Schroder: A Novel - Rilegato

Gaige, Amity

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ISBN 10: 1455512133 ISBN 13: 9781455512133

Casa editrice: Twelve, 1960

Riassunto

Attending summer camp as a boy, Erik Schroder-- a first generation East German immigrant--adopts the name of Eric Kennedy, a decision that will set him on an improbable and transformative journey. SCHRODER relates the story of how years later, Erik finds himself on an urgent escape to Lake Champlain, Vermont with his daughter, hiding from authorities amidst a heated custody battle with estranged wife, Laura, who is unaware of his previous identity. From a correctional facility, Erik surveys the course of his life: his love for Laura, his childhood, his experience as a father. In this way, this sweeping and deftly-imagined novel is an exploration of the identities we take on in our lives-those we are born with, and those we construct for ourselves.

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Recensione:

"Complicated and nuanced . . . the novel is absorbing, with a propulsive plot and a narrator who is charming, ambivalent, and searching-a man driven by love who understands that love cannot save him."―The New Yorker

"Enthralling.... Gaige displays an unnerving insight into the grandiosity and fragility of the middle-aged male ego.... SCHRODER is clearly her breakout book. With its psychological acuity, emotional complexity and topical subject matter, it deserves all the success it can find. I wish there were such a thing as a Divorced Couples Book Club just so we could listen in on the tangled responses."―The Washington Post

"Like Nabokov's Humbert Humbert, Schroder is charming and deceptive, likable and flawed, a conman who has a clever way with words. Schroder's tale is deeply engaging, and Gaige's writing is surprising and original, but the real pull of this magnetic novel is the moral ambiguity the reader feels."―People, 4 stars

"Daring...a clean, suspenseful, economical story that is also a clever act of social commentary...As a case study of the unreliable narrator, SCHRODER is beautifully managed...Gaige...is an accomplished writer, and the novel elegantly navigates its ethical razor's edge, brining the reader along on a kind of joyride gone wrong...half sympathy-inducing mea culpa, half a bristling act of bravado and self-ignorance...Novelists like Gaige remind us that we live not in the age of the nineteenth-century marriage plot but in the era of the twenty-first century divorce plot...Gaige writes with a cool strangeness, a strong sense of style...Schroder is by turns dry, peculiar, expansive, and visionary."―Meghan O'Rourke, Bookforum

"On occasion... a novel will provoke a host of tangled and disconcertingly conflicted reactions-revulsion and affection; blame and understanding; a connection that goes beyond surface sympathy to a deeper, and possibly unwanted, emotional recognition. These were among the things I experienced while reading Amity Gaige's astoundingly good novel SCHRODER."―The Wall Street Journal

"Agile. . . transporting . . . a book that works as both character study and morality play, filled with questions that have no easy answers."―Janet Maslin, New York Times

"Gaige's spot-on prose makes this quirky parental drama irresistible."―Good Housekeeping

"Strikingly original."―Reader's Digest

"A lyrical and poetic novel about the adverse ramifications of a little white lie that follows its teller throughout his life."―O, The Oprah Magazine

"It's a mark of how good SCHRODER is that, upon finishing it, I immediately went out and read the rest of her work."―Kathryn Schulz, New York Magazine

Descrizione del libro:

A lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit.

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• Editore: Twelve
• Data di pubblicazione: 1960
• ISBN 10: 1455512133
• ISBN 13: 9781455512133
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 272