Book : The Lowering Days A Novel - Brown, Gregory

-Titulo Original : The Lowering Days A Novel

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Harper Perennial

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Review “In The Lowering Days Gregory Brown gives us a lush, almost mythic portrait of a very specific place and time that feels all the more universal for its singularity. There’s magic here.” -- Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls and Chances Are“The Lowering Days is expansive in its scope and intimate in its details, a lyrical and sincere work by a novelist fully alive to the natural world. -- Anthony Marra, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital PhenomenaThe Lowering Days is a masterful debut, a tender and elegant meditation on the thorny bonds of family and community, the enduring trauma of environmental degradations, and the salvific power of stories. At once lyrical and spare, graceful and steely-eyed, Mr. Brown’s prose conjures the work of Louise Erdrich and Jim Harrison. Every word is a gift and a revelation, and a call for reckoning. -- Elizabeth Wetmore, author of ValentineUnflinching, lyrical, and timely, The Lowering Days marks the emergence of a new and authentic voice in American letters. Brown is bona fide, a writer with incredible storytelling chops yes, but also a poets soul, and a balladeers heart. -- Nickolas Butler, author of Shotgun Lovesongs and Little Faith“An intimate novel about a close-knit community at the mercy of two of the world’s most implacable forces-history and nature. Gregory Brown renders the lives and landscapes of rural Maine with great power and greater compassion.” -- Madhuri Vijay, author of The Far Field“Brown stages a natural comparison: Why does each character resort to violence? Are their actions justified? How are they treated in the aftermath? The disparity quickly becomes clear: Molly must go into hiding and live off the land, while David and his family can return home safely each night.” -- New York TimesGraceful and compassionate . . . The Lowering Days [is] a flashlight into the heart of a small Maine community perched on the precipice of the Penobscot River, its future and its past. -- Boston GlobeBrown writes a fluid, lyrical prose that escorts us deep into the emotional lives of his characters. -- Minneapolis Star TribuneBrown tells a gripping tale. And in his hands the Penobscot region of the 1980s and 90s-with its eccentric cast of Vietnam veterans, hippy fugitives, gruff lobstermen, and Penobscot tribal members-comes wonderfully to life. -- Kirkus ReviewsLyrical and gorgeously written, Brown’s memorable outing does justice to a complicated web of issues. -- Publishers Weekly “In The Lowering Days Gregory Brown gives us a lush, almost mythic portrait of a very specific place and time that feels all the more universal for its singularity. There’s magic here.” -Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls and Chances AreA promising literary star makes his debut with this emotionally powerful saga, set in 1980s Maine, that explores family love, the power of myths and storytelling, survival and environmental exploitation, and the ties between cultural identity and the land we live onIf you paid attention, you could see the entire unfolding of human history in a story . . .Growing up, David Almerin Ames and his brothers, Link and Simon, believed the wild patch of Maine where they lived along the Penobscot River belonged to them. Running down the state like a spine, the river shared its name with the people of the Penobscot Nation, whose ancestral territory included the entire Penobscot watershed-the land upon which the Ames family eventually made their home. The brothers’ affinity for the natural world derives from their iconoclastic parents, Arnoux, a romantic artist and Vietnam War deserter who builds boats by hand, and Falon, an activist journalist who runs The Lowering Days, a community newspaper which gives equal voice to indigenous and white issues. But the boys’ childhood reverie is shattered when a bankrupt paper mill, once the Penobscot Valley’s largest