Exiles in the Garden (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
A "fascinatingly readable" novel that ponders "where the personal becomes the political or if it is possible to maintain a distinction at all" (Miami Herald).
In his fifty-four years in the US Senate, Kim Malone made a difference. Emulating FDR, he...
In his fifty-four years in the US Senate, Kim Malone made a difference. Emulating FDR, he...
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A "fascinatingly readable" novel that ponders "where the personal becomes the political or if it is possible to maintain a distinction at all" (Miami Herald).
In his fifty-four years in the US Senate, Kim Malone made a difference. Emulating FDR, he advocated and agitated, fighting for the ideals in which he believed. His son, Alec, however, was a different story-one Kim thinks on as he lies on his deathbed, with only the prodigal Alec for company.
Eschewing his congressional heritage for a career as a newspaper photographer and distancing himself even further from politics by refusing to cover the Vietnam War, Alec has seemed to live a never-ending series of misadventures, complete with a failed marriage and a floundering vocation. So when his long-absent father-in-law, an antifascist commando from Czechoslovakia, appears on his doorstep, Alec finds himself confronting uncomfortable truths about his life, his choices, and the pasts of those surrounding him.
Ward Just has been praised as "one of the most astute writers of American fiction," and Exiles in the Garden stands as one of his most challenging, insightful, and compulsively readable works-an examination of personal morality, American politics, and the universal desires that bind us all (The New York Times Book Review).
In his fifty-four years in the US Senate, Kim Malone made a difference. Emulating FDR, he advocated and agitated, fighting for the ideals in which he believed. His son, Alec, however, was a different story-one Kim thinks on as he lies on his deathbed, with only the prodigal Alec for company.
Eschewing his congressional heritage for a career as a newspaper photographer and distancing himself even further from politics by refusing to cover the Vietnam War, Alec has seemed to live a never-ending series of misadventures, complete with a failed marriage and a floundering vocation. So when his long-absent father-in-law, an antifascist commando from Czechoslovakia, appears on his doorstep, Alec finds himself confronting uncomfortable truths about his life, his choices, and the pasts of those surrounding him.
Ward Just has been praised as "one of the most astute writers of American fiction," and Exiles in the Garden stands as one of his most challenging, insightful, and compulsively readable works-an examination of personal morality, American politics, and the universal desires that bind us all (The New York Times Book Review).
Autoren-Porträt von Ward Just
WARD JUST's novels include Exiles in the Garden, Forgetfulness, the National Book Award finalist Echo House, A Dangerous Friend, winner of the Cooper Prize for fiction from the Society of American Historians, and An Unfinished Season, winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award and a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ward Just
- 2017, 288 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Mariner Books
- ISBN-10: 0547394373
- ISBN-13: 9780547394374
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2017
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“Set mostly in Washington, [Exiles in the Garden] provides shrewd observations about that stiflingly self-centered capital and its public ways and private folkways. . . . [Just] writes perceptively about the contrast between European and American values. Best of all is the epigrammatic quality his writing achieves.” —Los Angeles Times“‘Exiles in the Garden’ is [Just’s] 16th novel and is, for my money, one of his three best, the others being ‘A Family Trust’ (1978) and ‘An Unfinished Season’ (2004). . . . He has a loyal following even in this difficult time for the book industry.” —The Washington Post
“Cultured, beautifully controlled fiction . . . Elegant.” —The Plain Dealer
“The novel is fascinatingly readable and at the same time deeper than we expect. . . . [Just] leaves us pondering that ageless question of where the personal becomes the political or if it is possible to maintain a distinction at all.” —The Miami Herald
“One cannot read the fiction of Ward Just without concluding that we are all expatriates, or, to crib from the title of his latest novel, that we are exiles in the garden of our lives.” —Chicago Tribune
“Master novelist Just continues his commanding inquiry into the complexities of inheritance, politics, bloodshed, art, fame, and fate, taking measure of the everlasting wounds of war and moral compromise. A virtuoso writer of graceful wit and offhanded gravitas, Just tells this elegant yet harrowing tale of the entanglement of the personal and the geopolitical in sentences infused with the tensile strength of suspension bridges spanning earthly fire and the dark tides of the psyche.” —Booklist
“Just writes with confidence and authority as he works through larger themes
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of politics, history, war and historical judgment. This intellectually rigorous narrative is absorbing, timely and very Washington.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Ward Just’s 16th novel offers further proof that, as much as any author working today, he writes for grownups. Exiles in the Garden is another of his intricate, intellectually challenging character studies that trades flashy action for a psychologically astute investigation into the deepest recesses of public and private morality. . . . Ward Just began his career as a journalist and that training is evident in his keen eye for detail and his ability to penetrate to the essence of his subjects’ lives. In characteristic meditative style, he reveals how the choices of his flawed, complex characters resonate down through the decades. His latest novel is one more brick in an edifice of work that someday should be read by historians looking for insight into the world of modern American politics and contemporary statecraft.” —Shelf Awareness
“Ward Just’s 16th novel offers further proof that, as much as any author working today, he writes for grownups. Exiles in the Garden is another of his intricate, intellectually challenging character studies that trades flashy action for a psychologically astute investigation into the deepest recesses of public and private morality. . . . Ward Just began his career as a journalist and that training is evident in his keen eye for detail and his ability to penetrate to the essence of his subjects’ lives. In characteristic meditative style, he reveals how the choices of his flawed, complex characters resonate down through the decades. His latest novel is one more brick in an edifice of work that someday should be read by historians looking for insight into the world of modern American politics and contemporary statecraft.” —Shelf Awareness
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