Nickel Mountain: A Pastoral Novel - Brossura

Gardner, John Champlin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0811216780 ISBN 13: 9780811216784

Casa editrice: New Directions, 2007

Riassunto

John Gardner's most poignant novel of improbable love. At the heart of John Gardner's "Nickel Mountain" is an uncommon love story: when at 42, the obese, anxious and gentle Henry Soames marries seventeen-year-old Callie Wells--who is pregnant with the child of a local boy--it is much more than years which define the gulf between them. But the beauty of this novel is the gradual revelation of the bond that develops as this unlikely couple experiences courtship and marriage, the birth of a son, isolation, forgiveness, work, and death in a small Catskill community in the 1950s. The plot turns on tragic events--they might be accidents or they might be acts of will--involving a cast of rural eccentrics tha includes a lonely amputee veteran, a religious hysteric (thought by some to be the devil himself) and an itinerant "Goat Lady." Questions of guilt, innocence, and even murder are eclipsed by deeds of compassion, humility, and redemption, and ultimately by Henry Soames' quiet discovery of grace. Novelist William H. Gass, a friend and colleague of the author, has written an introduction that shines new light on the work and career of the much praised but often misunderstood John Gardner.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: New Directions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0811216780
• ISBN 13: 9780811216784
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 313