Amity & Sorrow: A Novel
Autor Peggy Rileyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 feb 2014
A
page-turning
literary
debut
about
a
mother
and
her
two
teenage
daughters
escaping
a
cult
and
starting
over.
Two
sisters
sit
in
the
backseat
of
a
car,
bound
at
the
wrists
by
a
strip
of
white
cloth.
Their
mother,
Amaranth,
drives
for
days
without
pause,
desperate
to
get
away
from
the
husband
she
fears
will
follow
them
to
the
earth's
end.
Her
daughters,
Amity
and
Sorrow,
cannot
comprehend
why
they're
fleeing
or
fathom
what
exists
outside
their
father's
polygamous
compound.
When
an
exhausted
Amaranth
crashes
their
car
in
rural
Oklahoma,
rescue
arrives
in
the
form
of
Bradley,
a
farmer
not
unfamiliar
with
loss
and
uncertain
futures.
At
first
mistrustful
of
the
strange,
prayerful
trio,
Bradley
allows
his
abiding
tolerance
to
get
the
best
of
him,
and
the
four
become
a
new
kind
of
family.
Full of achingly beautiful prose, AMITY & SORROW is a mesmerizing debut about belief, redemption, and the dark heart of extreme faith.
Full of achingly beautiful prose, AMITY & SORROW is a mesmerizing debut about belief, redemption, and the dark heart of extreme faith.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316220873
ISBN-10: 0316220876
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 0316220876
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
Notă biografică
Peggy
Riley
is
a
writer
and
playwright.
She
recently
won
a
Highly
Commended
prize
in
the
2011
Bridport
Prize.
Her
short
fiction
has
been
broadcast
on
BBC
Radio
and
has
been
published
in
"New
Short
Stories
4",
Mslexia
Magazine,
and
as
an
app
on
Ether
Books.
Her
plays
have
been
commissioned
and
produced
off-West
End,
regionally
and
on
tour.
She
has
been
a
festival
producer,
a
bookseller,
and
writer-in-residence
at
a
young
offender's
prison.
Originally
from
Los
Angeles,
Peggy
now
lives
on
the
North
Kent
coast
in
Britain.
She
is
currently
working
on
her
second
novel,
which
will
be
set
in
the
women's
internment
camp
on
the
Isle
of
Man
during
WWII.
Recenzii
"Amity
&
Sorrow,
grace
and
hope,
honor
and
innocence,
bliss
and
deliverance-all
of
this
from
one
beautifully
nuanced
story
about
the
nature
of
family
and
the
power
of
faith.
I
savored
every
word."—Lori
Lansens,
author
of
The
Girls
"A beautiful and terrifying book. Peggy Riley tells a complex and enthralling tale of family love and religious belief with uncommon wisdom, grace, and skill."—Sigrid Nunez, author of The Last of Her Kind
"Amity & Sorrowis a startlingly original, intelligent and beautiful first novel that I found riveting from page one. I can only wait with great anticipation for what comes next from Peggy Riley."—Michael Connelly, author of The Black Box
"Fierce and disturbing.... Riley's debut novel is a harsh but compassionate look at nature vs. nurture through the lens of a polygamous cult."—Publishers Weekly(Starred Review)
"[An] accomplished, harrowing debut.... Riley's descriptive prose is rich in metaphor.... [and] the haunting literary drama simmers to a boil as it deftly navigates issues of family, faith, community, and redemption."—Ann Kelley, Booklist (Starred Review)
"A literary page-turner.... Her writing is clear, crisp, chilling..."—Reader's Digest
"Fierce and disturbing.... A harsh but compassionate look at nature vs. nurture."—The Washington Examiner
"Gripping.... a must-read for book lovers."—Ladies Home Journal
A powerful book about hope and redemption, as well as the perils of unquestioned belief and obedience."—SheKnows.com
"[A] shimmering first novel.... This delicately stitched, finely patterned and poetic novel suggests there is a tipping point at which human resilience disappears.... Riley has a gift for metaphor that gives this novel loft, and a rhythmic way of swinging from present to past."—Dylan Landis,New York Times Book Review
"Hooks readers from its riveting opening.... What makes AMITY & SORROW so fascinating is Riley's compassionate portrayal of these women...each emotion is captured exquisitely. This novel is not sensationalist, but rather realistic and frightening as it captures the horrors of real-life cults."—Megan Fishmann, Bookpage
"Harrowing, suspenseful and insightful, this is a stunning meditation on innocence lost and good turned evil."—Donna Marchetti, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A beautiful and terrifying book. Peggy Riley tells a complex and enthralling tale of family love and religious belief with uncommon wisdom, grace, and skill."—Sigrid Nunez, author of The Last of Her Kind
"Amity & Sorrowis a startlingly original, intelligent and beautiful first novel that I found riveting from page one. I can only wait with great anticipation for what comes next from Peggy Riley."—Michael Connelly, author of The Black Box
"Fierce and disturbing.... Riley's debut novel is a harsh but compassionate look at nature vs. nurture through the lens of a polygamous cult."—Publishers Weekly(Starred Review)
"[An] accomplished, harrowing debut.... Riley's descriptive prose is rich in metaphor.... [and] the haunting literary drama simmers to a boil as it deftly navigates issues of family, faith, community, and redemption."—Ann Kelley, Booklist (Starred Review)
"A literary page-turner.... Her writing is clear, crisp, chilling..."—Reader's Digest
"Fierce and disturbing.... A harsh but compassionate look at nature vs. nurture."—The Washington Examiner
"Gripping.... a must-read for book lovers."—Ladies Home Journal
A powerful book about hope and redemption, as well as the perils of unquestioned belief and obedience."—SheKnows.com
"[A] shimmering first novel.... This delicately stitched, finely patterned and poetic novel suggests there is a tipping point at which human resilience disappears.... Riley has a gift for metaphor that gives this novel loft, and a rhythmic way of swinging from present to past."—Dylan Landis,New York Times Book Review
"Hooks readers from its riveting opening.... What makes AMITY & SORROW so fascinating is Riley's compassionate portrayal of these women...each emotion is captured exquisitely. This novel is not sensationalist, but rather realistic and frightening as it captures the horrors of real-life cults."—Megan Fishmann, Bookpage
"Harrowing, suspenseful and insightful, this is a stunning meditation on innocence lost and good turned evil."—Donna Marchetti, Cleveland Plain Dealer