Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo - Brossura

Fishman, Boris

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0992918235 ISBN 13: 9780992918231

Casa editrice: Pushkin Press, 2016

Riassunto

'You're the mother. You will raise him as you see fit. But I want to ask you for one thing... Please don't let my baby do rodeo.' Eight-year-old Max has gone missing. Again. His behaviour is a mystery to Maya and Alex, his Russian immigrant parents who adopted him as a baby in America. He has started wandering away from home, talking to wild animals, eating grass, and refusing to sleep in a bed. Can they really raise this feral child? Their uneasy marriage has tamed Maya's free spirit - but when Max is found after his most recent disappearance, she insists that they all drive from New Jersey to the boy's native Montana, to reconnect with his biological family. Maybe it will help them understand his mother's cryptic message? Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo is a beautifully nuanced and poignant novel about adoption, married love, and what it means to truly belong.

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Recensione

'Empathetically narrated... begins with the unexpected and ends with the enigmatic' -- Sunday Telegraph

'A rewarding read: sensitive, wise and truthful' -- Big Issue

'Fishman is in cool and nuanced control of his material' -- Herald

'When Max finally learns the truth of his origins, his shock and confusion are so heart-rending to read' -- Financial Times

'Fishman fills the book with a cast of colourful minor characters... Many will find this story of an unhappy family trying to pull itself together moving, at times funny, a pleasure to read' -- Jewish Chronicle

'This is an extraordinary book, worthy of joining the pantheon of American literature' -- Bookoxygen

'Fishman's writing is impossible to fault, especially in its descriptive sections. He writes with precision about the emotional currents between fighting people; he writes sex well; he writes perfectly about the landscape of the American West' -- Elle Thinks

'He is, simply, a joy to read' -- New York Times Book Review

'[Fishman's] second novel is a fresh, unpredictable departure from his first. Max may or may not do rodeo, but from now on expect Boris Fishman to do anything' -- San Francisco Chronicle

'An eloquent and uncynical tale of how far people must travel to find out what they truly want and who they truly are' -- Chicago Tribune

'Touching... a sensitive and surprisingly adventurous exploration of one woman's wonder and suffering' -- Publishers Weekly

'Fishman smartly observers that the assimilation novel and road-trip novel make good partners. Both, after all, are about finding freedom. A comic novel about parenting infused with emotional intelligence' -- Kirkus

'With Fishman, we are in the hands of a genuine miniaturist, a cultivator of particulars, a writer who knows that familial conflict is in the realm of intense feeling packaged in tiny gestures' --O, the Oprah Magazine

'A formidable talent, a fabulous young writer with a steely wit and razor-sharp eye... Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo is a brilliant and exhilarating read' -- Jewish Quarterly

'Engaging and tender novel... [that] explores universal questions of relationships, belonging, inheritance and the mystery of just who we are' --The Lady

L'autore

Boris Fishman was born in Minsk, Belarus, and immigrated to the United States in 1988 at nine. His journalism, essays, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The London Review of Books, the Guardian, and many other publications. His first novel, A Replacement Life, won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal. He lives in New York.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Pushkin Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0992918235
• ISBN 13: 9780992918231
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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