The Furies: A Novel - Rilegato

Eberstadt, Fernanda

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ISBN 10: 0375412565 ISBN 13: 9780375412561

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2003

Riassunto

Gwen, a successful Manhattanite living it up during the 1990s boom, falls in love with a puppeteer and watches her life unravel as their relationship stirs up silt from a past she has tried desperately to escape.

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Fernanda Eberstadt's novel is luminous --- not in its magic, although it is
magical, but in its reality: she pecks the eggshell from inside and out. The
book is full of surprises --- and then I had the delight of discovering that
they weren't surprises at all. Everything she writes proves true. She also
happens to write with nearly unbearable honesty about womanhood; the passion and
astonishment of motherhood; the distance that separates women from everything
and everything else."
-- Susanna Moore

“An amazing, fiercely erotic novel, with stretches that are more gripping than anything I’ve read since The Corrections. No other writer has captured our recent American past — the 90’s boom years — so vividly or with such detail and force. Spellbinding reading.”
-- Bret Easton Ellis

“Ms. Eberstadt’s latest effort, The Furies, veers pretty close to genius. ...Eberstadt is an expert, sensual, and at times truly breathtaking conjurer of New York City.”
-- New York Observer

“Unsparing...In a densely allusive, insistently metaphoric prose style, Eberstadt brilliantly employs a form of hectoring direct address to both her protagonists.....[The] plot gains great depth from two exhaustively penetrating characterizations and from Ebersadt’s virtual genius for ironically precise summary statement.”

-Kirkus

“A novelist of exhilarating wit, incandescent metaphors, moral curiosity, and deep-sea psychology. Eberstadt’s mythic and piercing tragedy belongs beside the work of Franzen, Chabon, even DeLillo.”
-- Booklist

“Eberstadt achieves a roil of dark effects in her fourth novel....The author’s gift for acutely rendered detail captivates... Eberstadt’s no-mercy approach is unique and harrowing.”
-Publishers Weekly

“The novel’s prose — taut, fresh and vividly descriptive — can be a positive delight. Like Tom Wolfe, Eberstadt is a precise and witty observer of life in Manhattan.”
-- New York Times Book Review

L'autore:

Fernanda Eberstadt is the author of three novels, When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth, Low Tide, and Isaac and His Devils. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Commentary. She was born in New York City and was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. She presently lives in the French Pyrenees with her husband and two children.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0375412565
• ISBN 13: 9780375412561
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 451