The Story of Land and Sea (P.S. (Paperback)) - Softcover

Smith, Katy Simpson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062335952 ISBN 13: 9780062335951

Verlag: PERENNIAL, 2015

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Críticas:

"A luminous Revolutionary War novel set to be the debut of the year"--Vogue

"A luminous debut..."--O, the Oprah Magazine

"The arresting prose, vividly original characters, and narrative drive with which Smith tells this story of desperate familial love on a long-ago coast provided this reader with several hours of pure pleasure and a rare glimpse of grace in a fictional world."--Anita Shreve

"A pristine and powerful book...[Smith's] voice is a poet's and her vision is as expansive as the ocean, as the history in its depths. In her gorgeous and heart-rending first novel, she lays bare the hearts of parent and child, slave and master, and, most impressively, her readers."--Bret Anthony Johnston

"Smith's spare, rhythmic prose captivates."--New York Times

"Smith's spare prose and storytelling style is resonant of oral history or folk tales, and the early chapters focusing on John and his daughter Tabitha, and her desire for the sea, call to mind Sena Jeter Naslund's AHAB'S WIFE."--Library Journal

"With lucid prose, historical and cultural accuracy, and a set of complex yet relatable characters, this debut novel from Jackson native Katy Simpson Smith has been one of the best I've read this year...Like water, this story, its characters, and its words are fluid and powerful."--Lemuria Bookstore Blog

"For all her mastery of the willful moral ambiguity that lies in the hearts of her characters, Smith is equally adept at describing small but heartbreaking moments in relationships...It's not only among the most assured debut novels in recent memory, it heralds the birth of a major new talent."--Chapter 16/Nashville

"[A] moving family saga."--Us Weekly

"Haunting...The Story of Land and Sea's finely wrought language blends startling details of the everyday with a dreamy, aphoristic quality. The effect is to root the novel in its historical moment but to reach toward the universal in its exploration of love and grief."--Washington Post

Reseña del editor:

Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolution, this incandescent debut novel follows three generations of family—fathers and daughters, mother and son, master and slave, characters who yearn for redemption amidst a heady brew of war, kidnapping, slavery, and love.

Drawn to the ocean, ten-year-old Tabitha wanders the marshes of her small coastal village and listens to her father’s stories about his pirate voyages and the mother she never knew. Since the loss of his wife Helen, John has remained land-bound for their daughter, but when Tab contracts yellow fever, he turns to the sea once more. Desperate to save his daughter, he takes her aboard a sloop bound for Bermuda, hoping the salt air will heal her.

Years before, Helen herself was raised by a widowed father. Asa, the devout owner of a small plantation, gives his daughter a young slave named Moll for her tenth birthday. Left largely on their own, Helen and Moll develop a close but uneasy companionship. Helen gradually takes over the running of the plantation as the girls grow up, but when she meets John, the pirate turned Continental soldier, she flouts convention and her father’s wishes by falling in love. Moll, meanwhile, is forced into marriage with a stranger. Her only solace is her son, Davy, whom she will protect with a passion that defies the bounds of slavery.

In this elegant, evocative, and haunting debut, Katy Simpson Smith captures the singular love between parent and child, the devastation of love lost, and the lonely paths we travel in the name of renewal.

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• Verlag: PERENNIAL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0062335952
• ISBN 13: 9780062335951
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272