The Night Swimmer: A Novel - Brossura

Bondurant, Matt

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ISBN 10: 1451625308 ISBN 13: 9781451625301

Casa editrice: Scribner, 2012

Riassunto

An “evocative and often lyrical” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel about a young American couple who win a pub on the southernmost tip of Ireland and become embroiled in the local violence and intrigue.

The Night Swimmer, Matt Bondurant’s utterly riveting modern gothic novel of marriage and belonging, confirms his gift for storytelling that transports and enthralls.

In a small town on the southern coast of Ireland, an isolated place only frequented by fishermen and the occasional group of bird-watchers, Fred and Elly Bulkington, newly arrived from Vermont having won a pub in a contest, encounter a wild, strange land shaped by the pounding storms of the North Atlantic, as well as the native resistance to strangers. As Fred revels in the life of a new pubowner, Elly takes the ferry out to a nearby island where anyone not born there is called a “blow-in.” To the disbelief of the locals, Elly devotes herself to open-water swimming, pushing herself to the limit and crossing unseen boundaries that drive her into the heart of the island’s troubles—the mysterious tragedy that shrouds its inhabitants and the dangerous feud between an enigmatic farmer and a powerful clan that has no use for outsiders.

The poignant unraveling of a marriage, the fierce beauty of the natural world, the mysterious power of Irish lore, and the gripping story of strangers in a strange land rife with intrigue and violence—The Night Swimmer is a novel of myriad enchantments by a writer of extraordinary talent.

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Recensione:

A “powerful book....Cheever by way of Mario Puzo and Jorge Luis Borges.” —New York Times Book Review

"Bondurant has given us a group of characters full of life and danger....This is a story that will stay with you." —Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“Bondurant has written another nervy, robust and suspenseful novel.” —Austin American-Statesman

L'autore:

Matt Bondurant’s second novel The Wettest County in the World was a New York Times Editor’s Pick, one of the San Francisco Chronicle’s Best 50 Books of the Year, and has been made into a major motion picture retitled Lawless, to be released in August 2012. His first novel The Third Translation was an international bestseller, translated into fourteen languages worldwide. He currently lives in Texas.

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• Editore: Scribner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1451625308
• ISBN 13: 9781451625301
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288