Shine Shine Shine

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 iun 2013

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L.A. Times Book Prize (2012), Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (2013)

When Maxon met Sunny he was seven years, four months, and eighteen days old. Now, twenty years later, they are married, and Sunny wants, more than anything, to be "normal." She's got the housewife thing down perfectly, but Maxon, a genius engineer, is on a NASA mission to the moon, programming robots for a new colony.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781250020413
ISBN-10: 1250020417
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 139 x 210 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: GRIFFIN

Notă biografică

LYDIA NETZER was born in Detroit and educated in the Midwest. She lives in Virginia with her two home-schooled children and math-making husband. When she isn't teaching, reading, or writing her next novel, she plays the guitar in a rock band.

Recenzii

"Not only entertaining, but nuanced and wise...blending wit and imagination with an oddly mesmerizing, matter-of-fact cadence, Netzer's debut is a delightfully unique love story and a resounding paean to individuality." --"People" (People Pick)"Netzer's storytelling method is as poetic as her language. She slowly assembles a multitude of pinpoint insights that converge to form a glimmering constellation...a stellar, thought-provoking debut" --"The New York Times Book Review""Over the moon with a metaphysical spin. Heart-tugging...it is struggling to understand the physical realities of life and the nature of what makes us human....Nicely unpredictable...Extraordinary." --Janet Maslin, "The New York Times""You're pulled into the drama through the incredible natural beauty of her writing ... deftly and wittily done ... people say her style reminds them of Anne Tyler, but she reminded me a little bit more of Don DeLillo." --Liesl Schillinger, "The New York Times Book Review "Podcast"Entirely winning...a refreshingly weird story about the exuberant weirdness of familial love." --"The Wall Street Journal""Netzer deftly illuminates the bonds that transcend shortcomings and tragedy. Characterized by finely textured emotions and dramatic storytelling, Netzer's world will draw readers happily into its orbit." --"Publishers Weekly""Netzer has beautifully crafted an original story with a cast of characters who make up an unconventional but strangely believable family...This story will shine, shine, shine for all adult readers." --"Library Journal," starred review"The novel traces Maxon and Sunny's relationship from their childhoods in Burma and Appalachia to outer space, revealing the futility of chasing an ideal of what's normal..."Shine Shine Shine "breaks free of the gravitational pull of traditional romantic cliches." --"The Washington Post""Lydia Netzer's luminous debut novel concerns what lies beneath society's pretty surfaces -- Sunny's congen

Descriere

A debut unlike any other, "Shine Shine Shine" is a shocking, searing, breathless love story, about how a woman's perfect life comes crashing down after one untimely fender bender and whose relationship is tested with a dangerous, gripping portrait of modern family.

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L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, 2012
Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize Finalist, 2013

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