In one of Jim Harrison’s greatest works, five members of the
Northridge family narrate the tangled epic of their history on the
Nebraska plains. The Road Home continues the story of the
captivating heroine Dalva and her peculiar and remarkable family. It
encompasses the voices of Dalva’s grandfather John Northridge, the
austere, hard-living half-Sioux patriarch; Naomi, the widow of his
favorite son and namesake; Paul, the first Northridge son, who lived
in the shadow of his brother; and Nelse, the son taken from Dalva at
birth, who now has returned to find her. It is haunted by the hovering
spirits of the father and the lover Dalva lost to this country’s
wars. It is a family history drenched in suffering and joy, imbued
with fierce independence and love, rooted in the Nebraska soil, and
intertwined with the destiny of whites and native Americans in the
American West. Epic in scope, stretching from the close of the
nineteenth century to the present day, The Road Home is a stunning
and trenchant novel, written with the humor, humanity, and inimitable
evocation of the American spirit that have delighted Jim Harrison’s
legion of fans. “A graceful novel . . . To read this book is
to feel the luminosity of nature in one’s own being.” —The New
York Times Book Review “The Road Home confirms what his longtime
fans already know: Harrison is on the short list of American literary
masters.” —The Denver Post “Demonstrates why [Harrison] is
considered one of the best storytellers around.” —The Washington
Post “The Road Home is Harrison at the peak of his powers, a
splendid combined prequel and sequel . . . very much alive and
probably his best novel.” —Boston Sunday Herald
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ISBN
9781555847937
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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