Liars and Saints: A Novel - Rilegato

Meloy, Maile

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ISBN 10: 0743244354 ISBN 13: 9780743244350

Casa editrice: Scribner, 2003

Riassunto

In a tale that spans the period between the Second World War and the present, the Catholic Santerre family of California navigates through a succession of life-altering events and revelations, during which its members are driven by jealousy, propriety, love, deceit, and tragedy. A first novel. 25,000 first printing.

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Recensione

Philip Roth Liars and Saints is a surehanded little first-novel by a sly, knowledgeable, no-nonsense young writer who will not permit herself a single exaggeration but who nonetheless packs quite a punch. It is a surehanded little first-novel that, for all its brevity, happens to disclose half a century of a middle-class Catholic family's disappointed expectations. The quiet, unastonished precision with which Maile Meloy depicts the extent to which everything now goes haywire in so-called ordinary American life is an impressive achievement, literary and otherwise.

Elizabeth Strout Author of Amy and Isabelle In this exquisitely rendered novel, Meloy brings her incisive intelligence to the page once again, reminding us that our actions and inactions, admissions and omissions, travel from one generation to the next, and that our past travels with us.

L'autore

Maile Meloy's short story collection, Half in Love, was a New York Times Notable Book in 2002. She won the 2001 Aga Khan Prize for best story in The Paris Review. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker and Best New American Voices and has been nominated for a National Magazine Award. She lives in California.

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• Editore: Scribner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0743244354
• ISBN 13: 9780743244350
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 260