Angels of Detroit
Autor Christopher Heberten Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 sep 2016
Once an example of American industrial might, Detroit has gone bankrupt, its streets dark, its storefronts vacant. Miles of city blocks lie empty, saplings growing through the cracked foundations of abandoned buildings.
In razor-sharp, beguiling prose, Angels of Detroit draws us into the lives of multiple characters struggling to define their futures in this desolate landscape: a scrappy group of activists trying to save the city with placards and protests; a curious child who knows the blighted city as her own personal playground; an elderly great-grandmother eking out a community garden in an oil-soaked patch of dirt; a carpenter with an explosive idea of how to give the city a new start; a confused idealist who has stumbled into debt to a human trafficker; a weary corporate executive who believes she is doing right by the city she remembers at its prime--each of their desires is distinct, and their visions for a better city are on a collision course.
In this propulsive, masterfully plotted epic, an urban wasteland whose history is plagued with riots and unrest is reimagined as an ambiguous new frontier--a site of tenacity and possible hope. Driven by struggle and suspense, and shot through with a startling empathy, Christopher Hebert's magnificent second novel unspools an American story for our time.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781632863638
ISBN-10: 1632863634
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1632863634
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Caracteristici
Deeply
lived
and
researched,
from
a
writer
who
grew
up
in
struggling
Syracuse,
spent
time
throughout
the
Rust
Belt,
and
found
himself
inexorably
drawn
to
Detroit
while
earning
his
MFA
in
Ann
Arbor.
(This
also
distinguishes
it
from
Hebert's
previous,
historical
novel.)
Notă biografică
Christopher
Hebertis
the
author
of
the
novelThe
Boiling
Season,
winner
of
the
of
the
2013
Friends
of
American
Writers
award.
His
short
fiction
and
nonfiction
have
appeared
in
such
publications
asFiveChapters,Cimarron
Review,Narrative,Interview,
and
theMillions.
He
is
a
graduate
of
the
University
of
Michigan
and
is
editor-at-large
for
the
University
of
Michigan
Press.
Hebert
is
currently
the
Jack
E.
Reese
Writer-in-Residence
at
the
University
of
Tennessee
Libraries
and
lives
in
Knoxville,
Tennessee.
Recenzii
Written
in
evocative
prose
with
careful
detail,
this
is
a
veracious
portrayal
of
a
decimated
city.
It
moves
at
an
exciting
pace,
the
various
plot
threads
braiding
rapidly.
Most
poignant
is
the
insight
offered
about
those
fighting
to
amend
the
damage.
These
characters
are
flawed
and
more
appealing
for
it.
Perhaps
Hebert
intends
to
suggest
that
this
is
true
of
the
city
itself.
An
expansive
yet
intimate
tale
of
the
efforts
made
to
save
a
decaying
Detroit.
Hebert tells this story through the interactions of eleven major characters whose lives intersect in subtle and suspenseful ways. . . . [He] wonderfully brings out his ensemble's human qualities, whether they're fearful, compassionate, or tenacious.
Hebert's powerful novel will produce chills. . . . Scrambling for viable options, Hebert's current residents [of Detroit]--activists, planners, takers, opportunists, and optimists still living in a city that looks war-gutted--are undertaking to shake off the shroud of how-did-this-happen and discover renewed vigor. Hebert's tenacious prose . . . drives the narrative and brings characters . . . to visceral life.
Ambitious, well-paced, observant--Angels of Detroitis a first-rate novel of flawed but admirable characters who want a brighter future in what one of them calls 'the new Old West.'
Written with vivid compassion, Hebert's characters represent Detroit's many generations, races, and socioeconomic divisions. As their lives intersect, a multifaceted Detroit takes shape: a city to grieve, and a city just getting started.
A humbler, more endearing bunch of rainbow-hued misfits never fumbled their broken-hearted way towards revolution than those we meet in Christopher Hebert's Angels of Detroit--truly a novel of our moment, both in the way it stares unsentimentally at the real trouble we are in--a world of poisoned children and cities in ruins--and in the deep and detailed empathy it shows for characters of every class and provenance. Hebert gets Detroit right, in this beautifully made book: his careful drawing of its physical catastrophe locates the city at the exact boundary between gritty-real and surreal, between last hope and post-apocalyptic nightmare.
Set in a city that's either deteriorating beyond hope or rising from the ashes,Angels of Detroitpulls off the magic trick of all great fiction: it makes the world we live in now seem both wondrous and strange.
Christopher Hebert's prose is as incantatory as it is precise, summoning forth a city dreamlike in its strangeness but unmistakably grounded in living reality. Few contemporary writers invoke the secret landscapes of American cities this well. . . . An exciting addition to the new canon of brave contemporary novels devoted to our twenty-first century lives, its every page bearing witness to the dark, desperately digging for hope, the work of a fine novelist writing unflinching before all the good and the bad, the ugly and the ultimately beautiful.
Angels of Detroitis an unforgettable take on one of America's great urban tragedies. Its ruins are real and devastating, crowded with magnificent characters, shot through with passion, alive with history, drama, and courage. I read this novel urgently, feeling wonder on every page.
Hebert's varied and vividly-drawn ensemble cast brings to life a portrait of Detroit so multifaceted that it is, really, an original literary vision of late-capitalist America. Damning, true, prophetic:Angels of Detroitis also compelling, driven by an authentic realism and intricate plotting that is --literally--explosive. A profoundly satisfying novel about vital issues driven by living characters--about whom I will be thinking for a long time.
So completely did I fall for the misfits and idealists that populateAngels of Detroitthat more than once I found myself on Google Maps, seeking signs of their real life counterparts, infusing that beleaguered city with hope. Christopher Hebert's wondrous novel brims and bristles with the rarest of fictional qualities: raw humanity.
A testament to the complexities of Detroit--as well as Hebert's dedication to portraying the city with honesty and integrity . . . The book has garnered praise for its prose, but it is also rich with plot.
Hebert tells this story through the interactions of eleven major characters whose lives intersect in subtle and suspenseful ways. . . . [He] wonderfully brings out his ensemble's human qualities, whether they're fearful, compassionate, or tenacious.
Hebert's powerful novel will produce chills. . . . Scrambling for viable options, Hebert's current residents [of Detroit]--activists, planners, takers, opportunists, and optimists still living in a city that looks war-gutted--are undertaking to shake off the shroud of how-did-this-happen and discover renewed vigor. Hebert's tenacious prose . . . drives the narrative and brings characters . . . to visceral life.
Ambitious, well-paced, observant--Angels of Detroitis a first-rate novel of flawed but admirable characters who want a brighter future in what one of them calls 'the new Old West.'
Written with vivid compassion, Hebert's characters represent Detroit's many generations, races, and socioeconomic divisions. As their lives intersect, a multifaceted Detroit takes shape: a city to grieve, and a city just getting started.
A humbler, more endearing bunch of rainbow-hued misfits never fumbled their broken-hearted way towards revolution than those we meet in Christopher Hebert's Angels of Detroit--truly a novel of our moment, both in the way it stares unsentimentally at the real trouble we are in--a world of poisoned children and cities in ruins--and in the deep and detailed empathy it shows for characters of every class and provenance. Hebert gets Detroit right, in this beautifully made book: his careful drawing of its physical catastrophe locates the city at the exact boundary between gritty-real and surreal, between last hope and post-apocalyptic nightmare.
Set in a city that's either deteriorating beyond hope or rising from the ashes,Angels of Detroitpulls off the magic trick of all great fiction: it makes the world we live in now seem both wondrous and strange.
Christopher Hebert's prose is as incantatory as it is precise, summoning forth a city dreamlike in its strangeness but unmistakably grounded in living reality. Few contemporary writers invoke the secret landscapes of American cities this well. . . . An exciting addition to the new canon of brave contemporary novels devoted to our twenty-first century lives, its every page bearing witness to the dark, desperately digging for hope, the work of a fine novelist writing unflinching before all the good and the bad, the ugly and the ultimately beautiful.
Angels of Detroitis an unforgettable take on one of America's great urban tragedies. Its ruins are real and devastating, crowded with magnificent characters, shot through with passion, alive with history, drama, and courage. I read this novel urgently, feeling wonder on every page.
Hebert's varied and vividly-drawn ensemble cast brings to life a portrait of Detroit so multifaceted that it is, really, an original literary vision of late-capitalist America. Damning, true, prophetic:Angels of Detroitis also compelling, driven by an authentic realism and intricate plotting that is --literally--explosive. A profoundly satisfying novel about vital issues driven by living characters--about whom I will be thinking for a long time.
So completely did I fall for the misfits and idealists that populateAngels of Detroitthat more than once I found myself on Google Maps, seeking signs of their real life counterparts, infusing that beleaguered city with hope. Christopher Hebert's wondrous novel brims and bristles with the rarest of fictional qualities: raw humanity.
A testament to the complexities of Detroit--as well as Hebert's dedication to portraying the city with honesty and integrity . . . The book has garnered praise for its prose, but it is also rich with plot.