ISBN: 9780593081013
Editorial: Vintage
Autor: Lee, Jonathan
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 304
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: An exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, about one man's rise to fame and fortune, and his mysterious murder—“engrossing” (Wall Street Journal), “immersive” (The New Yorker), and “seriously entertaining” (The Sunday Times, London).Andrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing—on Park Avenue in broad daylight, on Friday the thirteenth—shook the city.Born to a struggling farmer, Green was a self-made man without whom there would be no Central Park, no Metropolitan Museum of Art, no Museum of Natural History, no New York Public Library. But Green had a secret, a life locked within him that now, in the hour of his death, may finally break free.A work of tremendous depth and piercing emotion, The Great Mistake is the story of a city transformed, a murder that made a private man infamous, and a portrait of a singular individual who found the world closed off to him—yet enlarged it.ReviewONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Guardian, LitHub • ONE OF CRIMEREADS' BEST HISTORICAL NOVELS OF THE YEAR • A Best Book of Summer: Entertainment Weekly, Oprah Quarterly, Vulture, Town & Country, Refinery29“Moving . . . Subtle . . . Vibrant . . . Has precise emotional contours . . . The book’s accomplishment is less in making us ‘see’ Green, like some kind of historical hologram, than in making us inhabit him . . . Reminiscent of a nostalgic character in a William Maxwell novel.”—John Williams, New York Times“Finely drawn . . . Jonathan Lee’s intriguing novel has all the ingredients of a whodunit, but he’s more interested in the personal mysteries of the man who opened up the city ‘while keeping himself closed.’”—Alida Becker, New York Times Book Review“The Great Mistake is a great New York story...Green lived a life—and Lee does it appropriately epic justice.” —Entertainment Weekly“So polished and vivid...Lee has given his subject a prose memorial with a beating heart and superb mind, something worthy at last of a complicated man whose vision far exceeded his fame.” —Los Angeles Times“An immersive bildungsroman.” —The New Yorker“The best American novel of the year...A book of extraordinary intelligence and style...It’s as if Lee has distilled more than a century of American letters into a single book. There’s Fitzgerald, of course. There’s Hemingway in the muscular lyricism of the prose; Sherwood Anderson and Steinbeck in the beautifully drawn portraits of rural America; there’s the restraint of Henry James in the sinuous sentences.” —The Guardian“Engrossing . . . Genuinely impressive...Lee is an excellent sketcher of character, setter of scene, and weaver of research . . . None of Lee’s sentences is soulless. They brim with life and music and filigree-fine craft.” —The Wall Street Journal“A beautifully rendered fictional portrait of this most complex and contradictory of men . . . Lee intersperses fact and fiction to masterful effect . . . The Great Mistake is both a page-turning murder mystery and a taut psychological study of a genius lost to history.”—David Goodwillie, Interview“Impeccably written . . . Jonathan Lee writes engrossing novels about public tragedies and private dilemmas, fusing vivid character studies with understated humor and aphoristic turns of phrase. [His] latest is further confirmation that he’s among the best writers working today.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune“Seriously entertaining . . . Ingenious . . . I wish there were more novels like it.” —The Sunday Times(London)“Unforgettable...It would be easy to recommend The Great Mistake for its confident, well-researched, and impeccably crafted take on a singular individual who had so much to do with the creation of New York City as we know it. But you should really read this book for Lee’s exquisite prose, his poetic shadings of a life and a time in which so much was possible.” —Chicago Review of Books
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