The Evening Road
Autor Laird Hunten Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 noi 2017
"A
strange,
dazzling
novel,
as
audacious
as
it
is
lyrical,The
Evening
Roadhauls
up
insight,
sorrow,
and
even--somehow--wit
from
the
well
of
American
history."
-
Emma
Donoghue,
bestselling
author
ofRoomandThe
Wonder
"Illuminates
its
time
better
than
any
staid
sepia
period
piece
ever
could."
--New
York
Two
women,
two
secrets:
one
desperate
and
extraordinary
day.
In
the
high
heat
of
an
Indiana
summer,
news
spreads
fast.
When
Marvel,
the
local
county
seat,
plans
to
lynch
three
young
black
men,
word
travels
faster.
It
is
August,
1930,
the
height
of
the
Jim
Crow
era,
and
the
prospect
of
the
spectacle
sends
shockwaves
rumbling
through
farm
country
as
far
as
a
day's
wagon-ride
away.
Ottie
Lee
Henshaw,
a
fiery
small-town
beauty,
sets
out
with
her
lecherous
boss
and
brooding
husband
to
join
in
whatever
fun
there
is
to
be
had.
At
the
opposite
end
of
the
road
to
Marvel,
Calla
Destry,
a
young
African-American
woman
determined
to
escape
the
violence,
leaves
home
to
find
the
lover
who
has
promised
her
a
new
life.
As
the
countryside
explodes
in
frenzied
revelry,
the
road
is
no
place
for
either.
It
is
populated
by
wild-eyed
demagogues,
marauding
vigilantes,
possessed
bloodhounds,
and
even
by
the
Ku
Klux
Klan
itself.
Reminiscent
of
the
works
of
Louise
Erdrich,
Edward
P.
Jones,
and
Marilynne
Robinson,The
Evening
Roadis
the
story
of
two
remarkable
woman
on
the
move
through
an
America
riven
by
fear
and
hatred,
and
eager
to
flee
the
secrets
they
have
left
behind.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316391313
ISBN-10: 031639131X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 143 x 210 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 031639131X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 143 x 210 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
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Notă biografică
Laird
Huntis
the
author,
most
recently,
ofNeverhome,
aNew
York
Times
Book
ReviewEditor's
Choice
selection,
IndieNext
selection,
winner
of
the
Grand
Prix
de
Litterature
Americaine
and
The
Bridge
prize,
and
a
finalist
for
thePrix
Femina
Étranger.
A
resident
of
Boulder,
CO,
he
is
on
the
faculty
in
the
creative
writing
PhD
program
at
the
University
of
Denver,
where
he
edits
theDenver
Quarterly.
Recenzii
"The
three
loosely
related
novels
Laird
Hunt
has
published
since
2012-Kind
One,Neverhome,
andThe
Evening
Road-are
perhaps
my
favorite
body
of
work
by
an
American
author.The
Evening
Roadis
difficult
subject
matter-its
story
revolves
around
a
historical
lynching
in
Indiana-but
its
two
women
narrators
are
both
intensely
memorable
characters,
and
through
them
Hunt
deftly
explores
both
the
present
evils
and
the
possible
grace
of
humanity.—Matt
Bell,New
York
"A strange, dazzling novel, as audacious as it is lyrical,The Evening Roadhauls up insight, sorrow, and even-somehow-wit from the well of American history."—Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room and The Wonder
"Hunt's new book raises his own high bar further with an almost fablelike view of prejudice and cruelty some 60 years after emancipation... Hunt finds history or the big events useful framing devices, but he is more interested in how words can do justice to single players and life's fraught moments. Hunt brings to mind Flannery O'Connor's grotesques and Barry Hannah's bracingly inventive prose and cranks. He is strange, challenging, and a joy to read."—Kirkus (starred review)
"[The Evening Road] illuminates its time better than any staid sepia period piece ever could."—Vulture
"[Hunt's] books share a richness of language and a vividness of imagery that can seriously blow the mind."—Bookpage
"The Evening Roadis a sad and raucous story, ugly and beautiful at once, evocatively starring two very different women."—Shelf Awareness
"Wow! Beautifully crafted, seductive, evocative language and a story that punches you in the gut and lays you low and yet leaves you wanting more. It's rich, deep, dark, harrowing stuff and it does what all great fiction does-it lays ahold of the heart and won't let go. You'll think about this book for weeks, if not years, to come."—Daniel James Brown, bestselling author of The Boys in The Boat
"Not since Miss Jane Pittman have I encountered such strong and admirable characters as Laird Hunt's Ottie Lee Henshaw and Calla Destry. InThe Evening Road, Hunt shows us how love and kindness can and ultimately will prevail over misogyny and racial injustice. This dramatic story of one horrific day in Middle America a century ago is as relevant to our own era as the intolerance, latent and otherwise, that still characterizes all levels of our society.The Evening Roadis both a major literary achievement and a timely and inspiring story in these troubles, latter days."—Howard Frank Mosher, author of A Stranger In The Kingdom
"The book is at once disturbing, highly imaginative and evocative, a tale that is likely to occupy your thoughts well after you close the cover."—The Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"Laird Hunt is one of our great literary stylists."—WYSO's Book Nook
"A strange, dazzling novel, as audacious as it is lyrical,The Evening Roadhauls up insight, sorrow, and even-somehow-wit from the well of American history."—Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room and The Wonder
"The
Evening
Roadis
a
vivid,
disturbing
book,
able
to
subvert
itself
in
half
a
line,
constantly
challenging
the
reader's
expectations.
Its
ghost
map
is
quickly
established
in
the
reader's
head,
and
as
the
characters
fade
into
the
margin
of
the
final
page,
it
is
as
if
an
inner
landscape
has
altered.
It
is
mature,
accomplished,
impressive."
—Hilary
Mantel,
bestselling
author
of
Wolf
Hall"Hunt's new book raises his own high bar further with an almost fablelike view of prejudice and cruelty some 60 years after emancipation... Hunt finds history or the big events useful framing devices, but he is more interested in how words can do justice to single players and life's fraught moments. Hunt brings to mind Flannery O'Connor's grotesques and Barry Hannah's bracingly inventive prose and cranks. He is strange, challenging, and a joy to read."—Kirkus (starred review)
"[The Evening Road] illuminates its time better than any staid sepia period piece ever could."—Vulture
"[Hunt's] books share a richness of language and a vividness of imagery that can seriously blow the mind."—Bookpage
"The Evening Roadis a sad and raucous story, ugly and beautiful at once, evocatively starring two very different women."—Shelf Awareness
"Wow! Beautifully crafted, seductive, evocative language and a story that punches you in the gut and lays you low and yet leaves you wanting more. It's rich, deep, dark, harrowing stuff and it does what all great fiction does-it lays ahold of the heart and won't let go. You'll think about this book for weeks, if not years, to come."—Daniel James Brown, bestselling author of The Boys in The Boat
"Not since Miss Jane Pittman have I encountered such strong and admirable characters as Laird Hunt's Ottie Lee Henshaw and Calla Destry. InThe Evening Road, Hunt shows us how love and kindness can and ultimately will prevail over misogyny and racial injustice. This dramatic story of one horrific day in Middle America a century ago is as relevant to our own era as the intolerance, latent and otherwise, that still characterizes all levels of our society.The Evening Roadis both a major literary achievement and a timely and inspiring story in these troubles, latter days."—Howard Frank Mosher, author of A Stranger In The Kingdom
"The book is at once disturbing, highly imaginative and evocative, a tale that is likely to occupy your thoughts well after you close the cover."—The Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"Laird Hunt is one of our great literary stylists."—WYSO's Book Nook
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Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw. Quick of mind and pleasing to the eye, she navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and on one day in the summer of 1920, an odyssey across the countryside to witness a dark and fearful celebration.
Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw. Quick of mind and pleasing to the eye, she navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and on one day in the summer of 1920, an odyssey across the countryside to witness a dark and fearful celebration.