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Gautreaux Tim
Heftet / 2004 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780340828908
Publisert
2004-07-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Sceptre
Vekt
260 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

Forfatter
Gautreaux Tim

Om bidragsyterne

Born and raised in Louisiana, Tim Gautreaux lives there still with his family. His stories have been published in Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Zoetrope, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and Best American Short Stories, and collected in two volumes. Acclaimed as 'one of the best writers to have emerged in the 1990s' by Kirkus Reviews, his first novel, THE NEXT STEP IN THE DANCE, won the 1999 SEBA Book Award, and was followed in 2003 by the highly acclaimed THE CLEARING. In 2005, he was awarded the John Dos Passos Prize. His latest novel, THE MISSING, was published in 2009.

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Gautreaux Tim
Heftet / 2004 / Engelsk
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Heftet / 2004 / Engelsk
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Byron Aldridge, heir to a timber empire, returns from the First World War a changed man and finds refuge as a company policeman in a backwoods Louisiana sawmill. Soon his younger brother Randolph tracks him down, assuming charge of the mill in the hope of rescuing his former idol. But as the brothers try to understand each other and their wives contend with their own hopes and fears, it is Randolph who starts a feud with the Sicilians who control the whisky and girls, and the future grows fearsome for them all.
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The novel that launched Tim Gautreaux internationally as one of the best contemporary American novelists - a gripping tale of courage, violence and moral choices set in 1920s Louisiana.
So firmly located and vividly realised that you can almost smell the Louisiana swampwater ... a gripping, action-packed tale, but also a notably intelligent one
So firmly located and vividly realised that you can almost smell the Louisiana swampwater ... a gripping, action-packed tale, but also a notably intelligent one - Jem Poster, GuardianAstonishingly powerful ... brilliantly written and the characters in their mire are superbly realised - Toby Clements, Daily TelegraphAn extraordinary novel, one of the best I've read in years - Annie Proulx, Guardian Summer BooksI cannot recommend it highly enough. - Peter Straus, Literary ReviewGautreaux captures the fetid atmosphere of a frontier society poised to join the modern world with great skill, each sentence polished to perfection - Independent on SundayNear-perfect ... untouchably good - Alan Warner, Daily Telegraph Summer Books
Les mer
The novel that launched Tim Gautreaux internationally as one of the best contemporary American novelists - a gripping tale of courage, violence and moral choices set in 1920s Louisiana.

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Byron Aldridge, heir to a timber empire, returns from the First World War a changed man and finds refuge as a company policeman in a backwoods Louisiana sawmill. Soon his younger brother Randolph tracks him down, assuming charge of the mill in the hope of rescuing his former idol. But as the brothers try to understand each other and their wives contend with their own hopes and fears, it is Randolph who starts a feud with the Sicilians who control the whisky and girls, and the future grows fearsome for them all.
Les mer
The novel that launched Tim Gautreaux internationally as one of the best contemporary American novelists - a gripping tale of courage, violence and moral choices set in 1920s Louisiana.
So firmly located and vividly realised that you can almost smell the Louisiana swampwater ... a gripping, action-packed tale, but also a notably intelligent one
So firmly located and vividly realised that you can almost smell the Louisiana swampwater ... a gripping, action-packed tale, but also a notably intelligent one - Jem Poster, GuardianAstonishingly powerful ... brilliantly written and the characters in their mire are superbly realised - Toby Clements, Daily TelegraphAn extraordinary novel, one of the best I've read in years - Annie Proulx, Guardian Summer BooksI cannot recommend it highly enough. - Peter Straus, Literary ReviewGautreaux captures the fetid atmosphere of a frontier society poised to join the modern world with great skill, each sentence polished to perfection - Independent on SundayNear-perfect ... untouchably good - Alan Warner, Daily Telegraph Summer Books
Les mer
The novel that launched Tim Gautreaux internationally as one of the best contemporary American novelists - a gripping tale of courage, violence and moral choices set in 1920s Louisiana.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780340828908
Publisert
2004-07-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Sceptre
Vekt
260 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

Forfatter
Gautreaux Tim

Om bidragsyterne

Born and raised in Louisiana, Tim Gautreaux lives there still with his family. His stories have been published in Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Zoetrope, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and Best American Short Stories, and collected in two volumes. Acclaimed as 'one of the best writers to have emerged in the 1990s' by Kirkus Reviews, his first novel, THE NEXT STEP IN THE DANCE, won the 1999 SEBA Book Award, and was followed in 2003 by the highly acclaimed THE CLEARING. In 2005, he was awarded the John Dos Passos Prize. His latest novel, THE MISSING, was published in 2009.

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