Cuddy: Winner of the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize
Autor Benjamin Myersen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2024
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781526631466
ISBN-10: 1526631466
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1526631466
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
The international bestselling author Benjamin Myers returns with the novel of his career: a wondrous, exhilarating, deeply affecting novel about Northern England's mysterious past and its confounding present. Perfect for fans of Max Porter's Lanny (TCM: 42,000), George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo (TCM: 85,000) and Richard Powers' The Overstory (TCM: 104,000)
Notă biografică
Benjamin Myers was born in Durham in 1976. He is the author of ten books, including The Offing, which was an international bestseller and selected for the Radio 2 Book Club; The Gallows Pole, which won the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction and has been adapted as a BBC series by Shane Meadows; Beastings which was awarded the Portico Prize for Literature, and Pig Iron which won the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize. He has also published non-fiction, poetry and crime novels and his journalism has appeared in publications including the Guardian, New Statesman, TLS, Caught by the River and many more. He lives in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire. benjaminmyerswriter.com / @BenMyers1
Recenzii
It's been a while since I've reacted as emotionally to a novel ... An epic the north has long deserved: ambitious, dreamy, earthy, dark, welcoming and not ... There are readers like me who will not just enjoy this book but feel deeply grateful for its existence
A visionary epic which covers a millennium of English history and employs poetry and prose, playscript and pastiche to trace the story of St Cuthbert, the building of Durham Cathedral and the contemporary northern landscape
This bold, experimental novel, which uses poetry as much as prose, won this year's Goldsmiths prize
A polyphonic hymn to a very specific landscape and its people. At the same time, it deepens his standing as an arresting chronicler of a broader, more mysterious seam of ancient folklore that unites the history of these isles as it's rarely taught
A genre-blending, millennia-straddling history ... A bold story about faith and nationhood that upends preconceptions of the ''historical novel"
Myers' playful, form- and genre-bending tale about St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ... The author is known for his grasp of language and elegiac take on history and the natural world - all of which are put to excellent use in a novel that spans poetry, prose, historical accounts and more
A dizzyingly inventive retelling of St Cuthbert's life
Myers is maturing into a serious writer rather than just a sombre one. Cuddy is an ambitious and accomplished novel that shows it's not - necessarily - grim up north
A bold novel that whirls us through a dizzying range of poetic and prosaic styles
One of the best books I have ever read, easily top 5 status . Innovative, clever, engaging and fresh - and my book of the year
There's much to enjoy in the novel's linguistic beauty ... Cuddy explores the endurance of goodness and grace
A sensational piece of storytelling . The symbiosis of poetry and story, of knowledge and deep love, marks out Cuddy as a singular and significant achievement
Five atmospheric episodes - and an interlude - illustrate the mystical hold that Cuthbert has exerted over the north
Mesmerising, lyrical ... Stands in a genre of its own ... Serves as a reminder that we are but custodians of a world we inherited. Cuddy cements Myers's standing as one of our finest, and most deftly imaginative, writers
Myers traces . the manifold threads of history to remarkable effect
The cathedral is a wonder . in its elegance and grotesquery, its shimmering and its solidity, Myers captures it accurately. Indeed, that could be a description of his book
As a work of literature and as a tribute to a man and his region, it will endure
Marvellous, artful, enchanted ... With power and pathos, this novel follows the cult of St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne from the 7th century to the present day
One of the best books I have ever read
Brave, bold and brilliantly alive, Cuddy calls forth the voices and the places of the north in a kaleidoscopic portrait through time. Myers at his best: dark, sharp, earthy and superbly funny. Cuddy isn't a novel, it's an invocation
Spare, poetic, haunting, tenderly observed ... Myers is a natural storyteller ... [with] a poetic sensibility, and as a writer he enjoys the snap and crunch of words, and the way they can summon an atmosphere
A wonder ... An accomplished and very moving novel
Incorporates poetry, prose, play, diary and real historical accounts to create a novel like no other
Myers employs competing voices and different literary styles to pull together an ephemeral yet somehow tangible narrative that is both sweeping in its history and arresting in its style
Myers chisels a cohesive and engaging portrait of a place laden with history
An absorbingly beautiful book ... There aren't many writers as attuned to the present state of this country and the history and landscape that made it as Myers, who succeeds repeatedly in harnessing time with compassion, kindness and a rare gift for finding the right voice for the right people in the right era
Cuddy is a work of art. Ben Myers has pulled off a kind of magic trick ... Daring, expansive and deeply satisfying, Cuddy is a truly original piece of writing which weaves a special kind of magic. I was left completely spellbound. I loved every minute of this dazzling and deeply original novel
Once again Ben Myers has built another time machine in words and I thoroughly enjoyed being humped around early medieval northern England alongside St Cuthbert's holy corpse via centuries of fisticuffs and up Durham Cathedrals tower to a sensitive take on issues of our own time. Most of all I appreciated how Myers explores faith and belief without the usual eyeroll and cynicism of our excessively secular age - I feel St Cuthbert's monks and masons looking down through history with a certain sense of pride
Cuddy is another milestone marking Myers' versatility as a writer
Rich, rewarding, dark and comic, Cuddy is, like that cathedral, a magnificent construction
To be able to move from the Dark Ages, to the Middle Ages, to the Victorian Era to Modern Times and so ably capture the zeitgeist of each is a rare feat of imagination
Praise for Benjamin Myers: A writer of extraordinary and incandescent talent
A genre-melding experimental novel
Here is a strong, spiritual writer who sees and loves every dewdrop, old oak, soft little animal and buried sword, and offers them up to us like the precious treasures they are
No one writes about the atmosphere, beauty and brutality of the English countryside better than Benjamin Myers. And it's hard to think of many people who can write with such attentiveness, tenderness and force about the importance of human connection and the redemptive power of art
One of the most interesting, restless writers of his generation
Shot through with a romantic, even mystical radicalism of the kind that William Blake would have approved of
What a radical thing, these days, to have written a book so full of warmth and kindness ... Gorgeous
Benjamin Myers is fast making the contested boundary between history and folklore his own
A powerful new voice
Book by book, over the past decade, Ben Myers has proved himself to be one of the most singular, moving and crucial voices of our times
A draft of cool, clear water ... He's such a good and brave writer
Powerful and moving
A visionary epic which covers a millennium of English history and employs poetry and prose, playscript and pastiche to trace the story of St Cuthbert, the building of Durham Cathedral and the contemporary northern landscape
This bold, experimental novel, which uses poetry as much as prose, won this year's Goldsmiths prize
A polyphonic hymn to a very specific landscape and its people. At the same time, it deepens his standing as an arresting chronicler of a broader, more mysterious seam of ancient folklore that unites the history of these isles as it's rarely taught
A genre-blending, millennia-straddling history ... A bold story about faith and nationhood that upends preconceptions of the ''historical novel"
Myers' playful, form- and genre-bending tale about St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ... The author is known for his grasp of language and elegiac take on history and the natural world - all of which are put to excellent use in a novel that spans poetry, prose, historical accounts and more
A dizzyingly inventive retelling of St Cuthbert's life
Myers is maturing into a serious writer rather than just a sombre one. Cuddy is an ambitious and accomplished novel that shows it's not - necessarily - grim up north
A bold novel that whirls us through a dizzying range of poetic and prosaic styles
One of the best books I have ever read, easily top 5 status . Innovative, clever, engaging and fresh - and my book of the year
There's much to enjoy in the novel's linguistic beauty ... Cuddy explores the endurance of goodness and grace
A sensational piece of storytelling . The symbiosis of poetry and story, of knowledge and deep love, marks out Cuddy as a singular and significant achievement
Five atmospheric episodes - and an interlude - illustrate the mystical hold that Cuthbert has exerted over the north
Mesmerising, lyrical ... Stands in a genre of its own ... Serves as a reminder that we are but custodians of a world we inherited. Cuddy cements Myers's standing as one of our finest, and most deftly imaginative, writers
Myers traces . the manifold threads of history to remarkable effect
The cathedral is a wonder . in its elegance and grotesquery, its shimmering and its solidity, Myers captures it accurately. Indeed, that could be a description of his book
As a work of literature and as a tribute to a man and his region, it will endure
Marvellous, artful, enchanted ... With power and pathos, this novel follows the cult of St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne from the 7th century to the present day
One of the best books I have ever read
Brave, bold and brilliantly alive, Cuddy calls forth the voices and the places of the north in a kaleidoscopic portrait through time. Myers at his best: dark, sharp, earthy and superbly funny. Cuddy isn't a novel, it's an invocation
Spare, poetic, haunting, tenderly observed ... Myers is a natural storyteller ... [with] a poetic sensibility, and as a writer he enjoys the snap and crunch of words, and the way they can summon an atmosphere
A wonder ... An accomplished and very moving novel
Incorporates poetry, prose, play, diary and real historical accounts to create a novel like no other
Myers employs competing voices and different literary styles to pull together an ephemeral yet somehow tangible narrative that is both sweeping in its history and arresting in its style
Myers chisels a cohesive and engaging portrait of a place laden with history
An absorbingly beautiful book ... There aren't many writers as attuned to the present state of this country and the history and landscape that made it as Myers, who succeeds repeatedly in harnessing time with compassion, kindness and a rare gift for finding the right voice for the right people in the right era
Cuddy is a work of art. Ben Myers has pulled off a kind of magic trick ... Daring, expansive and deeply satisfying, Cuddy is a truly original piece of writing which weaves a special kind of magic. I was left completely spellbound. I loved every minute of this dazzling and deeply original novel
Once again Ben Myers has built another time machine in words and I thoroughly enjoyed being humped around early medieval northern England alongside St Cuthbert's holy corpse via centuries of fisticuffs and up Durham Cathedrals tower to a sensitive take on issues of our own time. Most of all I appreciated how Myers explores faith and belief without the usual eyeroll and cynicism of our excessively secular age - I feel St Cuthbert's monks and masons looking down through history with a certain sense of pride
Cuddy is another milestone marking Myers' versatility as a writer
Rich, rewarding, dark and comic, Cuddy is, like that cathedral, a magnificent construction
To be able to move from the Dark Ages, to the Middle Ages, to the Victorian Era to Modern Times and so ably capture the zeitgeist of each is a rare feat of imagination
Praise for Benjamin Myers: A writer of extraordinary and incandescent talent
A genre-melding experimental novel
Here is a strong, spiritual writer who sees and loves every dewdrop, old oak, soft little animal and buried sword, and offers them up to us like the precious treasures they are
No one writes about the atmosphere, beauty and brutality of the English countryside better than Benjamin Myers. And it's hard to think of many people who can write with such attentiveness, tenderness and force about the importance of human connection and the redemptive power of art
One of the most interesting, restless writers of his generation
Shot through with a romantic, even mystical radicalism of the kind that William Blake would have approved of
What a radical thing, these days, to have written a book so full of warmth and kindness ... Gorgeous
Benjamin Myers is fast making the contested boundary between history and folklore his own
A powerful new voice
Book by book, over the past decade, Ben Myers has proved himself to be one of the most singular, moving and crucial voices of our times
A draft of cool, clear water ... He's such a good and brave writer
Powerful and moving