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Wild Ground

Autor Emily Usher
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 iun 2024

Remarcăm în „Wild Ground” un debut de ficțiune contemporană care respectă canoanele romanului de formare, însă le infuzează cu o duritate socială rară. Nu este doar o cronică a primei iubiri, ci o explorare viscerală a modului în care mediul — marcat de precaritate și adicție — dictează traiectoria unor vieți abia începute. Povestea se deschide în Leeds și se mută într-un oraș conservator din Yorkshire, unde Neef, obișnuită cu instabilitatea mamei sale, îl întâlnește pe Danny. Legătura lor devine un refugiu în fața izolării: el, fiind de origine jamaicană într-o comunitate omogenă, ea, trăind la periferia stabilității economice. Considerăm că forța acestui roman rezidă în structura sa duală. Emily Usher alternează între euforia descoperirii celuilalt și realitatea sobră a prezentului, unde o Neef adultă, acum abstinentă și stabilită la Londra, încearcă să îngroape amintirea lui Danny. Stilul are ceva din proza lui Claire Fuller în Unsettled Ground, fără să fie o imitație — acolo unde Fuller explorează izolarea rurală la vârsta adultă, Usher se concentrează pe vulnerabilitatea adolescenței și pe modul în care trauma timpurie devine o amprentă de neșters. Ritmul este susținut de o urgență narativă care nu lasă loc sentimentalismului ieftin, transformând lectura într-o experiență deopotrivă tandră și devastatoare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780593731291
ISBN-10: 0593731298
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 147 x 211 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Random House

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Despre autor

Emily Usher este o voce nouă și vibrantă în literatura britanică contemporană, iar Wild Ground reprezintă debutul său editorial. Publicată de prestigioasa editură Profile sub imprintul Serpent's Tail, autoarea a fost deja remarcată pentru precizia stilistică și capacitatea de a construi atmosfere încărcate de vitalitate și onestitate. Prin acest prim roman, Usher demonstrează o înțelegere profundă a nuanțelor clasei muncitoare din nordul Angliei și a complexității adicției, oferind o narațiune care echilibrează durerea pierderii cu speranța regenerării.


Descriere scurtă

A story of first love that will break your heart, this bittersweet debut novel follows two teenagers whose all-consuming relationship is tested by the forces of class, prejudice, and addiction. There were parts that were bliss, there were parts that were full and faultless and laden with joy. The way everything Danny and I did, everything we felt, we did, we felt together. The way we loved and loved and loved each other. As a child, it was always Neef and her mother, Chrissy--troubled, beautiful, at the mercy of addiction and a revolving door of bad boyfriends. When Neef turns twelve, it is Neef and Chrissy and Barry, the much-older man who moves them from their derelict council estate in Leeds to a small Yorkshire town where he runs the local pub. On her first day in her new home, it becomes Neef and Danny, the boy who captures her attention planting flowers in the pub garden--and then, it is somehow always Danny. Danny has already been marked as an outcast; half-Jamaican, he and his father are the only people of color in their community. Immediately drawn to each other, Neef and Danny form a friendship that gives way to the slow burn of romance as they grow up. Desperate to escape the confines of their world, Neef and Danny cling to each other throughout their adolescence, even as their relationship strains against the same forces that hold their families hostage: substance abuse, poverty, racism. For a while, though, it seems like it could be Neef and Danny forever. But then, finally, it is just Neef. Sober, living in London, trying to tell herself she never knew a boy called Danny, never loved him, never had him wrenched away from her. That is, until someone from those days comes seeking redemption, and she cannot pretend any longer. Braiding together past and present, Wild Ground introduces us to a young woman both coming of age and coming to terms with herself. This tender and moving debut, at once heartbreaking and hopeful, is an aching love story impossible to forget.

Notă biografică

Emily Usher grew up in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, and has lived in Salford, Sheffield and London. In 2012 she relocated to Australia, where she now lives with her husband and three children.

Recenzii

A glittering exploration of love's many faces - Wild Ground aches with hard-won hope and bruised tenderness
Written in a fresh northern vernacular tinged with romanticism and regret, Wild Ground is an intoxicating debut from a compelling new voice
Wild Ground is a heart-breaking tale of love and loss, and as addictive as Normal People. But, more than that: a thought-provoking examination of how Whiteness pervades and causes harm, how our histories haunt us, and how dreams grow and wither. A propulsive, gut-wrenching read
It's incredible and I couldn't put it down ... Emily Usher's writing is extraordinary
Emily Usher is a wonderfully restrained and unfailingly compassionate storyteller, and she has written a deep and all-around beautiful debut novel. Wild Ground is a love story that captures the realities of being young and oppressed - yet hopeful and searching. It is honest and so touching as to be heartbreaking
Wild Ground is a novel for anyone who remembers the intensity and vagaries of first love or has ever fought for survival against stacked odds. Emily Usher has written an aching coming-of-age story that is heartbreaking and profound, gorgeous and unforgettable about two teenagers' struggle to thrive in a small English town. This book shimmers with longing. It beautifully encapsulates the powerlessness of adolescence against forces of poverty, discrimination, and addiction and the ways a lost first love can haunt someone forever
Reading this book is like holding a heartbeat in your hands. It's bare, melodic, and thrums with a bold and aching pulse. I couldn't look away from Neef and Danny, the untamed and sacrificial love they share in a violent world. This is a hypnotic story of both beauty and betrayal, one that will settle beneath your skin and set fire to your soul
Usher's prose is electric - each character, place, and location surges with a gripping urgency and vitality. Her narrative world, however chilling, feels totally honest, alive, and exacting. Usher's pacing, too, is remarkable; each turn is unexpected and yet wholly fitting, each transition between present and past seamless and ensnaring. Both harrowing and hopeful, a generative bildungsroman from an exciting debut novelist.
A hauntingly evocative story with lyrical prose and a deeply atmospheric setting