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The Guest Book

Autor Sarah Blake
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 mai 2019
Instant New York Times Bestseller
Longlisted for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence
2020 New England Society Book Award Winner for Fiction

"The Guest Book is monumental in a way that few novels dare attempt." -The Washington Post

The thought-provoking new novel by New York Times bestselling author Sarah Blake

An exquisitely written, poignant family saga that illuminates the great divide, the gulf that separates the rich and poor, black and white, Protestant and Jew. Spanning three generations, The Guest Book deftly examines the life and legacy of one unforgettable family as they navigate the evolving social and political landscape from Crockett's Island, their family retreat off the coast of Maine. Blake masterfully lays bare the memories and mistakes each generation makes while coming to terms with what it means to inherit the past.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781250110251
ISBN-10: 1250110254
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 167 x 241 x 45 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Flatiron Books

Notă biografică

Sarah Blake lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, the poet Josh Weiner, and their two sons.

Recenzii

Thought-provoking and propulsive...Welcome to old money, new heartbreak and big secrets
I was totally swept away by this beautiful, engrossing, ultimately heartbreaking family saga
Sarah Blake'spowerful, beautifully written storyportrays a couple's secret choices that come to haunt succeeding generations.The Guest Bookis richly atmospheric and morally compelling in a way that stirs the mind long after the last page.
I lovedThe Guest Book.Sarah Blake has managed the extraordinary feat of writing both an intimate family saga and an ambitious excavation of the subterranean currents of race, class, and power that have shaped America. This is a vivid, transporting novel, written by a master conjuror of time and place.
The Guest Bookis not only an exploration of the past, but a prophecy of the future. It illuminates a lost world with a brilliance that is neither nostalgic nor sentimental as it leads its characters, as well as the reader, to new and disturbing discoveries about prejudice and privilege. Sarah Blake's understanding of private life at a certain time in America and within a certain class gives us an incisive history of manners and morals, with the understanding that the survival of the spirit, no matter the time, depends upon endurance, tolerance, and solitary grief.
Sarah Blake is such a beautiful writer she can make any world shimmer, but The Guest Book is particularly fascinating.An intergenerational exploration of memory, identity, love, and family loyalty, of what it costs to inherit a name, a place, and a difficult alignment with history.Powerful and provocative storytelling.
Epic and sweeping, without ever leaving behind the personal and profound,The Guest Bookis a reminder of what novels do better than anything else.Without losing their specificity, three generations of Milton women reveal something about every family, the secrets and unspoken truths that color everything that happens to us.This is a book you will be dying to talk to someone about
Beautifully crafted....The Milton family history, rife with secrets and moral failings, including a deep-seated bigotry, is a timely tale of America itself.An enveloping and moving page-turner
The story of the Miltons engages not just with history and politics, but with the poetry of the physical world. This novel sets out to be more than a juicy family saga?it aims to depict the moral evolution of a part of American society. Its convincing characters and muscular narrative succeed on both counts
This powerful family saga...is potent and mesmerizing