Divisadero Contributor(s): Ondaatje, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307279324 ISBN-13: 9780307279323 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $19.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: From the celebrated author of" The English Patient" and" In the Skin of a Lion" comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violence--of both hand and heart--that sets fire to the rest of their lives. "Divisadero" takes us from the city of San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada's casinos and eventually to the landscape of south-central France. It is here, outside a small rural village, that Anna becomes immersed in the life and the world of a writer from an earlier time--Lucien Segura. His compelling story, which has its beginnings at the turn of the century, circles around "the raw truth" of Anna's own life, the one she's left behind but can never truly leave. And as the narrative moves back and forth in time and place, we discover each of the characters managing to find some foothold in a present rough hewn from the past. Breathtakingly evoked and with unforgettable characters," Divisadero" is a multilayered novel about passion, loss, and the unshakable past, about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory. It is Michael Ondaatje's most intimate and beautiful novel to date. "From the Hardcover edition." |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Small Town & Rural |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2008273301 |
Series: Vintage International |
Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.28" W x 7.94" (0.68 lbs) 288 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable, intimate novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is shattered by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes us from San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada's casinos and eventually to the landscape of southern France. As the narrative moves back and forth through time and place, we find each of the characters trying to find some foothold in a present shadowed by the past. |