The Dependents
Autor Katharine Dionen Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 iun 2018
One
ofTIMEmagazine's
best
summer
reads,
a
"wise"
(Entertainment
Weekly)
and
"resplendent"
(O,
The
Oprah
Magazine)
debut
that
follows
a
new
widower
confronting
the
truth
about
his
long
marriage
One
of
the
best
books
of
the
summer:TIME,
Entertainment
Weekly,
O:
The
Oprah
Magazine,
Real
Simple,Brit
+
Co.
"A
fine
debut,
full
of
intelligent
writing
.
.
.
This
book
pleases
on
many
levels."
--Jeffrey
Eugenides
After
the
sudden
death
of
his
wife,
Maida,
Gene
is
haunted
by
the
fear
that
their
marriage
was
not
all
it
appeared
to
be.
Alongside
Ed
and
Gayle
Donnelly,
friends
since
college
days,
he
tries
to
resurrect
happy
memories
of
the
times
the
two
couples
shared,
raising
their
children
in
a
small
New
Hampshire
town
and
vacationing
together
at
a
lake
house
every
summer.
Meanwhile,
his
daughter,
Dary,
challenges
not
only
his
happy
version
of
the
past
but
also
his
view
of
Maida.
As
a
long-standing
rift
between
them
deepens,
Gene
starts
to
understand
how
unknown
his
daughter
is
to
him--and
how
enigmatic
his
wife
was
as
well.
And
a
lingering
suspicion
seizes
his
mind
that
could
upend
everything
he
thought
he
knew.
Katharine Dion's assured debut moves seamlessly between Gene's present-day journey and the long history of a marriage and friendship. Rich and wonderfully alive,The Dependentsis the most moving kind of drama, an intimate glance into the expanse of family life and the way we must all eventually bridge the chasm between what we want to believe and what we know to be true.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316473873
ISBN-10: 0316473871
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 154 x 244 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 0316473871
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 154 x 244 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
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Notă biografică
Katharine
Dion
was
born
in
Oakland,
California.
She
is
a
graduate
of
the
Iowa
Writers'
Workshop,
where
she
was
awarded
the
Iowa
Arts
Fellowship.
She
has
also
been
a
MacDowell
Fellow
and
the
recipient
of
a
grant
from
the
Elizabeth
George
Foundation.
She
lives
in
Berkeley,
California.The
Dependentsis
her
first
novel.
Recenzii
"An
eloquent
debut
about
memory,
love,
grief,
and
friendship
.
.
.The
Dependentsmoves
elegantly
from
past
to
present,
starting
with
four
college
friends
whose
lives
become
inexorably
linked
.
.
.
The
talented
Dion
has
written
a
gorgeously
meditative
debut
about
how
unfully
we
live
our
lives
or
know
ourselves
and
our
loved
ones."—Caroline
Leavitt,San
Francisco
Chronicle
"This is the beach read you'll still be thinking about as the leaves fall...Debut novelist Dion writes like a dream. Or John Cheever crossed with a very insightful feminist."—Kim Hubbard,People
"Dion's wise debut asks compelling questions about memory and grieving...Stunning."—Entertainment Weekly
"Dion's resplendent debut ponders the fickleness of memory and the human propensity for nostalgia and self-doubt."—O Magazine
"Dion's debut is a heartbreaking meditation on the long process that is healing from grief."—Real Simple
"Moving and profound."—Mackenzie Dawson,New York Post
"When this book arrived in the mail, its author, Katharine Dion, was a person unknown to me. Not anymore.The Dependentsis a fine debut, full of intelligent writing and free of the canine desire to please that afflicts so much contemporary writing. And yet this book pleases on many levels. I will look for Ms. Dion's work in the future."—Jeffrey Eugenides, Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot
"This richly textured family drama is a marvel of a novel. With great subtlety and tact, it evokes the love, devotion, and sadness that bind a grieving father to his troubled daughter. Its cumulative power comes from the depth of Dion's entry into her characters and the vividness of her prose that brings them to life.The Dependentsis one of the best debut novels I've read in years, and a very auspicious one.—Adam Haslett, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Imagine Me Gone
"The Dependentsis a big book, one that grapples with important questions through generations--the way we live now, the way we may have chosen to live then--and the consequences. Dion's intelligence and ambition truly shine through sentence after sentence."—Kate Walbert, National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History of Women
"The Dependentsis a brilliant and absorbing novel that's not afraid to ask the big questions: What is the source of happiness? How do we recover from loss? How much do we really know about the people we love? This is a masterly portrait of grief written by an author of enormous sensitivity and insight."—Nathan Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Nix
"Dion builds tension by revealing bits and pieces of the saga gently and cleverly, carefully propelling the action onward even when Gene is considering the past."—Oakland Magazine
"Dion's debut novel is a seamless exploration ofGene's past life, long marriage, deep friendships, and present-day strugglesthrough loss and understanding. Her rich and nuanced characters combine withher exceptional writing to create a powerful and intimate look at the innerworkings of one family.The Dependentsis a deeply satisfyingexamination of the gulf between what we want to believe and the truth, andreaders will be eager for more from Dion."—Booklist (starred review)
"Dion'smelancholy, meditative debut dwells in the head of Gene Ashe, a widower after49 years of marriage.... At this novel's most successful moments, the depictionof Gene's mental state achieves the eloquence and insight of C.S. Lewis' AGrief Observed: 'It amazed him he could still remember so much about theparticular way she had inhabited the world. Such intimacy, to think of thesethings, to know exactly the way she had cared for her own body or moved itthrough space.' Intelligent and profound."—Kirkus
"Death and unavoidable truth shatter the serene surface of a man's golden years in Dion's fine debut...The narrative travels back and forth through Gene's life as he tries to pick apart the performative from the heartfelt acts of love. The result is a beautiful story of communication and commitment."—Publishers Weekly
"In this first novel, set in a small New Hampshire town a few years ago, Gene Ashe is mourning the sudden loss of his beloved wife of many years. Now that Maida is gone, he is alone; his daughter, Dary, is a single mother living on the other side of the country. Gene has always wondered why he and Dary don't get along as well as he would like. Now his grief adds to his concern about his daughter and granddaughter Annie. To complicate matters, Gene becomes involved with his caretaker, a pleasant but emotionally remote older woman. He can't stop thinking about the past, especially his relationship with longtime friends Ed and Gayle Donnelly. Gene broods over former regrets as he makes a winter visit alone to an old haunt, the lake cabin that his family used to share with Ed and Gayle and their children. What if he is remembering the past all wrong? VERDICT Promising young novelist Dion portrays a lonely older man in a sympathetic, believable way in this insightful story about friendship, love, and loss."—Leslie Patterson,Library Journal
"Katharine Dion's singular debut is a polished tapestry rich in character and insight."—Shelf Awareness
"This is the beach read you'll still be thinking about as the leaves fall...Debut novelist Dion writes like a dream. Or John Cheever crossed with a very insightful feminist."—Kim Hubbard,People
"Dion's wise debut asks compelling questions about memory and grieving...Stunning."—Entertainment Weekly
"Dion's resplendent debut ponders the fickleness of memory and the human propensity for nostalgia and self-doubt."—O Magazine
"Dion's debut is a heartbreaking meditation on the long process that is healing from grief."—Real Simple
"Moving and profound."—Mackenzie Dawson,New York Post
"When this book arrived in the mail, its author, Katharine Dion, was a person unknown to me. Not anymore.The Dependentsis a fine debut, full of intelligent writing and free of the canine desire to please that afflicts so much contemporary writing. And yet this book pleases on many levels. I will look for Ms. Dion's work in the future."—Jeffrey Eugenides, Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot
"This richly textured family drama is a marvel of a novel. With great subtlety and tact, it evokes the love, devotion, and sadness that bind a grieving father to his troubled daughter. Its cumulative power comes from the depth of Dion's entry into her characters and the vividness of her prose that brings them to life.The Dependentsis one of the best debut novels I've read in years, and a very auspicious one.—Adam Haslett, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Imagine Me Gone
"The Dependentsis a big book, one that grapples with important questions through generations--the way we live now, the way we may have chosen to live then--and the consequences. Dion's intelligence and ambition truly shine through sentence after sentence."—Kate Walbert, National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History of Women
"The Dependentsis a brilliant and absorbing novel that's not afraid to ask the big questions: What is the source of happiness? How do we recover from loss? How much do we really know about the people we love? This is a masterly portrait of grief written by an author of enormous sensitivity and insight."—Nathan Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Nix
"Dion builds tension by revealing bits and pieces of the saga gently and cleverly, carefully propelling the action onward even when Gene is considering the past."—Oakland Magazine
"Dion's debut novel is a seamless exploration ofGene's past life, long marriage, deep friendships, and present-day strugglesthrough loss and understanding. Her rich and nuanced characters combine withher exceptional writing to create a powerful and intimate look at the innerworkings of one family.The Dependentsis a deeply satisfyingexamination of the gulf between what we want to believe and the truth, andreaders will be eager for more from Dion."—Booklist (starred review)
"Dion'smelancholy, meditative debut dwells in the head of Gene Ashe, a widower after49 years of marriage.... At this novel's most successful moments, the depictionof Gene's mental state achieves the eloquence and insight of C.S. Lewis' AGrief Observed: 'It amazed him he could still remember so much about theparticular way she had inhabited the world. Such intimacy, to think of thesethings, to know exactly the way she had cared for her own body or moved itthrough space.' Intelligent and profound."—Kirkus
"Death and unavoidable truth shatter the serene surface of a man's golden years in Dion's fine debut...The narrative travels back and forth through Gene's life as he tries to pick apart the performative from the heartfelt acts of love. The result is a beautiful story of communication and commitment."—Publishers Weekly
"In this first novel, set in a small New Hampshire town a few years ago, Gene Ashe is mourning the sudden loss of his beloved wife of many years. Now that Maida is gone, he is alone; his daughter, Dary, is a single mother living on the other side of the country. Gene has always wondered why he and Dary don't get along as well as he would like. Now his grief adds to his concern about his daughter and granddaughter Annie. To complicate matters, Gene becomes involved with his caretaker, a pleasant but emotionally remote older woman. He can't stop thinking about the past, especially his relationship with longtime friends Ed and Gayle Donnelly. Gene broods over former regrets as he makes a winter visit alone to an old haunt, the lake cabin that his family used to share with Ed and Gayle and their children. What if he is remembering the past all wrong? VERDICT Promising young novelist Dion portrays a lonely older man in a sympathetic, believable way in this insightful story about friendship, love, and loss."—Leslie Patterson,Library Journal
"Katharine Dion's singular debut is a polished tapestry rich in character and insight."—Shelf Awareness
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"A brilliant and absorbing debut novel" (Nathan Hill, author of The Nix) that follows a new widower confronting the truth about his long marriage.
"A brilliant and absorbing debut novel" (Nathan Hill, author of The Nix) that follows a new widower confronting the truth about his long marriage.