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Across Open Ground par Heather Parkinson (Livre de poche 2002)
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- État
- Très bon
- Remarques du vendeur
- “Very Good Condition, May Have Some Light Cover/ Read wear.”
- Binding
- Paperback
- Product Group
- Book
- Type
- Novel
- Year
- 2002
- Publication Name
- Bloomsbury USA
- Era
- 2000s
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- Weight
- 0.65 lbs
- Subject
- American West Early Days
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9781582342894
- EAN
- 9781582342894
- Book Title
- Across Open Ground
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Romance / Historical / General, Historical
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 10.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Product Information
With echoes of Cormac McCarthy, an exquisite debut novel from America's heartland. Seventeen-year-old Walter Pascoe sets out for his first season as a sheep herder and learns quickly the dangers and beauties of the land. Also awakening to matters of the heart, Walter falls in love with a beautiful trapper named Trina Ivy. As they grow closer, America is on the brink of entering the First World War, and is beginning to feel an economic strain and a growing sense of patriotism. When Walter is drafted, he is bound by duty to leave the land and his lover to serve his country. With an economic eloquence and an ear for the poetry that permeates life lived close to the land, Parkinson deftly illuminates the rituals and disturbances of her characters' world. She sketches the strong bonds and shifting alliances, the intimacy and insularity of family and social life in the fledgling towns of the American West. Amidst the quiet passion that builds between lovers kept apart by miles of prairie and months of seasonal work, the slow specter of war is creeping over a world that heretofore had seemed immutable. An epic novel about the brutality of nature, the yearnings of first love and the realities of war, Across Open Ground is a remarkable achievement. Parkinson has written a deceptively quiet work of staggering depth, infused with dignity and heartwrenching emotion.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
158234289x
ISBN-13
9781582342894
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3038483220
Product Key Features
Book Title
Across Open Ground
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Romance / Historical / General, Historical
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Reviews
Imagine a no-nonsense, earthy novel, a cross between the heartfelt sincerity of Kent Haruf's Plainsong and the staccato, aw-shucks delivery of an old Gunsmoke television episode, and you'll come close to imagining Heather Parkinson's novel...The prose style itself is engaging and impressive...Metaphors are polished and sharply honed, and her descriptions have a sleek polish that's wonderfully appropriate to her open-air settings., A kind of ballad to the American landscape....A mature, strikingly voiced portrait of the American West., "[A] lyrical, evocative debut novel...with a tenderness generally absent from more conventional books about this era in the American West." -Publishers Weekly "An immensely impressive debut... Parkinson displays an astonishing gift for depicting, soldier by soldier, the suffering and uncertainty of an entire unit of spiritually battered veterans returning home by train. Instead of keeping history at bay, as [Cormac] McCarthy so often does, she allows its unsettling presence into her novel, and the book is richer for it." - New York Times Book Review "A kind of ballad to the American landscape....A mature, strikingly voiced portrait of the American West." -- Kirkus Reviews "With echoes of Cormac McCarthy, [ Across Open Ground is a spare and lyrical portrait of the Great Plains."- Idaho Statesman "[ Across Open Ground ] demands to be read slowly, maybe even savored...Parkinson touches on larger questions about good and evil, man and nature...vivid...An impressive debut."- Booklist "When you read a beautifully written love story, love awakens wherever it has been sleeping in you. Not a simpering sentimental story, not a sex manual, but a story that conveys the balance of pain and sweetness that love is. You lean into stories like these, turning the pages quickly to get to the parts where the lovers finally enter their own world and leave the world of suffering outside. Across Open Ground is such a story."- Los Angles Times Book Review "Heather Parkinson deftly captures the compelling allure of the isolation and beauty that has drawn men and women to the high mountain West...In the style of Virginia Woolf, the author often brings a luminescent quality to the narrative. The characterizations are first-rate... Across Open Ground is a powerful story, as much about change as about love and war."- Denver Post & Rocky Mountain News "Parkinson's prose can be strong moonshine...[she] keeps a tight rein on description, roping it in just enough to give her novel a quietude still as morning."- San Diego Union Tribune 'Imagine a no-nonsense, earthy novel, a cross between the heartfelt sincerity of Kent Haruf's Plainsong and the staccato, aw-shucks delivery of an old Gunsmoke television episode, and you'll come close to imagining Heather Parkinson's novel...The prose style itself is engaging and impressive...Metaphors are polished and sharply honed, and her descriptions have a sleek polish that's wonderfully appropriate to her open-air settings."- The Sunday Oregonian "The authority of the narrative voice and the author's developed artistic sensibility belie her age. Beyond that, she writes extremely well: clear and precise at times, evocative and lyrical at others. Parkinson seems to have a natural sense of when to let her prose run and when to rein it in to keep the narrative on course. She is an unusual writer in this regard."-Idaho Mountain Express "[Parkinson] paints with words so clear and precise that we are immediately transported through time and space to a storm-bedeviled sheep drive in the Wood River Valley area during World War I."- Idaho Statesman "Beguiling."- The Miami Herald "Heather Parkinson deftly captures the compelling allure of the isolation and beauty that has drawn men and women to the high mountain West...In the style of Virginia Woolf, the author often brings a luminescent quality to the narrative. The characterizations are first-rate...All the female characters, often given short shrift in novels set in the West, are well-drawn... Across Open Ground is a powerful story, as much about change as about love and war."- Denver Post, "[A] lyrical, evocative debut novel...with a tenderness generally absent from more conventional books about this era in the American West."-Publishers Weekly "An immensely impressive debut... Parkinson displays an astonishing gift for depicting, soldier by soldier, the suffering and uncertainty of an entire unit of spiritually battered veterans returning home by train. Instead of keeping history at bay, as [Cormac] McCarthy so often does, she allows its unsettling presence into her novel, and the book is richer for it." -New York Times Book Review "A kind of ballad to the American landscape....A mature, strikingly voiced portrait of the American West." --Kirkus Reviews "With echoes of Cormac McCarthy, [Across Open Ground is a spare and lyrical portrait of the Great Plains."-Idaho Statesman "[Across Open Ground] demands to be read slowly, maybe even savored...Parkinson touches on larger questions about good and evil, man and nature...vivid...An impressive debut."-Booklist, [Parkinson] paints with words so clear and precise that we are immediately transported through time and space to a storm-bedeviled sheep drive in the Wood River Valley area during World War I., When you read a beautifully written love story, love awakens wherever it has been sleeping in you. Not a simpering sentimental story, not a sex manual, but a story that conveys the balance of pain and sweetness that love is. You lean into stories like these, turning the pages quickly to get to the parts where the lovers finally enter their own world and leave the world of suffering outside. Across Open Ground is such a story., [A] lyrical, evocative debut novel...with a tenderness generally absent from more conventional books about this era in the American West., An immensely impressive debut... Parkinson displays an astonishing gift for depicting, soldier by soldier, the suffering and uncertainty of an entire unit of spiritually battered veterans returning home by train. Instead of keeping history at bay, as [Cormac] McCarthy so often does, she allows its unsettling presence into her novel, and the book is richer for it., With echoes of Cormac McCarthy, [ Across Open Ground is a spare and lyrical portrait of the Great Plains., Parkinson's prose can be strong moonshine...[she] keeps a tight rein on description, roping it in just enough to give her novel a quietude still as morning., The authority of the narrative voice and the author's developed artistic sensibility belie her age. Beyond that, she writes extremely well: clear and precise at times, evocative and lyrical at others. Parkinson seems to have a natural sense of when to let her prose run and when to rein it in to keep the narrative on course. She is an unusual writer in this regard., Heather Parkinson deftly captures the compelling allure of the isolation and beauty that has drawn men and women to the high mountain West...In the style of Virginia Woolf, the author often brings a luminescent quality to the narrative. The characterizations are first-rate... Across Open Ground is a powerful story, as much about change as about love and war., [ Across Open Ground ] demands to be read slowly, maybe even savored...Parkinson touches on larger questions about good and evil, man and nature...vivid...An impressive debut., "[A] lyrical, evocative debut novel...with a tenderness generally absent from more conventional books about this era in the American West." -- Publishers Weekly "An immensely impressive debut... Parkinson displays an astonishing gift for depicting, soldier by soldier, the suffering and uncertainty of an entire unit of spiritually battered veterans returning home by train. Instead of keeping history at bay, as [Cormac] McCarthy so often does, she allows its unsettling presence into her novel, and the book is richer for it." -- New York Times Book Review "A kind of ballad to the American landscape....A mature, strikingly voiced portrait of the American West." -- Kirkus Reviews "With echoes of Cormac McCarthy, [ Across Open Ground is a spare and lyrical portrait of the Great Plains." -- Idaho Statesman "[ Across Open Ground ] demands to be read slowly, maybe even savored...Parkinson touches on larger questions about good and evil, man and nature...vivid...An impressive debut." -- Booklist "When you read a beautifully written love story, love awakens wherever it has been sleeping in you. Not a simpering sentimental story, not a sex manual, but a story that conveys the balance of pain and sweetness that love is. You lean into stories like these, turning the pages quickly to get to the parts where the lovers finally enter their own world and leave the world of suffering outside. Across Open Ground is such a story." -- Los Angles Times Book Review "Heather Parkinson deftly captures the compelling allure of the isolation and beauty that has drawn men and women to the high mountain West...In the style of Virginia Woolf, the author often brings a luminescent quality to the narrative. The characterizations are first-rate... Across Open Ground is a powerful story, as much about change as about love and war." -- Denver Post & Rocky Mountain News "Parkinson's prose can be strong moonshine...[she] keeps a tight rein on description, roping it in just enough to give her novel a quietude still as morning." -- San Diego Union Tribune "Imagine a no-nonsense, earthy novel, a cross between the heartfelt sincerity of Kent Haruf's Plainsong and the staccato, aw-shucks delivery of an old Gunsmoke television episode, and you'll come close to imagining Heather Parkinson's novel...The prose style itself is engaging and impressive...Metaphors are polished and sharply honed, and her descriptions have a sleek polish that's wonderfully appropriate to her open-air settings." -- The Sunday Oregonian "The authority of the narrative voice and the author's developed artistic sensibility belie her age. Beyond that, she writes extremely well: clear and precise at times, evocative and lyrical at others. Parkinson seems to have a natural sense of when to let her prose run and when to rein it in to keep the narrative on course. She is an unusual writer in this regard." -- Idaho Mountain Express "[Parkinson] paints with words so clear and precise that we are immediately transported through time and space to a storm-bedeviled sheep drive in the Wood River Valley area during World War I." -- Idaho Statesman "Beguiling." -- The Miami Herald "Heather Parkinson deftly captures the compelling allure of the isolation and beauty that has drawn men and women to the high mountain West...In the style of Virginia Woolf, the author often brings a luminescent quality to the narrative. The characterizations are first-rate...All the female characters, often given short shrift in novels set in the West, are well-drawn... Across Open Ground is a powerful story, as much about change as about love and war." -- Denver Post
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