ISBN: 9781982144418
Editorial: Scribner
Autor: Davidson, Ash
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 464
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: NATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times“A glorious book—an assured novel that’s gorgeously told.” —The New York Times Book Review“An incredibly moving epic about an unforgettable family.” —CBS Sunday Morning“[An] absorbing novel…I felt both grateful to have known these people and bereft at the prospect of leaving them behind.” —The Washington PostA stunning novel about love, work, and marriage that asks how far one family and one community will go to protect their future.Colleen and Rich Gundersen are raising their young son, Chub, on the rugged California coast. It’s 1977, and life in this Pacific Northwest logging town isn’t what it used to be. For generations, the community has lived and breathed timber; now that way of life is threatened.Colleen is an amateur midwife. Rich is a tree-topper. It’s a dangerous job that requires him to scale trees hundreds of feet tall—a job that both his father and grandfather died doing. Colleen and Rich want a better life for their son—and they take steps to assure their future. Rich secretly spends their savings on a swath of ancient redwoods. But when Colleen, grieving the loss of a recent pregnancy and desperate to have a second child, challenges the logging company’s use of the herbicides she believes are responsible for the many miscarriages in the community, Colleen and Rich find themselves on opposite sides of a budding conflict. As tensions in the town rise, they threaten the very thing the Gundersens are trying to protect: their family.Told in prose as clear as a spring-fed creek, Damnation Spring is an intimate, compassionate portrait of a family whose bonds are tested and a community clinging to a vanishing way of life. An extraordinary story of the transcendent, enduring power of love—between husband and wife, mother and child, and longtime neighbors. An essential novel for our times.Review“Probably the best novel I’ll read this year. It’s about work and love and characters who ring true.”—Stephen King"A glorious book—an assured novel that’s gorgeously told... Redwoods have been plundered by humans, damaged in fires and taken down in floods, but they’re also incredibly resilient. And as characters in Davidson’s graceful rendering remind us, humans are equally resilient. After great loss, they, too, can keep growing."—The New York Times Book Review"With great empathy and care, Davidson demonstrates how competing values play out against a backdrop of climate change in America."—The New Yorker“[An] ambitious debut [that] gains momentum as Davidson pulls together its foundational concepts— family, work, honor, and loyalty. Damnation Spring is full of surprises.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"[This] story runs as clear as the mountain streams that draw salmon back to spawn... Damnation Spring joins Richard Powers’s Overstory and Annie Proulx’s Barkskins in a growing collection of epic novels about our interactions with trees."—The Washington Post“An incredibly moving epic about an unforgettable family.”—CBS Sunday Morning“[With] the page-turning urgency of a thriller…the novel tells many characters’ stories—affirming, in the end, the strength of community. Davidson’s prose is absolutely beautiful, every detail immersing us in this landscape fully and seamlessly as she reveals characters’ tensions, longings, disappointments, and their attachment to the land. Damnation Spring is a must-read for environmentalists above all.”—EcoLit Books“In her exceptional debut novel, Ash Davidson expresses the heart and soul of Northern California's redwood forest community.”—BookPage"[A] powerful debut novel... [A] showdown as inevitable as a mudslide [propels] the community down a path as steep and treacherous as any logging road. It’s a path Davidson portrays in exquisite detail... In Damnation Spring, giant trees are brought low by human machination
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