Ruby: Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016 - Brossura

Bond, Cynthia

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1473620511 ISBN 13: 9781473620513

Casa editrice: Coronet, 2016

Riassunto

***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS' WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016*** 'LUMINOUS' Guardian 'STUNNING' New York Times 'EXCEPTIONAL' Uzo Aduba (Orange Is The New Black) Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby Bell, "the kind of pretty it hurt to look at," has suffered beyond imagining, so as soon as she can, she flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York. Ruby quickly winds her way into the ripe center of the city-the darkened piano bars and hidden alleyways of the Village-all the while hoping for a glimpse of the red hair and green eyes of her mother. When a telegram from her cousin forces her to return home, thirty-year-old Ruby finds herself reliving the devastating violence of her girlhood. With the terrifying realization that she might not be strong enough to fight her way back out again, Ruby struggles to survive her memories of the town's dark past. Meanwhile, Ephram must choose between loyalty to the sister who raised him and the chance for a life with the woman he has loved since he was a boy. Full of life, exquisitely written, and suffused with the pastoral beauty of the rural South, Ruby is a transcendent novel of passion and courage. This wondrous page-turner rushes through the red dust and gossip of Main Street, to the pit fire where men swill bootleg outside Bloom's Juke, to Celia Jennings's kitchen, where a cake is being made, yolk by yolk, that Ephram will use to try to begin again with Ruby. Utterly transfixing, with unforgettable characters, riveting suspense, and breathtaking, luminous prose, Ruby offers an unflinching portrait of man's dark acts and the promise of the redemptive power of love.

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Recensione:

This is my winner. A story of race and gender set against the backdrop of the spiritualism and small town politics of Liberty, Texas. The soaring, lyrical writing tells a story of cruelty and abuse and it's a heart-wrenching, difficult read at times but there is also magic and hope, and even some humour (Anna James, Elle (Bailey's Shortlist 2016))

Read Ruby by Cynthia Bond... it was exceptional. It was really incredible and very well written. It went into the belly of the beast, and I don't know if I'm fully out of it yet. (Uzo Aduba, star of ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK)

Oprah recommended this book to me, and it is astounding. The writer has such a majestic command of language; she catapults everyday words into rare air with lines that sear into your memory. The characters Ruby and Ephraim shimmer with vibrancy - they show the complications of pain and joy, all messily and beautifully together. A total triumph (Ava DuVernay, Golden Globe-nominated director of SELMA)

luminous... a love story about pure-hearted patience conquering insurmountable odds. Many will compare Ruby to the work of Toni Morrison or Zora Neale Hurston, as Oprah Winfrey has ... but it may be most apt to compare Bond to Gabriel García Márquez. Ruby is woven with magical realism (Ann Friedman The Guardian)

stunning (New York Times)

Bond proves to be a powerful literary force, a writer whose unflinching yet lyrical prose is reminiscent of Toni Morrison's. (O, The Oprah Magazine)

The way she writes is incredible, and from the right page I was like, this is a writer I need to pay attention to (Jen Campbell)

Ruby is an incredibly moving, magical and menacing read that you will feel like you have experienced long after the final page. Bond looks at sexual and domestic abuse, Satanism and the supernatural, interracial racism, legends and myths, sexuality, family secrets and love. All this based in reality, in fact some of the novel is based on Cynthia Bond's own experiences, with an infusion of magical realism... Ruby is one of those books that will leave you as haunted as its characters. That is where its power lies (Simon Savidge, Savidge Reads)

It's a really powerful, really emotional story that tips slightly into the fantastical in a really brilliant way... This novel is really skilfully done and the writing in it is absolutely beautiful. I think it's one of the most beautifully written novels in the group of books in the shortlist (Eric Karl Anderson)

It is one of those books that once you've found it, is difficult to let go... It's a beautiful, hard-hitting, unusual tale of a book and one that stays with you long after the last page. (Annie Miller, Standard Issue)

Descrizione del libro:

***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS' WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016***
PICKED BY OPRAH FOR HER BOOK CLUB 2.0
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING DEBUT
Voodoo, faith and racism converge in an East Texas town, where a man is forced to choose between the sister who raised him and the disgraced woman he has loved since he was a boy.
Can Ephram save Ruby from a town desperate to destroy her? Can hope triumph over pain?

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• Editore: Coronet
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1473620511
• ISBN 13: 9781473620513
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368