West - Rilegato

Carys Davies

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ISBN 10: 1783784229 ISBN 13: 9781783784226

Casa editrice: Granta Books, 2018

Riassunto

When Cy Bellman, American settler and widowed father of Bess, reads in the newspaper that huge ancient bones have been discovered in a Kentucky swamp, he leaves his small Pennsylvania farm and young daughter to find out if the rumours are true: that the giant monsters are still alive, and roam the uncharted wilderness beyond the Mississippi River. West is the story of Bellman's journey and of Bess, waiting at home for her father to return. Written with compassionate tenderness and magical thinking, it explores the courage of conviction, the transformative power of grief, the desire for knowledge and the pull of home, from an exceptionally talented and original British writer. It is a radiant and timeless epic-in-miniature, an eerie, electric monument to possibility.

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Recensione

'Immensely engaging and beautifully written, this short debut novel is a miniature masterpiece... Scenes sparkle with wry comedy... menace looms and ordeals are braved amid breathtaking landscapes'--Sunday Times Books of the year 2018

'West has all the stark power and immediacy of a folk-tale or a legend. It is also structured with great artistry, a beguiling sense of form and pace, and a depth in the way the characters are created, making clear that Carys Davies is a writer of immense talent'-- Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn
'West is a journey and a wonder. A story concerned with value and language, love and absence, life and death. A debut of real distinction' -- Bernard MacLaverty, author of Midwinter Break
'Wonderful'-- --Sarah Jessica Parker, Girlboss
'Slender, stark and utterly mesmerising...'-- Mail on Sunday
'Short, incredible, violent, uplifting and empowering - how Davies manages to create such an enduring story in 150 pages is a mystery, but she nails it.'-- --Stylist
'Exquisite, continent, utterly vivid, this short novel will live on in your imagination long after you read the last page'-- --Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl

L'autore

Carys Davies's short stories have been widely published in magazines and anthologies and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. They have won the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, the Society of Authors' Olive Cook Award, the Royal Society of Literature's V S Pritchett Prize, and a Northern Writers' Award, and her second collection, The Redemption of Galen Pike, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2015. She lives with her family in Lancaster, England.

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• Editore: Granta Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1783784229
• ISBN 13: 9781783784226
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 160