Eleven Days - Rilegato

Carpenter, Lea

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ISBN 10: 1444776231 ISBN 13: 9781444776232

Casa editrice: Two Roads, 2013

Riassunto

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014

'SUPERB', SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, LONDON EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2013

Eleven Days is, at its heart, the story of a mother and a son.
It begins in May 2011: Sara's son Jason has been missing for nine days in the aftermath of a special operations forces mission. Out of devotion to him, Sara has made herself knowledgeable about things military, but she knows nothing more about her son's disappearance than the press corps camped out in her driveway.
In a series of flashbacks we learn about Jason's absentee father - a man who died, according to "insiders," helping to make the country safer - and Jason's decision to join the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis after 9/11 and enter into the toughest military training in the world: for the U.S. Naval Special Warfare's Navy SEAL Teams.
Through letters Jason wrote his mother while training, we see him becoming a strong, compassionate leader. But his fate will be determined by events that fall outside the sphere of his training, and far outside the strong embrace of his mother's love.
As well as a touching picture of the bond between a mother and a son this is a unique look into the training, history and culture of one of the world's elite forces. Page-turning and haunting, this is an astonishing debut which questions the very nature of sacrifice and love.

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A deeply affecting story about a mother and a son that attests to the debut of an extraordinarily gifted writer... Ms. Carpenter makes palpable the immensely complicated emotional arithmetic that binds this mother and son - Sara's cherishing of her only son and her knowledge that she needs to let him find his own way in life; Jason's worries about his mother's worries, clashing up against his passionate embrace of a dangerous profession. In doing so Ms. Carpenter has written a novel that maps - much the way that Jayne Anne Phillips's classic Machine Dreams and Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country did - the fallout that war has not just on soldiers, who put their lives on the line, but also on their families, who wait anxiously back home. (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)

A superb novel of war, love and US special forces. (Simon Sebag Montefiore, London Evening Standard (Books of the Year 2013))

A compelling story made memorable by the strength of its elegant prose. (Toni Morrison)

Lea Carpenter's Eleven Days is an extraordinary accomplishment. Written with an elegant precision, this book is at its core a story about love: between a mother and a son, a son and a father, and a special group of men for each other and the imperfect country they choose to serve. I highly recommend it. (Kevin Powers, bestselling author of THE YELLOW BIRDS)

What Denis Johnson did for the Vietnam War in Tree of Smoke, Lea Carpenter does for Iraq and Afghanistan in her superb Eleven Days. At the core of this extraordinary novel is the love of a mother for her child. That's the story of us all, and that's the story that may well break your heart. (Ben Fountain, author of BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK)

[An] earnest first novel ... Carpenter provides a convincing portrait of an exclusive and exclusively male military subculture, and of the men formed and deformed by it. (New York Times)

Toni Morrison is a fan of this novel by one of the original editors of Francis Ford Coppola's lit mag Zoetrope. The story of a boy who applies to naval academy after 9/11 and then goes missing the same night of the Bin Laden raid. Think Homeland in fiction form and you get some idea of the twists and turns of this novel about the military and the nature of sacrifice and love. (Viv Groskop, Red Magazine)

The nature of courage, sacrifice, love and heroism are all considered in this powerful ... debut. For all its Hollywood sheen, it is as determined to educate as it is to entertain. It's a mission that Lea Carpenter executes coolly in precise and elegant prose. (Daily Mail)

An assured debut novel... [An] affecting portrayal of maternal love at a time of war. (Vogue)

Exhaustively researched and skilfully written...Carpenter tells an important story - Eleven Days has all the precision and artistry of the Navy SEALs she depicts... precise, considered prose... the novel pays a necessary tribute to those who risk the ultimate sacrifice and the loved ones left to come to terms with that loss... a gut-wrenching tale of grief. (Stylist)

Descrizione del libro

A stunning debut novel-unexpected, tautly written, suspenseful-that touches on some of the most profound questions we have about war as it tells us a haunting story of a single mother, and her son, a member of the US Special Operations Forces.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Two Roads
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1444776231
• ISBN 13: 9781444776232
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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