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This Other Eden: a Novel by Paul Harding (First Printing) Hardcover

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État
Comme neuf: Un livre qui a l’air neuf mais qui a été lu. La couverture ne présente pas d’usure et ...
Signed
No
Ex Libris
No
Narrative Type
Fiction
Original Language
English
Intended Audience
Adults
Inscribed
No
Edition
First Edition
Vintage
No
Personalize
No
Type
Novel
Personalized
No
Features
Dust Jacket
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
ISBN
9781324036296
Book Title
This Other Eden : a Novel
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Item Length
9.4 in
Publication Year
2023
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.8 in
Author
Paul Harding
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Sagas, Small Town & Rural, Literary
Item Weight
15.7 Oz
Item Width
6.3 in
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys' descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated, and often hungry, but nevertheless protected from the hostility awaiting them on the mainland. During the tumultuous summer of 1912, Matthew Diamond, a retired, idealistic but prejudiced schoolteacher-turned-missionary, disrupts the community's fragile balance through his efforts to educate its children. His presence attracts the attention of authorities on the mainland who, under the influence of the eugenics-thinking popular among progressives of the day, decide to forcibly evacuate the island, institutionalize its residents, and develop the island as a vacation destination. Beginning with a hurricane flood reminiscent of the story of Noah's Ark, the novel ends with yet another Ark. In prose of breathtaking beauty and power, Paul Harding brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters: Iris and Violet McDermott, sisters raising three orphaned Penobscot children; Theophilus and Candace Larks and their brood of vagabond children; the prophetic Zachary Hand to God Proverbs, a Civil War veteran who lives in a hollow tree; and more. A spellbinding story of resistance and survival, This Other Eden is an enduring testament to the struggle to preserve human dignity in the face of intolerance and injustice.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
132403629x
ISBN-13
9781324036296
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20057260021

Product Key Features

Book Title
This Other Eden : a Novel
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Sagas, Small Town & Rural, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Author
Paul Harding
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
15.7 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
There is no writer alive anything like Paul Harding, and This Other Eden proves it: astonishingly beautiful, humane, strange, interested in philosophy and the heart, stunningly written. It's about home, love, heredity, cruelty, and the very nature of art, so completely original it's hard to know how to describe it in a mere blurb, by which I mean: you must read this book.--Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Souvenir Museum, [This Other Eden] is a harrowing tale of paradise lost and a lyrical examination of people in isolation just trying to get by...[It] is a novel that is both devastating and meditative, a combination that is characteristic of Harding's work., Pulitzer winner Harding (Tinkers) suffuses deep feeling into this understated yet wrenching story...It's a remarkable achievement., Harding's gifts have found their fullest expression in This Other Eden. Pick any excerpt from these 200 pages and you will find that each sentence contains multitudes and works well by itself, and yet the chapters, the paragraphs, have also been sewn together into a numinous whole.... The novel impresses time and again because of the depth of Harding's sentences, their breathless angelic light., In boldly lyrical prose, This Other Eden shows us a once-thriving racial utopia in its final days, at a time when race and science were colliding in chilling ways. In the stories of the Apple Islanders--especially that of Ethan Honey, spared a destructive fate because of his artistic gifts and his fair skin--we are made to confront the ambiguous nature of mercy, the limits of tolerance, and what it means to be truly saved. A luminous, thought-provoking novel., Harding's third novel revisits an appalling moment in Maine history...a brief book that carries the weight of history. A moving account of community and displacement., Harding, who won a dark-horse Pulitzer Prize for Tinkers, again demonstrates his gifts for concision and compassion in a narrative that balances historical fact with fully drawn characters...Sure to be a standout of 2023., A superb achievement...Harding combines an engrossing plot with deft characterizations and alluring language deeply attuned to nature's artistry. The biblical parallels, which naturally align with the characters' circumstances, add depth, and enhance the universality of the themes...This gorgeously limned portrait about family bonds, the loss of innocence, the insidious effects of racism, and the innate worthiness of individual lives will resonate long afterward., There is no writer alive anything like Paul Harding, and This Other Eden proves it: astonishingly beautiful, humane, strange, interested in philosophy and the heart, stunningly written. It's about home, love, heredity, cruelty, and the very nature of art, so completely original it's hard to know how to describe it in a mere blurb, by which I mean: you must read this book., [Harding] writes with the gravitas of a mythmaker...The pace of Harding's storytelling is stately, his descriptions, even of small events, gorgeous...This Other Eden is beautiful and agonizing--rather like the real place that inspired it., This Other Eden is ultimately a testament of love: love of kin, love of nature, love of art, love of self, love of home. Harding has written a novel out of poetry and sunlight, violent history and tender remembering. The humans he has created are, thankfully, not flattened into props and gimmicks, which sometimes happens when writers work across time and difference; instead they pulse with aliveness, dreamlike but tangible, so real it could make you weep., Tender, magical, and haunting, Paul Harding's This Other Eden is that rare novel that makes profound claims on our present age while being, very simply, a graceful performance of language and storytelling. Here is prose that touchingly holds its imagined island community in a light that can only be described as generous and dazzling. I have not read a novel this achingly beautiful in a while, nor one in which the fate of its characters I will not soon forget.
Lccn
2022-058144
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Lc Classification Number
Ps3608.A72535t55

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Love to read and his previous novel “Tinkers” was one I enjoyed and am looking forward to this one
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    While it's for a class in OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute), I am enjoying the book. I recommend it highly.

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  • Maine unknown history

    Very interesting book and a story of a mostly unknown group of Maine residents

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  • Love to read and his previous novel “Tinkers” was one I enjoyed and am looking forward to this one

    Love to read and his previous novel “Tinkers” was one I enjoyed and am looking forward to this one

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    Harding is one of the greatest living American writers…

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