Far as the Eye Can See
Autor Robert Bauschen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 aug 2015
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781620402603
ISBN-10: 1620402602
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 140 x 208 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury USA
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1620402602
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 140 x 208 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury USA
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Historical fiction at its finest: Taking us from the Civil War to the Battle of Little Bighorn, across a thrilling swatch of the West, Far as the Eye Can See is written in prose that is never precious or grandiose, but fresh, funny, and vivid.
Notă biografică
Robert Bausch is the author of six novels and one collection of short stories. They include Almighty Me (optioned for film and eventually adapted as Bruce Almighty), A Hole in the Earth (a New York Times Notable and Washington Post Favorite Book of the Year), and Out of Season (also a Washington Post Favorite). He was born in Georgia and raised around Washington, D.C. Educated at George Mason University (BA, MA, MFA), he has taught at UVA, American, George Mason, and Johns Hopkins, and most recently at Northern Virgina Community College. In 2005, he won the Fellowship of Southern Writers' Hillsdale Award for Fiction for his body of work. In 2009, he was awarded the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, also for sustained achievement. He lives in Virginia.
Recenzii
An entertaining old-school western [in] the reluctant-hero tradition of Charles Portis (True Grit).
With a setting gleaming with historical accuracy and a protagonist whose voice is right out of Twain, Bausch's novel is a worthy addition to America's Western literary canon, there to share shelf space with The Big Sky, Little Big Man and Lonesome Dove.
As expansive as the country it traverses, Bausch’s majestic odyssey through the Old West finds rich nuance in a history often oversimplified . . .The novel’s patient, searching first-person narration is finely balanced, with a voice at once straightforward and lyrical, grand and particular. Bausch’s characters defy facile judgments; each is sharply distinctive, yet all struggle to find a footing amid the clash of human difference that is, in Bobby Hale’s words, the ‘most spacious war of all.'
Bausch’s voice is more Mark Twain than Larry McMurtry . . . [He] is perceptive without being preachy, and he grants Hale a wide range of emotions while preserving a recognizable strand of stoic masculinity.
Bausch captures the immense measure of the American landscape . . . Not to be missed by historical fiction fans.
Characters like the enigmatic yet relatable Bobby Hale are a real prize in literature. . . .Far As the Eye Can See is a superb western with bold ideas, but it is also daring in its ability to build fresh concepts while maintaining the tried-and-true dynamic of humanity emerging within individuals through war. . . A gripping and engaging tale.
With a setting gleaming with historical accuracy and a protagonist whose voice is right out of Twain, Bausch's novel is a worthy addition to America's Western literary canon, there to share shelf space with The Big Sky, Little Big Man and Lonesome Dove.
As expansive as the country it traverses, Bausch’s majestic odyssey through the Old West finds rich nuance in a history often oversimplified . . .The novel’s patient, searching first-person narration is finely balanced, with a voice at once straightforward and lyrical, grand and particular. Bausch’s characters defy facile judgments; each is sharply distinctive, yet all struggle to find a footing amid the clash of human difference that is, in Bobby Hale’s words, the ‘most spacious war of all.'
Bausch’s voice is more Mark Twain than Larry McMurtry . . . [He] is perceptive without being preachy, and he grants Hale a wide range of emotions while preserving a recognizable strand of stoic masculinity.
Bausch captures the immense measure of the American landscape . . . Not to be missed by historical fiction fans.
Characters like the enigmatic yet relatable Bobby Hale are a real prize in literature. . . .Far As the Eye Can See is a superb western with bold ideas, but it is also daring in its ability to build fresh concepts while maintaining the tried-and-true dynamic of humanity emerging within individuals through war. . . A gripping and engaging tale.