The Hero of This Book
McCracken, Elizabeth
A Book of the Year in the New Yorker, Time, NPR, Washington Post, People
Magazine and Oprah DailyA taut, groundbreaking new novel about a
writer’s relationship with her larger-than-life mother - and about the
very nature of writingTen months after her mother’s death, the narrator
of The Hero of This Book walks across London on a quiet Sunday. The city
was a favourite 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.
At once comic and
heartbreaking, with prose that surprises 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.
Kustantaja: Penguin
Sidosasu: Kovakantinen
ean: 9781787334281
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