Epilogue: A Memoir - Brossura

Will Boast

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1847088201 ISBN 13: 9781847088208

Casa editrice: Granta Books, 2015

Riassunto

When Will Boast's father dies he is alone in the world: an American with distant English roots, orphaned, and derailed by grief. Everything he thought he knew about his parents unravels when he discovers he has two half-brothers living in England. In exquisite prose Will Boast sets about piecing together a new sense of himself, attempting as he does to understand, forgive and heal the mistakes of his father's past.

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Recensione:

[S]pellbinding [Boast s] affecting journey, related without sentimentality or self-pity, is not so much about his need for family as it is a candid reflection on loneliness and personal identity. --Jonathan Fullmer"

'Spare and lyrical, this is a bittersweet memoir of home truths and homecoming' --'Book of the Month', Psychologies

'It's honest, heartbreaking, gorgeously written, and hands down the most moving book I've read so far this year' --Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

'This is not a bleak book, even though it's sad, and readers will enjoy Boast's Stateside view of British cultural oddities. You end up liking him a lot, too' **** --Sunday Express

'A heartbreakingly raw but gracefully constructed Bildungsroman' --Independent

L'autore:

WILL BOAST was born in England and grew up in Ireland and Wisconsin. His short story collection, Power Ballads, won the 2011 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for a California Book Award. His fiction and essays have appeared in Best New American Voices and the New York Times, among other publications. He has been a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University and a Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia in the UK.

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• Editore: Granta Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1847088201
• ISBN 13: 9781847088208
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288