Name: Bowlaway par Elizabeth McCracken
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Bowlaway Résumé

Bowlaway Elizabeth McCracken

'A big, glorious novel in every sense, this sprawling family saga...is a funny and big-hearted epic from a seriously gifted wordsmith'
Marie Claire

Read the sweeping and enchanting new novel from the author of The Giant's House

Bertha is an enigma to everyone in Salford, Massachusetts - ever since she was discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery with nothing but a bowling ball, a candlepin and fifteen pounds of gold on her person. She has no past to speak of, and her mysterious origin scandalises the townspeople, as does her choice to marry and start a family with Leviticus Sprague, the doctor who revived her.

But Bertha is plucky and entrepreneurial, and the bowling alley she opens quickly becomes Salford's most defining landmark. As she changes the town forever, her singular spirit resonating through every board and brick and bone, an epic family saga unfolds, set against the backdrop of twentieth-century America.

Bowlaway Avis

McCracken is a firecracker stylist and every sentence, every image, is crafted for physical impact... It is exuberant, a bit bonkers and raw and unflinching. It will find a great many fans - and no doubt some awards, too. -- Lucy Atkins * Sunday Times *
A big, glorious novel in every sense, this sprawling family saga... is a funny and big-hearted epic from a seriously gifted wordsmith. -- Samantha Irby * Marie Claire *
McCracken's rambunctious saga [Bowlaway]... is a funhouse of a novel. Even the most incidental of characters are granted glorious vignettes... in [an] unpredictable and startling world. -- Wendy Erskine * Spectator *
[McCracken has] considerable gifts as a novelist [and] instinctive access to the most intricate threads of human thought and feeling... This novel's cast grows epic, but McCracken is always most impressive when she works small, when she is describing movie kisses or corsets or simply loneliness and longing. * New York Times *
Death and life, frosted with macabre comedy: it's why we've enjoyed Elizabeth McCracken since her debut novel, The Giant's House... nothing is ordinary in this story... There's a wickedness to McCracken's technique, the way she lures us in with her witty voice and oddball characters but then kicks the wind out of us... endlessly surprising. -- Ron Charles * Washington Post *

À propos de Elizabeth McCracken

Elizabeth McCracken is the author of five books, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry, The Giant's House (a National Book Award finalist), Niagara Falls All Over Again, the memoir An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imag ination, and Thunderstruck & Other Stories (winner of the 2014 Story Prize, long-listed for the National Book Award). She has received grants and fellow ships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and she was chosen as one of Granta's 20 Best American Writers Under 40. She has served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently holds the James Michener Chair for Fic tion at the University of Texas at Austin.

Informations supplémentaires

Sku

GOR010625082

ISBN 13

9780099526940

ISBN 10

0099526948

Titre

Bowlaway Elizabeth McCracken

Auteur

Elizabeth McCracken

État

Occasion - Très bon état

Relié

Broché

Éditeur

Vintage Publishing

Année de publication

20200312

Nombre de pages

384

Prix

N/A

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