A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
Autor John Gregory Brownen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 aug 2017
"A beautiful, haunting novel."--Tom Franklin
"John Gregory Brown is a writer I've long admired, and this new novel is his best book yet. A Thousand Miles from Nowhere is a marvelous depiction of one man's stumbling journey from despair toward a hard-won redemption."--Ron Rash
"You have lost everything, yes?" Everything? Henry thought; he considered the word. Had he lost everything?
Fleeing New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Henry Garrett is haunted by the ruins of his marriage, a squandered inheritance, and the teaching job he inexplicably quit. He pulls into a small Virginia town after three days on the road, hoping to silence the ceaseless clamor in his head. But this quest for peace and quiet as the only guest at a roadside motel is destroyed when Henry finds himself at the center of a bizarre and violent tragedy. As a result, Henry winds up stranded at the ramshackle motel just outside the small town of Marimore, and it's there that he is pulled into the lives of those around him: Latangi, the motel's recently widowed proprietor, who seems to have a plan for Henry; Marge, a local secretary who marshals the collective energy of her women's church group; and the family of an old man, a prisoner, who dies in a desperate effort to provide for his infirm wife.
For his previous novels John Gregory Brown has been lauded for his "compassionate vision of human destiny" as well as his "melodic, haunting, and rhythmic prose." With A THOUSAND MILES FROM NOWHERE, he assumes his place in the tradition of such masterful storytellers as Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy, offering to readers a tragicomic tour de force about the power of art and compassion and one man's search for faith, love, and redemption.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316302838
ISBN-10: 031630283X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Lee Boudreaux / Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 031630283X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Lee Boudreaux / Back Bay Books
Notă biografică
Born
and
raised
in
New
Orleans,
John
Gregory
Brown
is
the
author
of
the
novelsDecorations
in
a
Ruined
Cemetery;The
Wrecked,
Blessed
Body
of
Shelton
Lafleur;
andAudubon's
Watch.
For
two
decades
he
has
taught
and
directed
the
creative
writing
program
at
Sweet
Briar
College,
in
Virginia,
where
he
serves
as
the
Julia
Jackson
Nichols
Professor
of
English.
He
and
his
wife,
the
novelist
Carrie
Brown,
have
three
children.
Recenzii
"Grace
is
the
main
course
special
here.
It
comes
with
a
serving
of
greatness
and
a
side
of
grit,
with
all
the
essential
condiments:
wit,
soul,
and
heart.
A
new
kind
of
road
novel
for
a
new
South:
Brown
is
a
storyteller
I'd
follow
anywhere."—Elisa
Albert,
author
of
After
Birth
"John Gregory Brown is a writer I've long admired, and this new novel is his best book yet.A Thousand Miles from Nowhereis a marvelous depiction of one man's stumbling journey from despair toward a hard-won redemption."--Ron Rash
"A soulful musing on art, love and sanity, and on art's power to redeem. A beautiful, haunting novel."--Tom Franklin, bestselling author ofCrooked Letter, Crooked Letter
"Writing in rowdy, beautiful prose like some latter-day combination of Walker Percy and Gram Parsons, like some kind of grievous angel himself, John Gregory Brown blends his repeated themes of loss, longing, accident, catastrophe and psychosis into the most original and moving novel you cannot even imagine---a novel much more like a jazz suite than a book. Each memorable character gets his own solo, riffs which combine into a surprising and dazzling finale for this memorable work of art."-Lee Smith,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Last Girls
"Populated by likable and believable characters, an affectionate, understated approach to questions of sanity, survival, and redemption."-Kirkus
"A Thousand Miles from Nowhereis a charming portrait of how redemption can appear in the most unlikely circumstances."--Shelf Awareness
"Brown has a deft way of writing about loss and redemption, at once physical and immediate. The result is palpable, and the relief as Henry once more finds his narrative--the thread that holds his story together--is profound."--Boston Globe
Praise forAudubon's Watch
"Brown's ambition and achievement inAudubon's Watchlie in the sensual effects of his ornate, overripe language... It's a brazen performance that few authors would have the skill or courage to risk."
"It is a rare sensation to encounter an American novel so concerned with the beauty of language and focused on the moral topography of love; these concerns giveAudubon's Watchits fundamental strength."
—Chicago Tribune
"John Gregory Brown is an engaging, highly readable, and compassionate storyteller. Now he proves himself a masterly architect of plot, narrative, and theme inAudubon's Watch... Breathtaking, compelling, and infinitely rewarding."
—Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
"John Gregory Brown is a writer I've long admired, and this new novel is his best book yet.A Thousand Miles from Nowhereis a marvelous depiction of one man's stumbling journey from despair toward a hard-won redemption."--Ron Rash
"A soulful musing on art, love and sanity, and on art's power to redeem. A beautiful, haunting novel."--Tom Franklin, bestselling author ofCrooked Letter, Crooked Letter
"Writing in rowdy, beautiful prose like some latter-day combination of Walker Percy and Gram Parsons, like some kind of grievous angel himself, John Gregory Brown blends his repeated themes of loss, longing, accident, catastrophe and psychosis into the most original and moving novel you cannot even imagine---a novel much more like a jazz suite than a book. Each memorable character gets his own solo, riffs which combine into a surprising and dazzling finale for this memorable work of art."-Lee Smith,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Last Girls
"Populated by likable and believable characters, an affectionate, understated approach to questions of sanity, survival, and redemption."-Kirkus
"A Thousand Miles from Nowhereis a charming portrait of how redemption can appear in the most unlikely circumstances."--Shelf Awareness
"Brown has a deft way of writing about loss and redemption, at once physical and immediate. The result is palpable, and the relief as Henry once more finds his narrative--the thread that holds his story together--is profound."--Boston Globe
Praise forAudubon's Watch
"Brown's ambition and achievement inAudubon's Watchlie in the sensual effects of his ornate, overripe language... It's a brazen performance that few authors would have the skill or courage to risk."
"It is a rare sensation to encounter an American novel so concerned with the beauty of language and focused on the moral topography of love; these concerns giveAudubon's Watchits fundamental strength."
—Chicago Tribune
"John Gregory Brown is an engaging, highly readable, and compassionate storyteller. Now he proves himself a masterly architect of plot, narrative, and theme inAudubon's Watch... Breathtaking, compelling, and infinitely rewarding."
—Arkansas Democrat-Gazette