Tongues of Angels: A Novel - Brossura

Price, Reynolds

Brossura

ISBN 10: 074320221X ISBN 13: 9780743202213

Casa editrice: Scribner, 2000

Riassunto

"I'm as peaceful a man as you're likely to meet in America now, but this is about a death I may have caused. Not slowly over time by abuse or meanness but on a certain day and by ignorance, by plain lack of notice. Though it happened thirty-four years ago, and though I can't say it's haunted my mind that many nights lately, I suspect I can draw it out for you now, clear as this noon. I may need to try."
Set in a summer camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the deceptively tranquil 1950s, The Tongues of Angels is a story of the twenty-one-year-old painting teacher, a superbly gifted boy, and their advance toward a startling fate. As the now-older man looks back at on that summer, he reflects on the meanings he thought he had learned on the threshold of manhood from the perspective of full maturity.

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Recensione:

Paul Skenazy San Francisco Chronicle An introspective and philosophical tale...this novel is a carefully conceived series of events trapped in deeply considered ideas about how art both reproduces and creates our sense of life.

Robert Wilson USA Today The Tongues of Angels may be Price's most inviting novel yet.

Reginald Ollen The Nation One comes away from this novel with the certainty that, regardless of what cultural baggage -- or garbage -- we carry into the forest, the majesty of nature and the mysterious spirit of our Native American past are things to carry home forever.

L'autore:

Reynolds Price is the author of more than thirty books, including Roxanna Slade, A Singular Family, and Kate Vaiden, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in the Piedmont countryside of North Carolina.

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• Editore: Scribner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 074320221X
• ISBN 13: 9780743202213
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208