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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK -NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle NPR Men s Journal The Denver Post Slate Time Out New York-From the author of the critically beloved Pym ( Imagine Kurt Vonnegut having a beer with Ralph Ellison and Jules Verne. Vanity Fair) comes a ruthlessly comic and moving tale of a man discovering a lost daughter, confronting an elusive ghost, and stumbling onto the possibility of utopia. In the ghetto there is a mansion, and it is my father s house. Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: His marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comics shop in Cardiff has failed; and his Irish American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart of black Philadelphia. On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures outside in the grass. When he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear. The next day he encounters ghosts of a different kind: In the face of a teenage girl he meets at a comics convention he sees the mingled features of his white father and his black mother, both now dead. The girl, Tal, is his daughter, and she s been raised to think she s white. Spinning from these revelations, Warren sets off to remake his life with a reluctant daughter he s never known, in a haunted house with a history he knows too well. In their search for a new life, he and Tal struggle with ghosts, fall in with a utopian mixed-race cult, and ignite a riot on Loving Day, the unsung holiday for interracial lovers. A frequently hilarious, surprisingly moving story about blacks and whites, fathers and daughters, the living and the dead, Loving Day celebrates the wonders of opposites bound in love. Praise for Loving Day Incisive . . . razor-sharp . . .that rare melange: cerebral comedy with pathos. The vitality of our narrator deserves much of the credit for that. He has the neurotic bawdiness of Philip Roth s Alexander Portnoy; the keen, caustic eye of Bob Jones in Chester Himes s If He Hollers Let Him Go; the existential insight of Ellison s Invisible Man. The New York Times Book Review Exceptional . . . To say that Loving Day is a book about race is like saying Moby-Dick is a book about whales. . . . Mat Johnson s] unrelenting examination of blackness, whiteness and everything in between is handled with ruthless candor and riotous humor. . . . Even when the novel s family strife and racial politics are at peak intensity, Johnson s comic timing is impeccable. Los Angeles Times Loving Day is about being blackish in America, a subject about which Johnson has emerged as satirist, historian, spy, social media trickster (follow him on Twitter) and demon-fingered blues guitarist. . . . Johnson, at his best, is a powerful comic observer and] a gifted writer, always worth reading on the topics of race and privilege. Dwight Garner, The New York Times Hilarious and touching new novel about family, identity and what it means to truly love other people . . . The disasters make us who we are, and the results can sometimes be amazing as amazing as this beautiful, triumphant miracle of a book. NPR Giddy, biting . . . ferocious . . . Grand metaphors, unsparing social commentary, sharp characters, and sharper humor help propel the book. . . . A welcome effort from a major talent. The Boston Globe.…
N° de ref. del artículo 00087625020
- Título
- Loving Day
- Autor
- Mat Johnson
- Editorial
- Random House USA Inc
- Año de publicación
- 2015
- Estado
- Good
- Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 0812993454
- ISBN 13
- 9780812993455
In the ghetto there is a mansion, and it is my fathers house.
Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: His marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comics shop in Cardiff has failed; and his Irish American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart of black Philadelphia. On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures outside in the grass. When he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear. The next day he encounters ghosts of a different kind: In the face of a teenage girl he meets at a comics convention he sees the mingled features of his white father and his black mother, both now dead. The girl, Tal, is his daughter, and shes been raised to think shes white.
Spinning from these revelations, Warren sets off to remake his life with a reluctant daughter hes never known, in a haunted house with a history he knows too well. In their search for a new life, he and Tal struggle with ghosts, fall in with a utopian mixed-race cult, and ignite a riot on Loving Day, the unsung holiday for interracial lovers.
A frequently hilarious, surprisingly moving story about blacks and whites, fathers and daughters, the living and the dead,Loving Day celebrates the wonders of opposites bound in love.
Praise for Loving Day
Incisive . . . razor-sharp . . . Loving Day is that rare mélange: cerebral comedy with pathos. The vitality of our narrator deserves much of the credit for that. He has the neurotic bawdiness of Philip Roths Alexander Portnoy; the keen, caustic eye of Bob Jones in Chester Himess If He Hollers Let Him Go; the existential insight of Ellisons Invisible Man.The New York Times Book Review
Exceptional . . . To say that Loving Day is a book about race is like sayingMoby-Dick is a book about whales. . . . [Mat Johnsons] unrelenting examination of blackness, whiteness and everything in between is handled with ruthless candor and riotous humor. . . . Even when the novels family strife and racial politics are at peak intensity, Johnsons comic timing is impeccable.Los Angeles Times
Loving Day is about being blackish in America, a subject about which Johnson has emerged as satirist, historian, spy, social media trickster (follow him on Twitter) and demon-fingered blues guitarist. . . . Johnson, at his best, is a powerful comic observer [and] a gifted writer, always worth reading on the topics of race and privilege.Dwight Garner,The New York Times
Hilarious and touching new novel about family, identity and what it means to truly love other people . . . The disasters make us who we are, and the results can sometimes be amazingas amazing as this beautiful, triumphant miracle of a book.NPR
Giddy, biting . . . ferocious . . . Grand metaphors, unsparing social commentary, sharp characters, and sharper humor help propel the book. . . .Loving Day is a welcome effort from a major talent.The Boston Globe
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Founded in 2002, World of Books is a leading online destination for buying and selling both preloved and new books, committed to making sustainable reading accessible to all. With a mission to help people read more and waste less, World of Books offers a huge range of affordable, high-quality books — giving both new and preloved titles a second life. The company also operates World of Books – Sell Your Books, an easy-to-use platform that allows customers to trade in unwanted books for cash, helping to keep books in circulation while promoting sustainability. As a Certified B Corp, World of Books is driven by a vision to become the world’s largest and most sustainable dedicated online bookstore. The company measures its success through the positive environmental impact it creates, the value it provides to customers, and its ability to operate profitably while supporting its sustainable mission …
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