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Music of the Swamp de Lewis Nordan

Music of the Swamp

Autor Lewis Nordan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 iun 2014

This is not merely a stellar book. It is absolute ballad put to page. "Southern Living"Lewis Nordan s fiction invents its own world--always populated by madly heroic misfits. In "Music of the Swamp, " he focuses his magic and imagination on a boy s utterly helpless love for his utterly hopeless father--a man who attracts bad luck like a magnet. Nordan evokes ten-year-old Sugar Mecklin s world with dazzling clarity: the smells, the tastes, and most surely the sounds of life in this peculiar, somewhat bizarre, Delta town. Sugar discovers that what his daddy says is true: The Delta is filled up with death; but he also finds an endless supply of hope.An ALA Notable BookMississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award"

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781565120167
ISBN-10: 1565120167
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 138 x 208 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Algonquin Books

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This is not merely a stellar book. It is absolute ballad put to page. *

Lewis Nordan s fiction invents its own world--always populated by madly heroic misfits. In Music of the Swamp, he focuses his magic and imagination on a boy s utterly helpless love for his utterly hopeless father--a man who attracts bad luck like a magnet. Nordan evokes ten-year-old Sugar Mecklin s world with dazzling clarity: the smells, the tastes, and most surely the sounds of life in this peculiar, somewhat bizarre, Delta town. Sugar discovers that what his daddy says is true: The Delta is filled up with death; but he also finds an endless supply of hope.

An ALA Notable Book
A Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award

Conjures up a Southern-fried childhood that s as dark, hilarious and affecting as any you re likely to encounter. The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Nordan provoke[s] a cringe of pain right after the belly laugh. His books . . . are very funny and deep-down sad, stirring up great heaps of emotion. New York Newsday

A bittersweet melody syncopated with sadness relieved by moments of all-too-human comedy . . . There is great pain in all love, Sugar eventually concludes, but we don t care, it s worth it. Mr. Nordan s enchanting Music of the Swamp bears poignant witness to that truth. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Nordan introduces a group of characters as wild and woolly, as unpredictable, outrageous and violence-prone as the land that spawns them. Chicago Tribune

Like a hypnotic Bessie Smith ballad, Nordan s book bids you listen. *Southern Living

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Nordan focuses his magic and imagination on a single theme--a boy's utterly helpless love for his utterly hopeless father. "Lyrically conjures up a Southern-fried childhood that's as dark, hilarious, and affecting as any you're likely to encounter".--Cleveland Plain Dealer. 1992 ALA Notable Book.

Notă biografică

Lewis Nordan was a professor of creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh for many years and the author of seven books of fiction and a memoir. His awards include three American Library Association Notable Book citations, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for fiction, the Mississippi Authors Award for fiction, and the Southern Book Critics Award for fiction. He died in 2012.