Nightwoods - Rilegato

Frazier, Charles

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1444731246 ISBN 13: 9781444731248

Casa editrice: Sceptre, 2011

Riassunto

The main lesson Luce had learned was that you couldn't count on anybody. In the lonesome beauty of the forest, across the far shore of the mountain lake from town, Luce acts as caretaker to an empty, decaying Lodge, a relic of holidaymakers a century before. Her days are long and peaceful, her nights filled with Nashville radio and yellow lights shimmering on the black water. A solitary life, and the perfect escape. Until the stranger children come. Bringing fire. And murder. And love.

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His best book to date . . . Frazier's exquisitely efficient style is matched by some finely tuned suspense . . . And the climactic pursuit through the darkened forest of the book's title proves to be gripping without ever descending into gothic melodrama. (The Sunday Times)

Charles Frazier's third novel is as accomplished as his first two . . . In anyone else's hands, this might turn out to be a gripping but ultimately forgettable thriller. Frazier, however, is a writer whose spare prose paradoxically oozes atmosphere - you can almost smell the verdant pine trees and hear the crack of the twigs underfoot . . . Beneath the chilling, photogenic story, the writing remains beautiful. (Independent)

[Frazier's] great strength, as well as presenting us with a fully realized physical backdrop, is the tenderness with which he renders the relationships at the core of this book, creating a compelling meditation on violence and the possibility that human love can heal even the deepest wound. (Publishers Weekly)

Frazier's taut prose, superb sense of place and timing and suspense-inducing skills save this from being just another thriller. (Daily Mail)

Its dazzling sentences are so meticulously constructed that you find yourself rereading them, trying to unpack their magic . . . By the book's climactic scenes in the shadowy mountain forest that gives NIGHTWOODS its title, the unhurried, poetic suspense is both difficult to bear and impossible to shake. (Entertainment Weekly)

The sense of drama slowly engulfs the reader like a mountain fog moving down a valley. It has heaps of atmosphere and texture. (www.thebookbag.co.uk)

Lyrical . . . written in understated, poetic prose. (Herald)

It's Walden by way of Cormac McCarthy, a bleak southern Gothic landscape that Frazier describes in a stark language of elision (Financial Times)

There's an almost rarefied atmosphere to this novel . . . mostly the breathless delight comes from Frazier's poetic sensibility towards the brutality and beauty of nature. My advice on NIGHTWOODS is to soak up the purity of Frazier's prose before Hollywood gets a look in. (Sunday Telegraph)

Extraordinary (Independent on Sunday)

L'autore

Charles Frazier grew up in the mountains of North Carolina. COLD MOUNTAIN, his highly acclaimed first novel, was an international bestseller, selling over one million copies and winning the National Book Award in 1997. It was the inspiration for the Oscar-winning film directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, and Renee Zellweger.

A second novel, THIRTEEN MOONS, was published by Sceptre in 2007 and NIGHTWOODS, Charles' latest novel set in a lakeside town in 1960s North Carolina, was published in September 2011. To find out more, visit Charles' Facebook page www.facebook.com/CharlesFrazierAuthor or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/Charles_Frazier.

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• Editore: Sceptre
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1444731246
• ISBN 13: 9781444731248
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 272