Kings of the Earth

Jon Clinch

ISBN 10: 1400069017 / ISBN 13: 9781400069019

Editore: Random House, New York, 2010

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Titolo: Kings of the Earth

Casa editrice: Random House, New York

Data di pubblicazione: 2010

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: As New

Condizione sovraccoperta: As New

autografato: Signed by Author(s)

Edizione: 1st Edition

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Riassunto:

A follow-up to Finn is presented from the viewpoints of alternating narrators and traces the story of two elderly upstate New York farmers whose hardscrabble rural life is brought into question after their older brother dies in his sleep.

Recensione:

"To read a book by Jon Clinch is to enter an emotional mineshaft, a place where the darkness is profound and menacing yet lures you on with the promise of untold treasure. Like Finn, Clinch's stunning debut, Kings of the Earth is blunt and brutal yet beautifully told, a classic tale of family kinship twisted askew. It is a fine fable as well, leaving in its wake the resonance of a modern ballad—more Waits than Springsteen—about the fate of America's rural outback."—Julia Glass, author of Three Junes and winner of the National Book Award

"Kings of the Earth is the product of a truly inspired pairing.  By applying Faulkner's pointillism and stream-of-consciousness to the Upstate Gothic, Jon Clinch delivers a rich, involving yarn.  As one character says: 'Out here there is no such thing as a main road . . . Everything winds.'”—Stewart O'Nan, author of Last Night at the Lobster