ISBN: 9781616201425
Editorial: Algonquin
Autor: Jones, Tayari
Año de edición: 2012
N° Paginas: 368
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: Críticas "A tense, layered and evocative tale . . . Jones explores the rivalry and connection of siblings, the meaning of beauty, the perils of young womanhood, the complexities of romantic relationships and the contemporary African-American experience." --Minneapolis Star Tribune "This is a complicated, heartbreaking and very rich story about how secret sisters find each other but lose as much as they gain in the process." --Michele Norris of NPR's All Things Considered "It's an amazing, amazing read." --Jennifer Weiner, NBC's Today "In Silver Sparrow--an amazing novel about a man with two families, one hidden and one public--Jones does something breathtaking and difficult: She renders a unique family dynamic with such precision and sensitivity that it becomes universal. It is amazing to watch, time and time again in this book, how Jones reveals the ways in which family both creates and destroys our identity." --Kevin Wilson in a Salon feature on writers' favorite books of 2011 "A love story . . . Full of perverse wisdom and proud joy . . . Jones's skill for wry understatement never wavers." --O: The Oprah Magazine "Charting a vast emotional unknown is Tayari Jones's compelling third novel, Silver Sparrow, in which a teenage girl's coming of age in 1980s Atlanta is shadowed by her dawning understanding of a corrosive secret -- her father's second family." --Vogue "Silver Sparrow will break your heart before you even know it. Tayari Jones has written a novel filled with characters I'll never forget. This is a book I'll read more than once." --Judy Blume "The most immersive novel I read in 2011 . . . It's one of those 'just one more chapter' kinds of books that require much last-minute changing of plans, because real life feels far less amusing, appalling, shocking, and loving than the world of its characters." --Slate "An exciting read all the way through." --Chicago Tribune "It's really powerful." --Diane Rehm, The Diane Rehm Show "Tayari Jones has taken Atlanta for her literary terroir, and like many of our finest novelists, she gives readers a sense of place in a deeply observed way. But more than that, Jones has created in her main characters tour guides of that region: honest, hurt, observant and compelling young women whose voices cannot be ignored . . . Impossible to put down until you find out how these sisters will discover their own versions of family." --Los Angeles Times "That Jones offers no pat answers is the secret sauce spicing Silver Sparrow. The prose goes down so compulsively that it might be easy to miss the heart of the story. She shines a light on a particular disenfranchised group, the children who grow up in second families." --The Denver Post "Populating this absorbing novel is a vivid cast of characters, each with his own story . . . Jones writes dialogue that is realistic and sparkling, with an intuitive sense of how much to reveal and when." --The Washington Post "Award winner Tayari Jones weaves a tale of Black bigamy and two families in the fascinating fiction of Silver Sparrow." --Ebony "Sharp as a blade, gleaming with 'sense' and humor. Her themes of legitimacy and secrets play out with symphonic, seemingly effortless resonance, and her indelible characters--one daughter a secret, discovered by the other--redefine love, loyalty, and betrayal in a New South only generations removed from slavery's fracture. Jones is a master, and Silver Sparrow is a revelation, alive with meaning, heartbreak, and hope." --Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Lark and Termite "Tayari Jones's immensely pleasurable new novel pulls off a minor miracle . . . Subtly exploring the power of labels, Jones crafts an affecting tale about things, big and small, that we forfeit to forge a family. There are no winners in this empathetic and provocative story, only survivors." --More "If your mom is a fan of emotionally charged morality tales (and whose mom isn't?), she's going to devour Tayari Jones's third novel, Silver Sparro
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Jones, Tayari
- Editorial: Algonquin
- N° Paginas: 368
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
