Lake Overturn - Hardcover

McIntyre, Vestal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061671169 ISBN 13: 9780061671166

Verlag: HarperCollins, 2009

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Book by McIntyre Vestal

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"Lake Overturn is a lovingly rendered portrait of small-town America. Vestal McIntyre knows his people intimately - how they speak, their manners and customs; but, most importantly, he knows their troubled hearts, and he plumbs the depths of those hearts with remarkable empathy and wisdom." -- Ron Rash, author of Serena

"This astonishing novel - a great big captivating, multi-character drama set in Eula, Idaho - has McIntyre juggling a half-dozen intersecting plots and people with extraordinary grace." -- Philadelphia Gay News

A Best Book of 2009 -- Washington Post Book World

Reading Vestal McIntyre s deliriously ambrosial novel is like entering reader s heaven. Constantly surprising. . . . I loved it. --Peter Cameron, award-winning author of The City of Your Final Destination

What a great relief [it is] to read Vestal McIntyre s splendid first novel. . . . Lake Overturn is loving and searing and sad and, above all, a pleasure to read. --Adam Haslett, author of You Are Not a Stranger Here

Every character in [Lake Overturn] is so real, complex, and interesting, the scope of the novel at once so wide and so deep, the themes and ideas so thoroughly embodied by the story, I felt as if I were reading a modern-day Middlemarch. --Kate Christensen, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man

[Keeps] us engrossed from the beginning. . . . He illuminates with humor and sympathy the mundane lives of a group of vivid characters. --Library Journal

[A] deliriously colorful and deliciously engrossing tapestry of a small-town s depressing poverty, pointless pettiness, quirky rivalries, domestic infidelities, desperate drug use, onerous class and race divisions and occasional quiet, sentimental triumphs. --Q Syndicate

A Best Book of 2009--Washington Post Book World

"Lake Overturn" is a lovingly rendered portrait of small-town America. Vestal McIntyre knows his people intimately how they speak, their manners and customs; but, most importantly, he knows their troubled hearts, and he plumbs the depths of those hearts with remarkable empathy and wisdom. --Ron Rash, author of Serena

Reseña del editor:

A first novel by the author of the debut collection, You Are Not the One follows a year in the lives of a Cold War-era trailer community in Idaho, where single moms Lina and Connie struggle with their sons' exploits, their economic disadvantages, and the edicts of faith.

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• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061671169
• ISBN 13: 9780061671166
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 443