The Street Sweeper

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mar 2013

On the crowded streets of New York City there are even more stories than there are people passing each other every day, and only some of these stories survive to become history. Lamont Williams, recently released from prison and working as a hospital janitor, strikes up an unlikely friendship with a patient, an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor who starts to tell him of his extraordinary past. Dealing with memory, racism and the human capacity for guilt, resilience, heroism, and unexpected kindness, the many paths of THE STREET SWEEPER lead to one greater story.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780571236855
ISBN-10: 0571236855
Pagini: 576
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: FABER & FABER

Descriere

Lamont Williams, recently released from prison and working as a hospital janitor, strikes up an unlikely friendship with a patient, an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor who starts to tell him of his extraordinary past.

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Praise for The Street Sweeper

“[I]t seems somehow fitting that the author of The Street Sweeper, a wonderfully rich, engaging and multilayered new novel about blacks and Jews in Chicago and New York, would hail from Australia. I’ve been a fan of Elliot Perlman’s work since his 1998 novel Three Dollars. That book and his massive Seven Types of Ambiguity (2004) revealed him to be an author of rare erudition and compassion. But The Street Sweeper is his boldest work yet…” ߝ The Washington Post

“In the best kind of books, there is always that moment when the words on the page swallow the world outside — subway stations fly by, errands go un-run, rational bedtimes are abandoned — and the only goal is to gobble up the next paragraph, and the next, and the next… A towering achievement: a strikingly modern literary novel that brings the ugliest moments of 20th-century history to life, and finds real beauty there.” ߝ Entertainment Weekly

"[A] richly woven tale..." -- USA Today

"Perlman is a consummate storyteller... The narrative pull is breathtaking.... This stunning novel works, and matters, because of the expert way Perlman has recorded both the agonized howl of the past and plaintive echoes of the present." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"[Perlman] brilliantly makes personal both the Holocaust and the civil rights movement, and crafts a moving and literate page-turner." -- Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW

"Perlman’s long tale, spanning decades, is suspenseful and perfectly told in many voices, without a false note. It deals with big issues of memory, race, human fallibilities and the will to survive against the odds. A keeper: a story that speaks to the simple longing for freedom and peace, and to all the things that get in the way." -- Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW

"A master... In his intently detailed, worlds-within-worlds third novel, this discerning and unflinching investigator of moral dilemmas great and small takes on the monstrous horrors of racism in America and the Holocaust... Perlman's compulsively readable wrestle-with-evil saga is intimate and monumental, wrenching and cathartic." -- Booklist, STARRED REVIEW

Notă biografică

Elliot Perlman is the author of The Reasons I Won't Be Coming and Seven Types of Ambiguity. He also cowrote the award-winning screenplay for a film version of Three Dollars, his first novel. He lives in Australia.

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