ISBN: 9781501126079
Editorial: Scribner
Autor: Ward, Jesmyn
Año de edición: 2018
N° Paginas: 320
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: Críticas "Sing, Unburied, Sing is many things: a road novel, a slender epic of three generations and the ghosts that haunt them, and a portrait of what ordinary folk in dire circumstances cleave to as well as what they -- and perhaps we all -- are trying to outrun." --New York Times Book Review "Sing, Unburied Sing is Ward's third novel and her most ambitious yet. Her lyrical prose takes on, alternately, the tones of a road novel and a ghost story ... Sing, which is longlisted for a 2017 National Book Award, establishes Ward as one of the most poetic writers in the conversation about America's unfinished business in the black South." --The Atlantic "While the magical element is new in Ward's fiction, her allusiveness, anchored in her interest in the politics of race, has been pointing in this direction all along. It takes a touch of the spiritual to speak across chasms of age, class, and color ... The signal characteristic of Ward's prose is its lyricism. "I'm a failed poet," she has said. The length and music of Ward's sentences owe much to her love of catalogues, extended similes, imagistic fragments, and emphasis by way of repetition ... The effect, intensified by use of the present tense, can be hypnotic. Some chapters sound like fairy tales. This, and her ease with vernacular language, puts Ward in fellowship with such forebears as Zora Neale Hurston and William Faulkner." --The New Yorker"[As] in everything she writes, Ward's gorgeous evocation of the burden of history reminds me of Mississippi's most famous writer, in a novel with more than a trace of As I Lay Dying ... Always clear-eyed, Ward knows history is a nightmare. But she insists all the same that we might yet awake and sing." --Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal "[Sing, Unburied, Sing has] a fresh, visceral resonance ... [its] story of grief, racism and poverty isn't only Mississippi's story but our country's. So, too, let us hope, is its story of resilience and grace. --St. Louis Post-Dispatch "This book is so good that after you read it, you will want to read it again." --Sun Herald"[A] tour de force ... Ward is an attentive and precise writer who dazzles with natural and supernatural observations and lyrical details ... she continues telling stories we need to hear with rare clarity and power." --O, the Oprah Magazine "Electric ... a harrowing panorama of the rural South." --L.A. Review of Books "Gorgeous ... Always clear-eyed, Ward knows history is a nightmare. But she insists all the same that we might yet awaken and sing." --Chicago Tribune"Ghosts, literal and literary, haunt nearly every page of Sing, Unburied, Sing -- a novel whose boundaries between the living and the dead shift constantly, like smoke or sand. Set on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi (a place rich in oil rigs and atmosphere, if almost nothing else), the book's Southern gothic aura recalls the dense, head-spinning prose of William Faulkner or Flannery O'Connor. But the voice is entirely Ward's own, a voluptuous magical realism that takes root in the darkest corners of human behavior ... Ward, whose Salvage the Bones won a National Book Award, has emerged as one of the most searing and singularly gifted writers working today. Grade: A." --Entertainment Weekly "However eternal its concerns, Sing, Unburied, Sing, Ward's new book, is perfectly poised for the moment. It combines aspects of the American road novel and the ghost story with a timely treatment of the long aftershocks of a hurricane and the opioid epidemic devouring rural America." --The New York Times "Staggering ... even more expansive and layered [than Salvage the Bones]. A furious brew with hints of Toni Morrison and Homer's "The Odyssey," Ward's novel hits full stride when Leonie takes her children and a friend and hits the road to pick up her children's father, Michael, from prison. On a real and metaphorical road of secrets and sorrows, the story shifts narrators -- from Jojo to Leonie to Richie, a doomed boy from his grandfathe
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Ward, Jesmyn
- Editorial: Scribner
- N° Paginas: 320
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
