Wise Men
Autor Stuart Nadleren Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 feb 2014
Hilly Wise is the son of one of the wealthiest and most powerful lawyers in the United States. When Hilly meets Savannah, a young black girl, on the beach at Cape Cod during the summer of 1952, his affection for her collides with his father's secrets. The result shatters his family, and hers.
Years later, Hilly sets out to find Savannah and to right the wrongs he helped set in motion. But can his sense of guilt, and his good intentions, overcome the forces of history, family, and identity? A multi-generational story about love and regret, the evolving struggle for racial dignity, and the crushing weight of familial obligation, WISE MEN confirms that Stuart Nadler is one of the most exciting young writers at work today.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316126496
ISBN-10: 0316126497
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 0316126497
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
Notă biografică
Stuart
Nadler
is
a
recipient
of
the
5
Under
35
Award
from
the
National
Book
Foundation.
A
graduate
of
the
Iowa
Writers'
Workshop,
where
he
was
awarded
a
Truman
Capote
Fellowship
and
a
Teaching-Writing
Fellowship,
he
was
also
the
Carol
Houck
Smith
Fiction
Fellow
at
the
University
of
Wisconsin.
He
is
the
author
of
the
story
collection,The
Book
of
Life.
Recenzii
PRAISE
FORWISE
MEN:
"A tense, evocative, page-turning saga of the bruising encounters between two families across the 'colour line' over half a century. Every conversation rings painfully, beautifully true."—Emma Donoghue, author ofRoom
"Wise Menreads like a classic; it is a completely engrossing novel, one that scars the reader's heart in the most satisfying way. In confident, unpretentious prose, Nadler tackles the complexity of racial tension and fifties mores in a manner reminiscent of Harper Lee and Carson McCullers, and in a smart, misses-nothing style that summons comparisons to Salinger and Cheever. Hilton Wise is a winsome and compelling narrator, one you'll find yourself rooting for days after finishing the book. Nadler's deft rendering of place, namely a secluded compound in coastal Massachusetts, allows the reader to become completely lost in Hilly's world.Wise Menis, at its core, a brutal love story, full of surprise and conviction, insight and deception, staggering wealth and loss, truth and beauty."—Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of BIRDS OF A LESSER PARADISE
"Stuart Nadler's first novel zooms and dips like an airplane with a trick pilot, one in complete control of his loop-de-loops. I have no doubt that Stuart Nadler is going to be one of our great novelists, and it all starts here, on a dune in Cape Cod, with the Wise men. These characters-knotted together with obligation, guilt, and love-will stay with me always."—Emma Straub, author of OTHER PEOPLE WE MARRIED and LAURA LAMONT'S LIFE IN PICTURES
"Wise Menis a brilliantly plotted and carefully observed novel that takes the reader deep inside a powerful family's most guarded secrets. An epic saga about a son's need to atone for the sins of his father and the sins of his own troubled youth. The driving heart of this ambitious novel is an impossible romance: one worth risking an entire outrageous fortune. With wisdom and compassion, Nadler examines the mysteries and manners of unrequited love.Wise Menconfirms that Stuart Nadler is a writer of abundant talent and grace."—Amber Dermont, author of theNew York Timesbestseller The Starboard Sea
"Stuart Nadler is an elegant writer and a compelling storyteller.Wise Menexplores the big questions in life---love and money and race and identity---in a story packed with secrets, longings, and obsessions. It is not a book to be missed."—Vanessa Diffenbaugh, author of theNew York Timesbestseller The Language of Flowers
"While Stuart Nadler's ambitious debut novel touches on money, class, race and religion, first and foremostWise Menis about youth, betrayal and regret. In his idealism and denial, Hilly Wise, the poor little rich boy, is a truly American character, and the perfect narrator for the tale."—Stewart O'Nan, author ofEmily, AloneandThe Odds
"Genuinely moving."—Boston Globe
"A tense, evocative, page-turning saga of the bruising encounters between two families across the 'colour line' over half a century. Every conversation rings painfully, beautifully true."—Emma Donoghue, author ofRoom
"Wise Menreads like a classic; it is a completely engrossing novel, one that scars the reader's heart in the most satisfying way. In confident, unpretentious prose, Nadler tackles the complexity of racial tension and fifties mores in a manner reminiscent of Harper Lee and Carson McCullers, and in a smart, misses-nothing style that summons comparisons to Salinger and Cheever. Hilton Wise is a winsome and compelling narrator, one you'll find yourself rooting for days after finishing the book. Nadler's deft rendering of place, namely a secluded compound in coastal Massachusetts, allows the reader to become completely lost in Hilly's world.Wise Menis, at its core, a brutal love story, full of surprise and conviction, insight and deception, staggering wealth and loss, truth and beauty."—Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of BIRDS OF A LESSER PARADISE
"Stuart Nadler's first novel zooms and dips like an airplane with a trick pilot, one in complete control of his loop-de-loops. I have no doubt that Stuart Nadler is going to be one of our great novelists, and it all starts here, on a dune in Cape Cod, with the Wise men. These characters-knotted together with obligation, guilt, and love-will stay with me always."—Emma Straub, author of OTHER PEOPLE WE MARRIED and LAURA LAMONT'S LIFE IN PICTURES
"Wise Menis a brilliantly plotted and carefully observed novel that takes the reader deep inside a powerful family's most guarded secrets. An epic saga about a son's need to atone for the sins of his father and the sins of his own troubled youth. The driving heart of this ambitious novel is an impossible romance: one worth risking an entire outrageous fortune. With wisdom and compassion, Nadler examines the mysteries and manners of unrequited love.Wise Menconfirms that Stuart Nadler is a writer of abundant talent and grace."—Amber Dermont, author of theNew York Timesbestseller The Starboard Sea
"Stuart Nadler is an elegant writer and a compelling storyteller.Wise Menexplores the big questions in life---love and money and race and identity---in a story packed with secrets, longings, and obsessions. It is not a book to be missed."—Vanessa Diffenbaugh, author of theNew York Timesbestseller The Language of Flowers
"While Stuart Nadler's ambitious debut novel touches on money, class, race and religion, first and foremostWise Menis about youth, betrayal and regret. In his idealism and denial, Hilly Wise, the poor little rich boy, is a truly American character, and the perfect narrator for the tale."—Stewart O'Nan, author ofEmily, AloneandThe Odds
"Genuinely moving."—Boston Globe