The Headmaster's Wife
Autor Thomas Christopher Greeneen Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 feb 2014
An immensely talented writer whose work has been described as "incandescent" (Kirkus) and "poetic" (Booklist), Thomas Christopher Greene pens a haunting and deeply affecting portrait of one couple at their best and worst.
Inspired by a personal loss, Greene explores the way that tragedy and time assail one man's memories of his life and loves. Like his father before him, Arthur Winthrop is the Headmaster of Vermont's elite Lancaster School. It is the place he feels has given him his life, but is also the site of his undoing as events spiral out of his control. Found wandering naked in Central Park, he begins to tell his story to the police, but his memories collide into one another, and the true nature of things, a narrative of love, of marriage, of family and of a tragedy Arthur does not know how to address emerges. Luminous and atmospheric, bringing to life the tight-knit enclave of a quintessential New England boarding school, the novel is part mystery, part love story and an exploration of the ties of place and family. Beautifully written and compulsively readable, The Headmaster's Wife stands as a moving elegy to the power of love as an antidote to grief.
"A truly remarkable novel, I read the second half of "The Headmaster's Wife" with my mouth open, my jaw having dropped at the end of the first half. Thomas Christopher Greene knows how to hook a reader and land him." --Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Empire Falls"
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"An accomplished and artful storyteller, Greene has surprises in store as he unspools a plot that becomes as poignant as it is unpredictable." --Wally Lamb, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Hour I First Believed"
"Greene's genre-bending novel of madness and despair evokes both the predatory lasciviousness of Nabokov's classic, "Lolita," and the anxious ambiguity of Gillian Flynn's contemporary thriller, "Gone Girl "(2012)." --"Booklist"
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781250038944
ISBN-10: 1250038944
Pagini: 277
Dimensiuni: 150 x 217 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Thomas Dunne Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1250038944
Pagini: 277
Dimensiuni: 150 x 217 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Thomas Dunne Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Praise for The Headmaster's Wife
"A truly remarkable novel, I read the second half of "The Headmaster's Wife" with my mouth open, my jaw having dropped at the end of the first half. Thomas Christopher Greene knows how to hook a reader and land him." --Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Empire Falls"
"An accomplished and artful storyteller, Greene has surprises in store as he unspools a plot that becomes as poignant as it is unpredictable." --Wally Lamb, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Hour I First Believed"
"I devoured this book. It has all the hooks - a mystery, a marriage, an investigation, a loss, a close-up of a society I'm not privy to - and yet, at its heart, there are unexpected love stories embedded within. Thomas Christopher Greene is a wonderfully accomplished novelist, and "The Headmaster's Wife" is both psychologically complex and wickedly fast-paced." -- Julianna Baggott, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Pure"
Praise for Envious Moon:
"A book as incandescent as it is disturbing... This richly detailed novel, its tone gentle but heavy with foreboding, is a powerful tale of chance, love, loss and redemption." -"Publishers Weekly"
"A stark modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet...but Shakespeare as reinterpreted by Greene still has the power to shock." --"Kirkus"
Praise for I'll Never Be Long Gone:
"Moving... Greene's evocative descriptions of nature, food and love infuse this novel with sensuality and a nostalgia-tinged melancholy... Careful[ly] consider[s] of the burden, and blessing, of legacy." -- "Publishers Weekly"
"Poetic descriptions of [Greene's] native New England and... sumptuous accounts of cooking and cuisine season an otherwise stale tale of loss, legacy, and love." -"Booklist"
"Greene makes us see these things so clearly that they seem like sensual daydreams right there on the page." --"Arizona Republic"
Praise for Mirror Lake:
"Wel
Praise for The Headmaster's Wife"A truly remarkable novel, I read the second half of "The Headmaster's Wife" with my mouth open, my jaw having dropped at the end of the first half. Thomas Christopher Greene knows how to hook a reader and land him." --Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Empire Falls""An accomplished and artful storyteller, Greene has surprises in store as he unspools a plot that becomes as poignant as it is unpredictable." --Wally Lamb, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Hour I First Believed""Incredibly beautiful and compulsively readable, "The Headmaster's Wife" will keep you mesmerized into the wee hours. A master storyteller, Greene's biggest achievement is proving that the most complex mystery of all is how and why we love." --Kimberly McCreight, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Reconstructing Amelia""I devoured this book. It has all the hooks - a mystery, a marriage, an investigation, a loss, a close-up of a society I'm not privy to - and yet, at its heart, there are unexpected love stories embedded within. Thomas Christopher Greene is a wonderfully accomplished novelist, and "The Headmaster's Wife" is both psychologically complex and wickedly fast-paced." -- Julianna Baggott, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Pure" Praise for Envious Moon: "A book as incandescent as it is disturbing... This richly detailed novel, its tone gentle but heavy with foreboding, is a powerful tale of chance, love, loss and redemption." -"Publishers Weekly""A stark modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet...but Shakespeare as reinterpreted by Greene still has the power to shock." --"Kirkus"
Praise for I'll Never Be Long Gone: "Moving... Greene's evocative descriptions of nature, food and love infuse this novel with sensuality and a nostalgia-tinged melancholy... Careful[ly] consider[s] of the burden, and blessing, of legacy." -- "Publishers Weekly""Poetic descriptions of [Greene's] na
Praise for The Headmaster's Wife
"Nothing is what it appears in this brilliant story of a life gone awry... The author's true intentions make this tale even more remarkable, for the book is, at its core, a trenchant examination of one family's terrible loss and how the aftermath of tragedy can make or break a person's soul." -Publishers Weekly"Greene has created a brilliant, harrowing novel depicting the spectacular unraveling of a once distinguished and proudly successful man. He has also conceived one of the most convincingly drawn unreliable narrators that readers may ever meet, a character recalling the creations of Edgar Allan Poe... This is a riveting psychological novel about loss and the terrible mistakes and compromises one can make in love and marriage. Essential for fans of literary fiction." -Library Journal, starred review
"A moving testament to the vicissitudes of love and loss, regret and hope." --Kirkus"A truly remarkable novel, I read the second half of "The Headmaster's Wife" with my mouth open, my jaw having dropped at the end of the first half. Thomas Christopher Greene knows how to hook a reader and land him." --Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Empire Falls""An accomplished and artful storyteller, Greene has surprises in store as he unspools a plot that becomes as poignant as it is unpredictable." --Wally Lamb, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Hour I First Believed""Incredibly beautiful and compulsively readable, "The Headmaster's Wife" will keep you mesmerized into the wee hours. A master storyteller, Greene's biggest achievement is proving that the most complex mystery of all is how and why we love." --Kimberly McCreight, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Reconstructing Amelia" "I devoured this book. It has all the hooks - a mystery, a marriage, an investigation, a loss, a close-up of a society I'm not privy to - and yet, at its heart, there area
Praise for The Headmaster's Wife
"Greene's genre-bending novel of madness and despair evokes both the predatory lasciviousness of Nabokov's classic, "Lolita," and the anxious ambiguity of Gillian Flynn's contemporary thriller, "Gone Girl "(2012)." --"Booklist
""Nothing is what it appears in this brilliant story of a life gone awry... The author's true intentions make this tale even more remarkable, for the book is, at its core, a trenchant examination of one family's terrible loss and how the aftermath of tragedy can make or break a person's soul." -Publishers Weekly"Greene has created a brilliant, harrowing novel depicting the spectacular unraveling of a once distinguished and proudly successful man. He has also conceived one of the most convincingly drawn unreliable narrators that readers may ever meet, a character recalling the creations of Edgar Allan Poe... This is a riveting psychological novel about loss and the terrible mistakes and compromises one can make in love and marriage. Essential for fans of literary fiction." -Library Journal, starred review
"A moving testament to the vicissitudes of love and loss, regret and hope." --Kirkus"A truly remarkable novel, I read the second half of "The Headmaster's Wife" with my mouth open, my jaw having dropped at the end of the first half. Thomas Christopher Greene knows how to hook a reader and land him." --Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Empire Falls""An accomplished and artful storyteller, Greene has surprises in store as he unspools a plot that becomes as poignant as it is unpredictable." --Wally Lamb, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Hour I First Believed""Incredibly beautiful and compulsively readable, "The Headmaster's Wife" will keep you mesmerized into the wee hours. A master storyteller, Greene's biggest achievement is proving that the most complex mystery of all is how and why we love." --Kimberly McCreight, "New York Times
Praise for The Headmaster's Wife"A tightly woven, atmospheric thriller about a New England academic whose life goes off the rails." --"People""Part of a grand literary tradition... But literary overtones notwithstanding, Greene's plot has the tight, relentless pacing of a fine detective novel... Deeply felt... and utterly absorbing." -"Washington Post
""The Headmaster's Wife had me hooked from page one... [it] kept me compulsively turning pages, attempting (and failing) to guess what would happen next... The Headmaster's Wife explores how we create various versions of ourselves based on situations, needs, and instincts. Sometimes, shedding a figurative skin and inhabiting a new one is the only way to move forward in a world where so much is outside of our control. While that's something I hope most readers relate to in theory more than experience, this wise, tender, and gracefully executed literary thriller will no doubt bewitch you too." --"Redbook""Thomas Christopher Greene's haunting tale tracks the unraveling of a marriage. It starts, eerily, with a naked man's arrest in New York City's Central Park, then twists back in time through love, grief, betrayal, and love again." -"Good Housekeeping
""A layered story of love, unbearable loss and grief." -Fort Worth Star-Telegram"[Greene's] prose flow[s] like a thawed stream... Well-crafted." -Providence Journal
"Greene's deft and nimble hand make the story itself a guiltless pleasure to read." -Denver Post
"What seems to be a deceptively simple story about the headmaster of a New England boarding school and his wife, facing late middle age and growing apart over a difference of opinion about their teenage son, morphed into a haunting, mysterious page-turner... A meditation on longing in all of life's stages, a literary mystery, and a novel with much for book clubs to untangle." -Concord Monitor"Greene's genre-bending novel of madness and despair evokes both the predatory lasciviousness of Na
"A truly remarkable novel, I read the second half of "The Headmaster's Wife" with my mouth open, my jaw having dropped at the end of the first half. Thomas Christopher Greene knows how to hook a reader and land him." --Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Empire Falls"
"An accomplished and artful storyteller, Greene has surprises in store as he unspools a plot that becomes as poignant as it is unpredictable." --Wally Lamb, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Hour I First Believed"
"I devoured this book. It has all the hooks - a mystery, a marriage, an investigation, a loss, a close-up of a society I'm not privy to - and yet, at its heart, there are unexpected love stories embedded within. Thomas Christopher Greene is a wonderfully accomplished novelist, and "The Headmaster's Wife" is both psychologically complex and wickedly fast-paced." -- Julianna Baggott, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Pure"
Praise for Envious Moon:
"A book as incandescent as it is disturbing... This richly detailed novel, its tone gentle but heavy with foreboding, is a powerful tale of chance, love, loss and redemption." -"Publishers Weekly"
"A stark modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet...but Shakespeare as reinterpreted by Greene still has the power to shock." --"Kirkus"
Praise for I'll Never Be Long Gone:
"Moving... Greene's evocative descriptions of nature, food and love infuse this novel with sensuality and a nostalgia-tinged melancholy... Careful[ly] consider[s] of the burden, and blessing, of legacy." -- "Publishers Weekly"
"Poetic descriptions of [Greene's] native New England and... sumptuous accounts of cooking and cuisine season an otherwise stale tale of loss, legacy, and love." -"Booklist"
"Greene makes us see these things so clearly that they seem like sensual daydreams right there on the page." --"Arizona Republic"
Praise for Mirror Lake:
"Wel
Praise for The Headmaster's Wife"A truly remarkable novel, I read the second half of "The Headmaster's Wife" with my mouth open, my jaw having dropped at the end of the first half. Thomas Christopher Greene knows how to hook a reader and land him." --Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Empire Falls""An accomplished and artful storyteller, Greene has surprises in store as he unspools a plot that becomes as poignant as it is unpredictable." --Wally Lamb, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Hour I First Believed""Incredibly beautiful and compulsively readable, "The Headmaster's Wife" will keep you mesmerized into the wee hours. A master storyteller, Greene's biggest achievement is proving that the most complex mystery of all is how and why we love." --Kimberly McCreight, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Reconstructing Amelia""I devoured this book. It has all the hooks - a mystery, a marriage, an investigation, a loss, a close-up of a society I'm not privy to - and yet, at its heart, there are unexpected love stories embedded within. Thomas Christopher Greene is a wonderfully accomplished novelist, and "The Headmaster's Wife" is both psychologically complex and wickedly fast-paced." -- Julianna Baggott, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Pure" Praise for Envious Moon: "A book as incandescent as it is disturbing... This richly detailed novel, its tone gentle but heavy with foreboding, is a powerful tale of chance, love, loss and redemption." -"Publishers Weekly""A stark modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet...but Shakespeare as reinterpreted by Greene still has the power to shock." --"Kirkus"
Praise for I'll Never Be Long Gone: "Moving... Greene's evocative descriptions of nature, food and love infuse this novel with sensuality and a nostalgia-tinged melancholy... Careful[ly] consider[s] of the burden, and blessing, of legacy." -- "Publishers Weekly""Poetic descriptions of [Greene's] na
Praise for The Headmaster's Wife
"Nothing is what it appears in this brilliant story of a life gone awry... The author's true intentions make this tale even more remarkable, for the book is, at its core, a trenchant examination of one family's terrible loss and how the aftermath of tragedy can make or break a person's soul." -Publishers Weekly"Greene has created a brilliant, harrowing novel depicting the spectacular unraveling of a once distinguished and proudly successful man. He has also conceived one of the most convincingly drawn unreliable narrators that readers may ever meet, a character recalling the creations of Edgar Allan Poe... This is a riveting psychological novel about loss and the terrible mistakes and compromises one can make in love and marriage. Essential for fans of literary fiction." -Library Journal, starred review
"A moving testament to the vicissitudes of love and loss, regret and hope." --Kirkus"A truly remarkable novel, I read the second half of "The Headmaster's Wife" with my mouth open, my jaw having dropped at the end of the first half. Thomas Christopher Greene knows how to hook a reader and land him." --Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Empire Falls""An accomplished and artful storyteller, Greene has surprises in store as he unspools a plot that becomes as poignant as it is unpredictable." --Wally Lamb, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Hour I First Believed""Incredibly beautiful and compulsively readable, "The Headmaster's Wife" will keep you mesmerized into the wee hours. A master storyteller, Greene's biggest achievement is proving that the most complex mystery of all is how and why we love." --Kimberly McCreight, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Reconstructing Amelia" "I devoured this book. It has all the hooks - a mystery, a marriage, an investigation, a loss, a close-up of a society I'm not privy to - and yet, at its heart, there area
Praise for The Headmaster's Wife
"Greene's genre-bending novel of madness and despair evokes both the predatory lasciviousness of Nabokov's classic, "Lolita," and the anxious ambiguity of Gillian Flynn's contemporary thriller, "Gone Girl "(2012)." --"Booklist
""Nothing is what it appears in this brilliant story of a life gone awry... The author's true intentions make this tale even more remarkable, for the book is, at its core, a trenchant examination of one family's terrible loss and how the aftermath of tragedy can make or break a person's soul." -Publishers Weekly"Greene has created a brilliant, harrowing novel depicting the spectacular unraveling of a once distinguished and proudly successful man. He has also conceived one of the most convincingly drawn unreliable narrators that readers may ever meet, a character recalling the creations of Edgar Allan Poe... This is a riveting psychological novel about loss and the terrible mistakes and compromises one can make in love and marriage. Essential for fans of literary fiction." -Library Journal, starred review
"A moving testament to the vicissitudes of love and loss, regret and hope." --Kirkus"A truly remarkable novel, I read the second half of "The Headmaster's Wife" with my mouth open, my jaw having dropped at the end of the first half. Thomas Christopher Greene knows how to hook a reader and land him." --Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Empire Falls""An accomplished and artful storyteller, Greene has surprises in store as he unspools a plot that becomes as poignant as it is unpredictable." --Wally Lamb, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Hour I First Believed""Incredibly beautiful and compulsively readable, "The Headmaster's Wife" will keep you mesmerized into the wee hours. A master storyteller, Greene's biggest achievement is proving that the most complex mystery of all is how and why we love." --Kimberly McCreight, "New York Times
Praise for The Headmaster's Wife"A tightly woven, atmospheric thriller about a New England academic whose life goes off the rails." --"People""Part of a grand literary tradition... But literary overtones notwithstanding, Greene's plot has the tight, relentless pacing of a fine detective novel... Deeply felt... and utterly absorbing." -"Washington Post
""The Headmaster's Wife had me hooked from page one... [it] kept me compulsively turning pages, attempting (and failing) to guess what would happen next... The Headmaster's Wife explores how we create various versions of ourselves based on situations, needs, and instincts. Sometimes, shedding a figurative skin and inhabiting a new one is the only way to move forward in a world where so much is outside of our control. While that's something I hope most readers relate to in theory more than experience, this wise, tender, and gracefully executed literary thriller will no doubt bewitch you too." --"Redbook""Thomas Christopher Greene's haunting tale tracks the unraveling of a marriage. It starts, eerily, with a naked man's arrest in New York City's Central Park, then twists back in time through love, grief, betrayal, and love again." -"Good Housekeeping
""A layered story of love, unbearable loss and grief." -Fort Worth Star-Telegram"[Greene's] prose flow[s] like a thawed stream... Well-crafted." -Providence Journal
"Greene's deft and nimble hand make the story itself a guiltless pleasure to read." -Denver Post
"What seems to be a deceptively simple story about the headmaster of a New England boarding school and his wife, facing late middle age and growing apart over a difference of opinion about their teenage son, morphed into a haunting, mysterious page-turner... A meditation on longing in all of life's stages, a literary mystery, and a novel with much for book clubs to untangle." -Concord Monitor"Greene's genre-bending novel of madness and despair evokes both the predatory lasciviousness of Na
Notă biografică
THOMAS CHRISTOPHER GREENE is the author of three previous novels: "Mirror Lake," "I'll Never be Long Gone," and "Envious Moon." His fiction has been translated into eleven languages and has won many awards and honors. In 2007, Tom founded the Vermont College of Fine Arts, a top fine arts college, making him the youngest college president in America at that time. He lives in Montpelier, VT, with his family.
Descriere
An immensely talented writer whose work has been described as "incandescent" (Kirkus) and "poetic" (Booklist), Thomas Christopher Greene pens a haunting and deeply affecting portrait of one couple at their best and worst.
Inspired by a personal loss, Greene explores the way that tragedy and time assail one man's memories of his life and loves. Like his father before him, Arthur Winthrop is the Headmaster of Vermont's elite Lancaster School. It is the place he feels has given him his life, but is also the site of his undoing as events spiral out of his control. Found wandering naked in Central Park, he begins to tell his story to the police, but his memories collide into one another, and the true nature of things, a narrative of love, of marriage, of family and of a tragedy Arthur does not know how to address emerges. Luminous and atmospheric, bringing to life the tight-knit enclave of a quintessential New England boarding school, the novel is part mystery, part love story and an exploration of the ties of place and family. Beautifully written and compulsively readable, The Headmaster's Wife stands as a moving elegy to the power of love as an antidote to grief.
"A truly remarkable novel, I read the second half of "The Headmaster's Wife" with my mouth open, my jaw having dropped at the end of the first half. Thomas Christopher Greene knows how to hook a reader and land him." --Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Empire Falls""An accomplished and artful storyteller, Greene has surprises in store as he unspools a plot that becomes as poignant as it is unpredictable." --Wally Lamb, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Hour I First Believed"
"Greene's genre-bending novel of madness and despair evokes both the predatory lasciviousness of Nabokov's classic, "Lolita," and the anxious ambiguity of Gillian Flynn's contemporary thriller, "Gone Girl "(2012)." --"Booklist"
Inspired by a personal loss, Greene explores the way that tragedy and time assail one man's memories of his life and loves. Like his father before him, Arthur Winthrop is the Headmaster of Vermont's elite Lancaster School. It is the place he feels has given him his life, but is also the site of his undoing as events spiral out of his control. Found wandering naked in Central Park, he begins to tell his story to the police, but his memories collide into one another, and the true nature of things, a narrative of love, of marriage, of family and of a tragedy Arthur does not know how to address emerges. Luminous and atmospheric, bringing to life the tight-knit enclave of a quintessential New England boarding school, the novel is part mystery, part love story and an exploration of the ties of place and family. Beautifully written and compulsively readable, The Headmaster's Wife stands as a moving elegy to the power of love as an antidote to grief.
"A truly remarkable novel, I read the second half of "The Headmaster's Wife" with my mouth open, my jaw having dropped at the end of the first half. Thomas Christopher Greene knows how to hook a reader and land him." --Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Empire Falls""An accomplished and artful storyteller, Greene has surprises in store as he unspools a plot that becomes as poignant as it is unpredictable." --Wally Lamb, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Hour I First Believed"
"Greene's genre-bending novel of madness and despair evokes both the predatory lasciviousness of Nabokov's classic, "Lolita," and the anxious ambiguity of Gillian Flynn's contemporary thriller, "Gone Girl "(2012)." --"Booklist"