Book : The Hero Of This Book A Novel - McCracken, Elizabeth

-Titulo Original : The Hero Of This Book A Novel

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Ecco

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A Most Anticipated Book of Fall from: Austin-American Statesman * BookPage * Book Riot * Boston Globe * Entertainment Weekly * LitHub* Los Angeles Times * The Millions * Oprah Daily * Philadelphia Inquirer * Publishers Weekly * St. Louis Post Dispatch * Town & Country * USA Today A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, about a writer’s relationship with her larger-than-life mother-and about the very nature of writing, memory, and art Ten months after her mother’s death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book takes a trip to London. The city was a favorite of her mother’s, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself reflecting on her mother’s life and their relationship. Thoughts of the past meld with questions of the future: Back in New England, the family home is now up for sale, its considerable contents already winnowed. The woman, a writer, recalls all that made her complicated mother extraordinary-her brilliant wit, her generosity, her unbelievable obstinacy, her sheer will in seizing life despite physical difficulties-and finds herself wondering how her mother had endured. Even though she wants to respect her mother’s nearly pathological sense of privacy, the woman must come to terms with whether making a chronicle of this remarkable life constitutes an act of love or betrayal. The Hero of This Book is a searing examination of grief and renewal, and of a deeply felt relationship between a child and her parents. What begins as a question of filial devotion ultimately becomes a lesson in what it means to write. At once comic and heartbreaking, with prose that delights at every turn, this is a novel of such piercing love and tenderness that we are reminded that art is what remains when all else falls away. Review “The Hero of This Book is simple and lovely. McCracken’s easy prose is a joy to read, right off the bat… remarkable.” - Associated Press “Its a joyful, wistful, funny tribute to a woman who may or may not (but probably was) inspired by the authors own parent, written with such loving detail that it is as if the reader is right there, part of the pairs tight family circle.” - Oprah Daily “Leave it to Elizabeth McCracken to refresh the genre of the parental tribute…This layered book is packed with consequence, with love, with funny observations, with reflections on writing and the risks of hurting yourself and others….Mission accomplished. Natalie Jacobson McCracken, 1935-2018, comes alive as a wonderful hero of this book - and so does her daughter for writing it.” - Heller McAlpin, NPR.ORG “[H]er words create an exquisite alchemy that makes a reader ready to follow her anywhere, believe every word she writes down. Is this book a novel or is it a memoir? It matters not at all. With every vital, potent sentence, McCracken conveys the electric and primal nature of that first fundamental love.” - Janice Y.K. Lee, New York Times Book Review (“Editors’ Choice”) “[A] beguiling meditation on family, grief, and caretaking that also addresses the burdens of storytelling: how much freedom you have - or don’t - to write about family members after they’re gone. With infinite freedom to invent, McCracken sparkles. McCracken sparkles.” - Boston Globe “This compact, wise, heartfelt book is another sign that McCracken continues to do it right.” - Minneapolis Star Tribune “How reassuring it is to have writers like Elizabeth McCracken among us. She has no interest in gaining a few yards on the field. Frontiers do not interest her. Her fiction does not offer us a map. She trusts that her real readers are not interested in being delivered to the destination. Her specialty is the interior, and the interior is vast. We must bring our own compasses, emotional and aesthetic.” - Yiyun Li, Harper’s “Readers who enjoy tales of quiet, internal reflection will find themselves right at home in this thoughtful exploration of the lived experience of grie