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Nine Shiny Objects : A Novel by Brian Castleberry (2020, Hardcover)
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- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- ISBN
- 9780062984395
- Book Title
- Nine Shiny Objects : a Novel
- Item Length
- 9.1 in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary, Political, Historical
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Item Weight
- 17.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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"In this extraordinary novel, Castleberry brilliantly hopscotches from person to person, from era to era, while somehow making all this fancy footwork look effortless and essential." - Jenny Offill, author of Department of Speculation and Weather A luminous debut novel in the tradition of DeLillo and Egan, chronicling the eerily intersecting lives of a series of American dreamers whose unforeseen links reveal the divided heart of a haunted nation-and the battered grace that might lead to its salvation June 26, 1947. Headlines across America report the sighting of nine pulsating lights flying over the Cascade Mountains at speeds surpassing any aircraft. In Chicago, inspired by the news, Oliver Danville, a failed actor now reduced to a mediocre pool hustler, hitchhikes west in a fever-dream quest for a possible sign from above that might illuminate his true calling. A chance encounter with Saul Penrod, an Idaho farmer, and his family sets in motion the birth of "the Seekers"-a collective of outcasts, interlopers, and idealists devoted to creating a society where divisions of race, ethnicity, and sexuality are a thing of the past. When Claudette Donen, a waitress on the lam from her suffocating family, encounters the group, she is compulsively drawn to Oliver's sister Eileen, but before she is able to join the enigmatic community, it has vanished. Reunited across the country, the Seekers attempt to settle in the suburbs of Long Island. One night, their purpose suddenly revealed, a stranger emerges, and a horrific crime ensues. In the decades that follow, the perpetrators, survivors, and their children will be forced to face the consequences of what happened-a reckoning that will involve Charlie Ranagan, a traveling salesman; Max Felt, a dissolute late-1960s rock star; Alice Linwood, an increasingly paranoid radio host; Stanley West, a struggling African American poet; Marly Feldberg, a Greenwich Village painter; and Debbie Vasquez, a Connecticut teenager trapped by an avalanche of midnight legacies. Each will prove to be a piece of a puzzle that, when assembled, reveals a shocking truth about the clash between the optimism of those who seek inspiration from spacious skies, and the venom of others who relish the underworld-not only via conspiratorial maneuverings, but the literal unearthing of the dead. The result is one of the most exciting, and unforgettable, debut novels in recent memory, and the launch of a major career in American letters.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
006298439x
ISBN-13
9780062984395
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038301094
Product Key Features
Book Title
Nine Shiny Objects : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Political, Historical
Publication Year
2020
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Ps3603.A883n56 2020
Reviews
Castleberry has pulled off quite a feat. Nine Shiny Objects is an intricately plotted novel of big ideas that's driven by fully realized characters. I couldn't wait to turn the page, yet I wanted to linger in each chapter., Marked by literary ambition. ... This is a story about how our individual histories follow us, about light versus dark, but also about our clouded perception of America--and how it continues to divide us., "[Castleberry's] deft treatment of the past half-century of U.S. political and cultural history is by turns lively and absurd, violent and ecstatic, just as those times were. ... Suffused by mystery and melancholy, but also with occasional laugh-out-loud slapstick and "Twilight Zone" weirdness.", Sharply-tuned, funny, satisfyingly strange, and preternaturally poised, unspooling in immaculate prose. Brian Castleberry has that rare, can't-be-taught ability to turn smoothly at any point in any direction, giving each sentence, no matter how casual, a quiet current of electric suspense., A triumph. Author Brian Castleberry's ability to inhabit each character's mind, giving each distinct tics in their thought and speech patterns, makes their self-righteousness, confusion, guilt, and hope achingly legible. ... Hidden behind the facade of a book about UFOs is a novel about 20th century America, its flaws and its fears., Castleberry crafts a superlatively original tale that incorporates UFOs, government conspiracies, counterculture and hope in this delicately layered novel., "Caroming across the changing American social and cultural landscape through the Cold War decades, Brian Castleberry's ambitious, shining novel explores the morphing vision of "America" from nine deeply felt, intricately connected perspectives. A timely book about our ideals, hopes, disillusionments, and their shadowy consequences, Nine Shiny Objects is a significant, daring debut that speaks keenly to our current times.", Impressive... Memorable characters inhabit a surprising, engaging story of American idealism and its dark opposite.
Copyright Date
2020
Lccn
2019-044005
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Dewey Edition
23
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