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The Road home

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Book Express (NZ)
(Wellington, Nueva Zelanda)

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Descripción Paperback. Condición: Good. 456 pages. Description 'Jim Harrison is a writer with immort ality in him.' The Sunday Times 'Set in the heart of America, hi s stories move with random power and reach, in the manner of Melv ille and Faulkner.' The Boston Globe 'Harrison is among the fore most writers of the literary generation that has succeeded Styron , Mailer, Jones and Updike.' Philip Caputo 'Harrison's storytell ing instincts are nearly flawless.' The New York Times Book Revie w 'Harrison stands high among the writers of his generation.' Th e New Yorker Jim Harrison is one of America's most acclaimed wri ters and in The Road Home he delivers a true American epic. The n ovel encompasses the story of Dalva's grandfather John Northbridg e, the austere, hard-living half-Sioux patriarch;Naomi, the widow of his favourite son and namesake; Paul, the first Nelse, the so n taken from Dalva at birth, who now has returned to find her. It is a family history drenched in suffering and joy, imbued with f ierce independence and love, rooted in the Nebraska soil, and int ertwined with the destiny of whites and Native Americans. Epic in scope, stretching from the close of the nineteenth century to th e present day, The Road Home is a stunning and trenchant novel, w ritten with humour and humanity. Nº de ref. del artículo: 839l

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