Linden Hills: Contemporary American Fiction
Autor Gloria Nayloren Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 1986 – vârsta de la 18 ani
A world away from Brewster Place, yet intimately connected to it, lies Linden Hills. With its showcase homes, elegant lawns, and other trappings of Wealth, Linden Hills is not unlike other affluent black communities. But residence in this community is indisputable evidence of "making it." Although no one knows what the precise qualifications are, everyone knows that only certain people get to live there - and that they want to be among them. In a resonant novel that takes as it's model Dante's Inferno, Gloria Naylor reveals the truth about the American dream - that the price of success may very well be on a journey down to the lowest circle of hell.
"With Linden Hills, Naylor has constructed a place for herself among the leading contemporary writers of fiction." -Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0140088296
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 130 x 196 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Seria Contemporary American Fiction
Notă biografică
Tayari Jones(foreword) is theNew York Timesbestselling author ofAn American Marriage, which was an Oprah's Book Club Selection and a favorite of Barack Obama, as well asSilver Sparrow,The Untelling, andLeaving Atlanta. She is a professor-at-large at Cornell University and a professor of creative writing at Emory University.
Descriere
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IRENOSEN OKOJIE
By the bestselling author of The Women of Brewster Place
With its showcase homes and manicured lawns, an address in the wealthy Black American neighbourhood of Linden Hills is a symbol that you've made it. The ultimate achievement: a home on prestigious Tupelo Drive. Making your way downhill to Tupelo is irrefutable proof of your worth. But the farther down the hill you go, the emptier you become and the price of success may well be a journey down to the lowest circle of hell.
As two young friends - poets from the wrong side of town - look to earn extra money for Christmas doing odd jobs in Linden Hills, their warmth, humour and disbelief exposes the hypocrisy of life on the 'right' side of the tracks. Exploring a microcosm of race and social class, Gloria Naylor reveals the true cost of success for the lost souls of Linden Hills.
'Gloria Naylor is gifted with timeless wisdom, bottomless empathy, and limitless language. Her novels will shine a light for readers and writers for generations to come' - Tayari Jones, author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE
'Naylor's skill in weaving together culture, heartbreak, joy, magic, terror, laughter, pain, and love-which is to say, life-is extraordinary. There is something both mundane and cosmic about her writing that captures the human condition in a way that perhaps no other writer did or will' - Robert Jones, Jr., author of THE PROPHETS
Naylor has produced an ambitious novel that aspires to be nothing less than a contemporary reading of Dante's 'Inferno' ...One is quickly beguiled ... so gracefully does Naylor fuse together the epic and the naturalistic, the magical and the real - Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
Recenzii
Naylor's humour, both sad and satiric, is distinctive; Willie and Lester are vital, earthy, boisterously irreverent guides . . . this is a haunting homiletic-with a cohesive strength of statement concerning Black aspiration within a tarnished American Dream
Gloria Naylor is gifted with timeless wisdom, bottomless empathy, and limitless language. Her novels will shine a light for readers and writers for generations to come
Irrefutably, Gloria Naylor was one of the greatest novelists who ever lived. Every single one of her works was masterful, crafted with the kind of rare artistic brilliance that places her in extremely limited company. She is likely best known for her National Book Award-winning debut work, The Women of Brewster Place, but that is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Whether the divine Bailey's Cafe, the haunting Linden Hills, or the exquisite Mama Day (one of my favorite novels of all-time), Naylor's skill in weaving together culture, heartbreak, joy, magic, terror, laughter, pain, and love-which is to say, life-is extraordinary. There is something both mundane and cosmic about her writing that captures the human condition in a way that perhaps no other writer did or will. Her work is, for me, a shout, a praisesong, a hosanna, a hallelujah, a Black fist in the air; àse! She holds a hallowed place in the canon, and also in hearts, minds, bodies, and spirits. She was one of the blessed ones
INTRODUCED BY IRENOSEN OKOJIE
With its showcase homes and manicured lawns, an address in the wealthy Black American neighbourhood of Linden Hills is a symbol that you've made it. The ultimate achievement: a home on prestigious Tupelo Drive, at the base of the hills. But the further down you go, the more this paradise begins to look like a circle of hell . . .
As two young friends - poets from the wrong side of town - journey through the neighbourhood picking up odd jobs and extra cash, their warmth, humour and disbelief expose the hypocrisy of the lost souls of Linden Hills. Lyrical, wise and dazzlingly imaginative, Naylor's novel exposes the dark heart of the American dream.
'An ambitious novel that aspires to be nothing less than a contemporary reading of Dante's Inferno . . . Naylor fuse[s] together the epic and the naturalistic, the magical and the real' New York Times
Gloria Naylor is gifted with timeless wisdom, bottomless empathy, and limitless language' TAYARI JONES
'Naylor's skill in weaving together culture, heartbreak, joy, magic, terror, laughter, pain, and love - which is to say, life - is extraordinary' Robert Jones, Jr.