The Story of Land and Sea (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
320
Utgivningsdatum
2015-07-30
Förlag
The Borough Press
Dimensioner
197 x 130 x 20 mm
Vikt
273 g
ISBN
9780007564002

The Story of Land and Sea

av Katy Simpson Smith
Häftad,  Engelska, 2015-07-30
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A lyrical and spellbinding story of love, loss, and war from a standout new voice in fiction. Katy Simpson Smith has already been acclaimed as an heir apparent to to Michael Ondaatje and Marilynne Robinson North Carolina, 1793. When nine-year-old Tab catches yellow fever, her father John steals her onto a boat, hoping the sea air will cure his only child. For comfort, he tells Tab stories about her mother Helen, who died in childbirth. Two decades earlier, Helen is given a slave girl for her tenth birthday. Molls arrival is meant to teach Helen discipline but soon the girls are close confidantes, until the arrival of John, a pirate turned soldier. And as the town is threatened in the dying embers of the Revolution, Helen must decide between a life of security on the family plantation and a sea adventure with the man she loves.
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Pure pleasurethe best novel Ive read all year Anita Shreve A wonderful novel of heartbreaking grief but also of redemptive hope In high but warranted praise it very much evoked Marilynne Robinsons acclaimed GILEAD Chicago Tribune (Editors Pick) Poignant and intensely lyrical NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Smiths soulful language of loss is almost biblical, and the descriptions of her characters sorrows are poetic and moving PUBLISHERS WEEKLY From the start, Ms. Smiths spare, rhythmic prose captivates Her refusal to serve up false redemption is admirable NEW YORK TIMES Smith has a real gift for describing both hope and despair she is absolutely a writer to watch NPR Among the most assured debut novels in recent memory, it heralds the birth of a major new talent VOGUE Astonishingly relatable characters HUFFINGTON POST

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Katy Simpson Smith was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. She attended Mount Holyoke College and received a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She has been working as an adjunct professor at Tulane University and has published a study of early American motherhood, We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 17501835. She lives in New Orleans.

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