Far as the Eye Can See - Brossura

Bausch, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1620402602 ISBN 13: 9781620402603

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury USA, 2015

Riassunto

Bobby Hale is a Union veteran several times over. After the war, he sets his sights on California, but only makes it to Montana. As he stumbles around the West, from the Wyoming Territory to the Black Hills of the Dakotas, he finds meaning in the people he meets--settlers and native people--and the violent history he both participates in and witnesses. Far as the Eye Can See is the story of life in a place where every minute is an engagement in a kind of war of survival, and how two people--a white man and a mixed-race woman--in the midst of such majesty and violence can manage to find a pathway to their own humanity.

Robert Bausch is the distinguished author of a body of work that is lively and varied, but linked by a thoughtfully complicated masculinity and an uncommon empathy. The unique voice of Bobby Hale manages to evoke both Cormac McCarthy and Mark Twain, guiding readers into Indian country and the Plains Wars in a manner both historically true and contemporarily relevant, as thoughts of race and war occupy the national psyche.

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Recensione:

An entertaining old-school western [in] the reluctant-hero tradition of Charles Portis (True Grit). (The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice)

With a setting gleaming with historical accuracy and a protagonist whose voice is right out of Twain, Bausch's novel is a worthy addition to America's Western literary canon, there to share shelf space with The Big Sky, Little Big Man and Lonesome Dove. (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)

As expansive as the country it traverses, Bausch's majestic odyssey through the Old West finds rich nuance in a history often oversimplified . . .The novel's patient, searching first-person narration is finely balanced, with a voice at once straightforward and lyrical, grand and particular. Bausch's characters defy facile judgments; each is sharply distinctive, yet all struggle to find a footing amid the clash of human difference that is, in Bobby Hale's words, the 'most spacious war of all.' (Publishers Weekly)

Bausch's voice is more Mark Twain than Larry McMurtry . . . [He] is perceptive without being preachy, and he grants Hale a wide range of emotions while preserving a recognizable strand of stoic masculinity. (Booklist)

Bausch captures the immense measure of the American landscape . . . Not to be missed by historical fiction fans. (Library Journal)

Characters like the enigmatic yet relatable Bobby Hale are a real prize in literature. . . .Far As the Eye Can See is a superb western with bold ideas, but it is also daring in its ability to build fresh concepts while maintaining the tried-and-true dynamic of humanity emerging within individuals through war. . . A gripping and engaging tale. (Book Reporter)

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[With] a delicacy and subtlety that indicate a mastery of his craft . . . Bausch's profound empathy for his characters, his wise understanding [of] the texture of life . . . contributes to a flawlessly expressed novel. --Publishers Weekly, starred review, on A Hole in the Earth

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• Editore: Bloomsbury USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1620402602
• ISBN 13: 9781620402603
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320