we would wish to know our own.” — New York Times Book Review

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B&N Discover Pick; BAM Top Pick for Spring 2015; May 2015 Indie Next Title “Flournoy has written an epic that feels deeply personal . . . Flournoy’s finely tuned empathy infuses her characters with a radiant humanity.” —O, The Oprah Magazine "Nobody can take you from joyful to infuriated as fast as your brother or sister. Similarly, the ups and downs of the 13 siblings that populate The Turner House, the first novel by Angela Flournoy, whip from laugh-out-loud to heart-crushing. Still, she proves even bonds that have stretched a mile long have the ability to snap back." —Essence Magazine "A lively, thoroughly engaging family saga with a cast of fully realized characters . . . [Flournoy] handles time and place with a veteran's ease . . . She puts her own distinctive stamp on this absorbing narrative." —Publisher's Weekly, starred and boxed review "Encompassing a multitude of themes, including aging and parenthood, this is a compelling read that is funny and moving in equal measure." —Booklist, starred review "Utterly moving and tough as nails . . . Commanding and un-putdownable!" —Ayana Mathis

A New York Times Notable Book of 2015

B&N Discover Pick; BAM Top Pick for Spring 2015; May 2015 Indie Next Title “Flournoy has written an epic that feels deeply personal...Flournoy’s finely tuned empathy infuses her characters with a radiant humanity.”--O, The Oprah Magazine "Nobody can take you from joyful to infuriated as fast as your brother or sister. Similarly, the ups and downs of the 13 siblings that populate The Turner House, the first novel by Angela Flournoy, whip from laugh-out-loud to heart-crushing. Still, she proves even bonds that have stretched a mile long have the ability to snap back."--Essence Magazine "A lively, thoroughly engaging family saga with a cast of fully realized characters...[Flournoy] handles time and place with a veteran's ease...She puts her own distinctive stamp on this absorbing narrative."--Publisher's Weekly, starred and boxed review "Encompassing a multitude of themes, including aging and parenthood, this is a compelling read that is funny and moving in equal measure."--Booklist, starred review "Utterly moving and tough as nails . . . Commanding and un-putdownable!"—Ayana Mathis, bestselling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie  

B&N Discover Pick BAM Top Pick for Spring 2015 May 2015 Indie Next Title “Flournoy has written an epic that feels deeply personal...Flournoy’s finely tuned empathy infuses her characters with a radiant humanity.”--O, The Oprah Magazine "Nobody can take you from joyful to infuriated as fast as your brother or sister. Similarly, the ups and downs of the 13 siblings that populate The Turner House, the first novel by Angela Flournoy, whip from laugh-out-loud to heart-crushing. Still, she proves even bonds that have stretched a mile long have the ability to snap back."--Essence Magazine "A lively, thoroughly engaging family saga with a cast of fully realized characters...[Flournoy] handles time and place with a veteran's ease...She puts her own distinctive stamp on this absorbing narrative."--Publisher's Weekly, starred and boxed review "Encompassing a multitude of themes, including aging and parenthood, this is a compelling read that is funny and moving in equal measure."--Booklist, starred review "Flournoy's writing is precise and sharp...the novel draws readers to the Turner family almost magnetically. A talent to watch."--Kirkus "What makes The Turner House profound is its reality, its observation of a family so diverse and well-drawn that they seem real...Their story is beautiful in the way family is beautiful: full of heartbreak and broken dreams, but ultimately connection and community, understanding and love."--BookPage "Utterly moving and tough as nails . . . Commanding and un-putdownable!"—Ayana Mathis, bestselling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie "An expansive and ambitious novel that descends through the generations of one family’s history to achieve real poignancy and power." —T.C. Boyle, bestselling author of San Miguel, The Women, and many others “Angela Flournoy is a magician . . . this is a thrilling debut from a writer to watch.”—Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow and others “Angela Flournoy’s extraordinary debut novel, The Turner House, is as compelling, unforgettable, and beautifully told a story as I’ve read in ages."—Cristina Garcia, author of Dreaming in Cuban, King of Cuba, and others "This is a beautiful, elegant, and living novel, one that you will savor until the last, moving paragraph." --Daniel Alarcón, author of At Night We Walk in Circles “This book is so beautifully written, so perfectly observed and heard—it’s about aging and parenthood and above all that misunderstood lifelong union, siblinghood—but it’s also pure pleasure to read: funny, heartbreaking, with the sort of characters you’ll miss like family when you finish. The Turner House is an absolutely wonderful novel.”—Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Giant’s House, Thunderstruck, and others

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Meet the Turners: a big, complicated, loving, feuding, vibrant American family
 

There ain’t no haints in Detroit.
 
So spoke Francis Turner—patriarch and provider, former preacher and current truck driver—when his children claimed to have seen a ghost. A rising homeowner set to banish all the old ways for the promise of the new, Francis was having none of it. He and his wife worked hard to secure that house, to move up from Arkansas to Detroit, to make this life possible. He would not be haunted by the past.  
 
And so a myth was born, where any one of the Turners might later say this phrase and be telling about so much more than haints.
 
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The Turners live on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house sees thirteen children get grown and gone—and some return; it sees the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit’s East Side, and the loss of a father. Despite abandoned lots, an embattled city, and the inevitable shift outward to the suburbs, the house still stands. But now, as their powerful mother falls ill and loses her independence, the Turners might lose their family home. Beset by time and a national crisis, the house is worth just a tenth of its mortgage. The Turner children are called back to decide its fate and to reckon with how each of their pasts might haunt—and shape—their family’s future.           
 
A major new contribution to the literature on American families, The Turner House brings us a colorful brood full of love, pride, and unlikely inheritances. It’s a striking examination of the American dream and a celebration of the ways in which our families bring us home.

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• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0544705165
• ISBN 13: 9780544705166
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 340