The End of the Point - Hardcover

Graver, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062184849 ISBN 13: 9780062184849

Verlag: HARPERCOLLINS, 2013

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Book by Graver Elizabeth

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"Eloquent ....Graver's engaging, expansive storytelling allows us to take up residence inside the minds of a host of different characters, watching as they create their own pictures of the world around them, as they invest certain places and people with mythic significance."--New York Times Book Review

"With her fourth and most emotionally textured novel, Graver proves herself a master chronicler of the ever-spiraling human comedy. The End of the Point is a work of uncommon gracefulness, as much in its boundless empathy as in the luminosity of its prose."--Boston Globe

"With a style and voice reminiscent of William Trevor and Graham Swift, Graver's powerfully evocative portrait of a family strained by events both large and small celebrates the indelible influence certain places can exert over the people who love them."--Booklist (starred review)

"In this globalized age, with everyone talking about migration, here comes Elizabeth Graver to remind us of just what place can mean. The attachment in this gorgeously written, enormously moving book transcends time and personality. It is deep, extraordinarily ordinary, and finally provocative."--Gish Jen, author of World and Town

"One place and one family are inextricably linked in this marvelous novel. Elizabeth Graver writes with a painter's attentiveness to detail, and creates from these particulars a vivid rendering of American life from 1942 to the century's end."--Ron Rash, author of The Cove

"An engrossing and intimate portrait of a New England family and the patch of land that gives them solace, generation after generation, when other people cannot. Graver's writing is simply stunning on every page, and she has gone deep under the skin of these characters to create this magnificent novel."--Lily King, author of Father of the Rain

"Is it possible for a novel to be at once cunning and magnificent, epic and compressed, topical and timeless? Yes, yes, yes, in the case of Elizabeth Graver's gorgeous The End of the Point."--Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy

"Elizabeth Graver is an uncommonly fine writer: dancingly in command of language, yet always, foremost, faithful to something quieter and more essential - call it the complexities of truth. The ambitious scope of her new novel is beautifully matched by her largeness of spirit. I would read anything this author writes."--Leah Hager Cohen, author of The Grief of Others

"An excellent choice for book clubs."--Library Journal

"Graver takes an eloquent, balanced look at the power of place and time and the evolution of a family of flawed but relatable characters, building a subtle symphony that unfolds over decades....Graver is a master at showing how beautifully ordinary people survive the twists and turns of everyday life."--The Millions

Reseña del editor:

Returning to Ashuant Point to escape from the chaos of rapidly changing times, Helen Porter and her son Charlie soon discover that the Point has not remained unscathed from events unfolding beyond its borders. 25,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: HARPERCOLLINS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0062184849
• ISBN 13: 9780062184849
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352