Claire Messud

The Emperor's Children

Mitarbeit:Mukherjee, Neel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the glittering tradition of Edith Wharton, The Emperor's Children examines life in upper-crust Manhattan, and tells a compelling story of ambition, vanity and tragedy

Produktdetails

• Picador Classic
• Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International / Picador
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781447289418
• ISBN-10: 1447289412
• Artikelnr.: 42186912

Autorenporträt

Claire Messud was educated at Yale and Cambridge. Her first novel, When the World Was Steady, and her book of novellas, The Hunters , were finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award; her second novel, The Last Life , was a Publishers' Weekly Best Book of the Year; all three books were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship and the Straus Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with her husband and children.

Rezensionen

In its scope, style and substance, The Emperor's Children is an attempt to return the novel to its golden age; it is engaged in a conversation with George Eliot, Henry James, Dostoevsky. Its psychological realism is perfect, its characters . . . thrillingly real, alive and utterly convincing in their subtleties of thought and the ticking of their minds.
Messud's prose is a timely and intensely pleasurable reminder of the possibilities of the English language. To use the word clarity about her style - dense, chaste, luminously intelligent - is to return the word to its origins; this is style as illumination, shining a searching yet sympathetic light on the minds and inner worlds of her characters, and as a radiant mode of moral inquiry.
The Times