PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
World's End
An expansive novel of New England history and the secrets hidden inside a family. Told across generations, it circles around land and memory, revealing a deeper layer of America through a voice shaped by humor and shadow.
Work Information
A multigenerational journey through a New England family history.
Across generations of narration, family memory and the history of place become tightly intertwined. With humor and shadow, the novel reaches into a hidden depth of America.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Published
- 1987-10-08
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 50.8 x 50.8 x 50.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780670814893
- ISBN-10
- 067081489X
- Price
- 13769 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Contemporary
Walter Van Brunt, woozy with pot, cheap wine, and sex, collides with his own historical roots when he crashes his motorcycle into a historical marker along the highway
Reviews
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Mi toma de contacto con la obra de TC Boyle
En el último año había oído hablar varias veces sobre el autor, siempre en buenos términos, así que me decidí por comenzar con su trabajo más conocido (y galardonado con el PEN/Faulkner). Hasta el momento no me decepciona: estructurado, documentado, exquisitamente escrito, Boyle es capaz de llevarte de una página a la siguiente.
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great read
Great read written by a sharp author
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One of world's best
An entertaining and impressive reading session by TC Boyle brought me to start with his work by reading "World's End". With him being such a witty and silver-tongued person, my expectations were high, and they were totally fulfilled. I agree that the first chapters were tough to get through, due to the amount of characters, the switches between centuries and also the amount of plots running parallely. But do stick to it and you will be rewarded by a fascinating puzzle being put together into one fantastic picture towards the end of the book. This entanglement of strands, that never turn boring within themselves, is simply brilliant and suggests hard work with much attention to detail. To me, there wasn't a single moment of less suspense in this book, which indeed is not the shortest one. I highly, highly recommend it to everybody with affection for intelligent plots and, not least, wonderfully rich language. Kristin Hogk, HoRa-Translations
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great read
on time as described no complaints
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Quelle plume !
Tout simplement exceptionnel. Pour ceux qui l'auraient apprécié je recommande vivement le recueil de nouvelles intitulé... "T.C. Boyle Stories." Sept cents pages de pur plaisir (Penguin Books.)