Son
«'The Son makes a viable claim to be a Great American Novel... an extraordinary orchestration of American history'»
Washington Post
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES starring Pierce Brosnan and co-written by Philipp Meyer The critically acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling epic, a saga of land, blood and power, follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the oil booms of the 20th century. Les mer
But when disease, starvation and westward expansion finally decimate the Comanche, Eli is left alone in a world in which he belongs nowhere, neither white nor Indian, civilized nor fully wild. Deftly interweaving Eli's story with those of his son Peter and his great-granddaughter JA, The Son maps the legacy of Eli's ruthlessness, his drive to power and his lifelong status as an outsider, even as the McCullough family rises to become one of the richest in Texas, a ranching and oil dynasty that is as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim. Yet, like all empires, the McCulloughs must eventually face the consequences of their choices.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Scribner UK
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781471167379
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«'The Son makes a viable claim to be a Great American Novel... an extraordinary orchestration of American history'»
Washington Post
«'Stunning ... a book that for once really does deserve to be called a masterpiece' »
Kate Atkinson
«'Magnificent ... McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a point of reference, as is There Will Be Blood, but it is not fanciful to be reminded of certain passages from Moby-Dick - it's that good'»
The Times
«'Only in the greatest of historical novels do we come to feel both the distance of the past and our own likely complicity in the sins of a former age, had we been a part of it. To that rank, we now add The Son'»
New York Times
«'Its viscerality and boundless capacity for storytelling puts it on a par with the classic of the genre, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian' »
Sunday Telegraph
«'Brilliant ... a wonderful novel' »
Lionel Shriver
«'Meyer is an impressive and multi-talented storyteller in the old, good sense – the kind that makes me hang on for whatever the next chapter will hold'»
Richard Ford
«‘The Son is an epic, heroic, hallucinatory work of art’»
Chris Cleave