The Day That Went Missing: A Family's Story
Autor Richard Bearden Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 noi 2018
Winner
of
the
PEN/Ackerley
Prize
2018
On a family summer holiday in Cornwall in 1978, Richard and his younger brother Nicholas are jumping in the waves. Suddenly, Nicholas is out of his depth. One moment he's there, the next he's gone.
Richard and his other brothers don't attend the funeral, and incredibly the family returns immediately to the same cottage - to complete the holiday, to carry on, in the best British tradition. They soon stop speaking of the catastrophe. Their epic act of collective denial writes Nicky out of the family memory.
Nearly forty years later, Richard, an acclaimed novelist, is haunted by the missing piece of his childhood, the unexpressed and unacknowledged grief at his core. He doesn't even know the date of his brother's death or the name of the beach where the tragedy occurred. So he sets out on a pain-staking investigation to rebuild Nicky's life, and ultimately to recreate the precise events on the day of the accident.
The Day That Went Missingis a transcendent story of guilt and forgiveness, of reckoning with unspeakable loss. But, above all, it is a brother's most tender act of remembrance, and a man's brave act of survival.
On a family summer holiday in Cornwall in 1978, Richard and his younger brother Nicholas are jumping in the waves. Suddenly, Nicholas is out of his depth. One moment he's there, the next he's gone.
Richard and his other brothers don't attend the funeral, and incredibly the family returns immediately to the same cottage - to complete the holiday, to carry on, in the best British tradition. They soon stop speaking of the catastrophe. Their epic act of collective denial writes Nicky out of the family memory.
Nearly forty years later, Richard, an acclaimed novelist, is haunted by the missing piece of his childhood, the unexpressed and unacknowledged grief at his core. He doesn't even know the date of his brother's death or the name of the beach where the tragedy occurred. So he sets out on a pain-staking investigation to rebuild Nicky's life, and ultimately to recreate the precise events on the day of the accident.
The Day That Went Missingis a transcendent story of guilt and forgiveness, of reckoning with unspeakable loss. But, above all, it is a brother's most tender act of remembrance, and a man's brave act of survival.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316445382
ISBN-10: 031644538X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 149 x 219 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 031644538X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 149 x 219 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
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Notă biografică
Richard
Beard's
six
novels
include
Lazarus
is
Dead,
Dry
BonesandDamascus,
which
was
aNew
York
TimesNotable
Book
of
the
Year.
In
the
UK
he
has
been
shortlisted
for
the
BBC
National
Short
Story
Award
and
longlisted
for
the
Sunday
Times
EFG
Private
Bank
Short
Story
Award.
His
latest
novel,Acts
of
the
Assassinswas
shortlisted
for
the
Goldsmiths
Prize
in
2015.
He
is
also
the
author
of
four
books
of
narrative
non-fiction.
Formerly
Director
of
The
National
Academy
of
Writing
in
London,
he
is
a
Visiting
Professor
at
the
University
of
Tokyo,
and
has
a
Creative
Writing
Fellowship
at
the
University
of
East
Anglia.
Recenzii
Shortlisted
for
the
National
Book
Critics
Circle
Award
Shortlisted
for
the
James
Tait
Black
Prize
and
the
Rathbones
Folio
Prize
"Beard,a novelist, takes a deeper look at the worst day of his family's life, when hisyounger brother drowned during their seaside vacation; the examination is bothterribly moving and somehow life-affirming."—Boston Globe
"A memoir of real truth and heartbreaking emotional heft"—Sunday Times
"A touching, painful disquisition on memory and forgetting and the tendrils that tie us to the past."—Guardian
"This haunting book is a profoundly moving study of memory, denial andgrief."—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"...heartfelt,heartbreaking and heartless."—Jim Crace,The New Statesman
"Beard'sstunning memoir tells the tragic story of his family's 1978 vacation and thesubsequent 40 years he spent forgetting it.... [Beard's] beautifully writtenstory is heartbreaking and unforgettable as he struggles with the grief hechose to forget and, now, attempts to remember again."—Publisher's Weekly
"Meticulously crafted and searingly honest, Beard's narrative is at oncea story about the long and difficult road to self-forgiveness and a commentaryon the wages of British emotional repression. A quietly brooding and intensememoir of family and reckoning with the past."—Kirkus Reviews
"This is a fascinating book, the story of a child'saccidental death and how an English family dealt with it - or rather, didn'tdeal with it. Clear-eyed, very sad, funny at times and, despite the story it tells, ultimatelyuplifting in its determination to confront buried truths."—Sebastian Faulks, author ofBirdsongandWhere My Heart Used to Beat
"Spellbinding,terrifying, deeply moving, Richard Beard'sThe Day That Went Missingisa masterpiece. Fueled by Beard's dark humor and lacerating intelligence, thisferociously original memoir examines the ways in which we create mythologies tohelp us cope with unbearable tragedy. I basically stopped breathing on page oneand didn't start again until I'd reached the book's devastating conclusion."—Joanna Rakoff, author ofMy Salinger Year
"RichardBeard writes with the urgency and simplicity that attend a profoundrelationship with grief, and in his struggle to understand his brother's deathhe uses prose that rivets our attention, even as he both savors and examines awound he knows he will carry with him until the end of time."—Kate Mulgrew, actor and author ofBorn with Teeth
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*WINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2018*My younger brother's name is Nicholas Beard. SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2018`This captivating book, both heart-rending and jaw-dropping, unfolds like a detective story' Daily Mail`A memoir of real truth and heartbreaking emotional heft' Sunday Times
*WINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2018*My younger brother's name is Nicholas Beard. SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2018`This captivating book, both heart-rending and jaw-dropping, unfolds like a detective story' Daily Mail`A memoir of real truth and heartbreaking emotional heft' Sunday Times