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| Verlag | Bloomsbury Trade |
| Auflage | 2017 |
| Seiten | 576 |
| Format | 12,9 x 19,7 x 3,6 cm |
| Gewicht | 389 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Bloomsbury Paperbacks |
| ISBN-10 | 1408879565 |
| EAN | 9781408879566 |
| Bestell-Nr | 40887956UA |
An astounding novel, where personal ambition battles against family love, and the most complex intellectual ideas leap from the page with dazzling and seductive beauty
Klappentext:
The flame of genius scorches every generation it touches.
Following a lonely upbringing in the woods of northern Michigan, Milo Andret enrols as a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley, where the faculty is the first to recognize that the young man\'s childhood solitude has created a prodigiously unusual mind. Yet with Milo\'s great gifts come great risks, and California in the seventies is rife with temptation. The research he begins at Berkeley will make him a legend; the woman, and the rival he meets, will haunt him forever. For it soon becomes clear that Milo\'s brilliance is linked to a dark need that ultimately threatens to destroy not only his work and his marriage, but the lives of all his children, as well.
A Doubter\'s Almanac is at once a captivatingly virtuoso illustration of the powers of the mind and a deeply moving exploration of the nature of love, ambition and genius. It is a novel of flawed characters and unreachable dreams, of bonds that tie and passions that destroy; a major work of dazzling and seductive beauty from one of our foremost writers.
Rezension:
Searing scenes place Canin in a particular East Coast American tradition of meticulously detailed domestic realism that descends through a line of Johns - Cheever, Updike, Irving . These influences, though, add up to a remarkable achievement of Canin\'s own. This is big, serious, completely involving fiction of a kind rarely written today ... Canin has achieved a proof of his own high value to American fiction Mark Lawson Guardian