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- 9780544090026
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0544090020
ISBN-13
9780544090026
eBay Product ID (ePID)
177800718
Product Key Features
Book Title
Skylight
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
General, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-034511
Reviews
"The gifted young Saramago makes these characters click together in a way that's extremely sympathetic...It's unfortunate that early in his career the writer couldn't enjoy the praise this book now calls forth. This book, once lost, now found." --Alan Cheuse, NPR's All Things Considered "An astute, sensitive character study of the family...The prose is beautifully crafted; sentences beg to be savored and reread. In ''Skylight'' readers will see the beginnings of Saramago''s experimental, avant-gardist style...Whether you read this novel as an exercise in literary archaeology of one of European literature's best contemporary writers, or as an introduction to the author, you will be gifted with a masterfully wrought contemplation -- a skylight's ray of light -- on some of the most pressing issues of life." -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Skylight is a masterwork of characterization, place and point of view...It was only a matter of time before a work of such extraordinary honesty and perception would make its way into the world." - San Francisco Chronicle "It is a work about the strictures of poverty and domesticity but also about momentary glimpses of beauty and fulfillment, and as such, it is immediately recognizable as Saramago, even though his political emphases, and his syntax, would evolve over the years. It will be bittersweet delight for Saramago fans, as this selection may well be his final published work." -- Booklist , starred review "Saramago''s novel is a delightful creation of characters with universal appeal. Readers will want to explore his other works after reading this gem." -- Library Journal , starred review "The novel spins a series of frank, honest stories that strike deep. This translation offers fans the opportunity to read the pages that helped shape a master." -- Publishers Weekly "Rarely has a novel with a publication delayed as long as this one's proven such a pleasure...an early sign of considerable promise and spirited storytelling." -- Kirkus "A must-read for Saramago lovers, with insights into his later themes and characters. And it''s a complete delight. Reading this energetic and wry portrait of the inhabitants of one Lisbon apartment building in the mid-20th Century, with their intrigues, secrets and fantasies, is like watching a classic black-and-white movie."--BBC Culture " Skylight is an artful depiction of the every day, and the unknown interiors of the people with whom we live...It''s fascinating to see the germ of his theories about love and how people should, above all, be decent to one another here in their earliest forms...Saramago fans can discover Skylight like an entryway to the past." --Bustle "Fluid and imaginative...[ Skylight ] is a masterly creation: pessimistic without being bleak, lyrical without being sentimental...Brilliantly structured, the novel contains moments of extraordinary poignancy...[Saramago] shows humanity at its most anxious, its most vulnerable and most true." -- The Independent (UK) "Not only does [ Skylight ] illuminate the slow development of a radically original artist, but it is an interesting novel in its own right...The explicit sexuality of the book (which may have kept it from being considered for publication in Salazar's Portugal in 1953) is remarkable now only because it is so compassionate...Moving from character to character, the loosely plotted story includes a good deal of mean-spirited evildoing, quite in the tradition of Balzac and the naturalists. It also includes dry humour, and at least one tranquil domestic scene revealed suddenly as almost visionary." -- The Guardian (UK) "Compelling...[ Skylight ] is shot through with more than enough flashes of brilliance to justify it seeing the light of day." -- The National (UAE) , "It is a work about the strictures of poverty and domesticity but also about momentary glimpses of beauty and fulfillment, and as such, it is immediately recognizable as Saramago, even though his political emphases, and his syntax, would evolve over the years. It will be bittersweet delight for Saramago fans, as this selection may well be his final published work." -- Booklist , starred review "Saramago's novel is a delightful creation of characters with universal appeal. Readers will want to explore his other works after reading this gem." -- Library Journal , starred review "The novel spins a series of frank, honest stories that strike deep. This translation offers fans the opportunity to read the pages that helped shape a master." -- Publishers Weekly "Rarely has a novel with a publication delayed as long as this one's proven such a pleasure...an early sign of considerable promise and spirited storytelling." -- Kirkus "Fluid and imaginative...[ Skylight ] is a masterly creation: pessimistic without being bleak, lyrical without being sentimental...Brilliantly structured, the novel contains moments of extraordinary poignancy...[Saramago] shows humanity at its most anxious, its most vulnerable and most true." -- The Independent (UK) "Not only does [ Skylight ] illuminate the slow development of a radically original artist, but it is an interesting novel in its own right...The explicit sexuality of the book (which may have kept it from being considered for publication in Salazar's Portugal in 1953) is remarkable now only because it is so compassionate...Moving from character to character, the loosely plotted story includes a good deal of mean-spirited evildoing, quite in the tradition of Balzac and the naturalists. It also includes dry humour, and at least one tranquil domestic scene revealed suddenly as almost visionary." -- The Guardian (UK) "Compelling...[ Skylight ] is shot through with more than enough flashes of brilliance to justify it seeing the light of day." -- The National (UAE) , "Rarely has a novel with a publication delayed as long as this one's proven such a pleasure...an early sign of considerable promise and spirited storytelling." -- Kirkus "Fluid and imaginative...[ Skylight ] is a masterly creation: pessimistic without being bleak, lyrical without being sentimental...Brilliantly structured, the novel contains moments of extraordinary poignancy...[Saramago] shows humanity at its most anxious, its most vulnerable and most true." -- The Independent (UK) "Not only does [ Skylight ] illuminate the slow development of a radically original artist, but it is an interesting novel in its own right...The explicit sexuality of the book (which may have kept it from being considered for publication in Salazar's Portugal in 1953) is remarkable now only because it is so compassionate...Moving from character to character, the loosely plotted story includes a good deal of mean-spirited evildoing, quite in the tradition of Balzac and the naturalists. It also includes dry humour, and at least one tranquil domestic scene revealed suddenly as almost visionary." -- The Guardian (UK) "Compelling...[ Skylight ] is shot through with more than enough flashes of brilliance to justify it seeing the light of day." -- The National (UAE) , "Fluid and imaginative...[ Skylight ] is a masterly creation: pessimistic without being bleak, lyrical without being sentimental...Brilliantly structured, the novel contains moments of extraordinary poignancy...[Saramago] shows humanity at its most anxious, its most vulnerable and most true." -- The Independent (UK) "Not only does [ Skylight ] illuminate the slow development of a radically original artist, but it is an interesting novel in its own right...The explicit sexuality of the book (which may have kept it from being considered for publication in Salazar's Portugal in 1953) is remarkable now only because it is so compassionate...Moving from character to character, the loosely plotted story includes a good deal of mean-spirited evildoing, quite in the tradition of Balzac and the naturalists. It also includes dry humour, and at least one tranquil domestic scene revealed suddenly as almost visionary." -- The Guardian (UK) "Compelling...[ Skylight ] is shot through with more than enough flashes of brilliance to justify it seeing the light of day." -- The National (UAE) , "Skylight is a masterwork of characterization, place and point of view...It was only a matter of time before a work of such extraordinary honesty and perception would make its way into the world." - San Francisco Chronicle "It is a work about the strictures of poverty and domesticity but also about momentary glimpses of beauty and fulfillment, and as such, it is immediately recognizable as Saramago, even though his political emphases, and his syntax, would evolve over the years. It will be bittersweet delight for Saramago fans, as this selection may well be his final published work." -- Booklist , starred review "Saramago's novel is a delightful creation of characters with universal appeal. Readers will want to explore his other works after reading this gem." -- Library Journal , starred review "The novel spins a series of frank, honest stories that strike deep. This translation offers fans the opportunity to read the pages that helped shape a master." -- Publishers Weekly "Rarely has a novel with a publication delayed as long as this one's proven such a pleasure...an early sign of considerable promise and spirited storytelling." -- Kirkus "A must-read for Saramago lovers, with insights into his later themes and characters. And it's a complete delight. Reading this energetic and wry portrait of the inhabitants of one Lisbon apartment building in the mid-20th Century, with their intrigues, secrets and fantasies, is like watching a classic black-and-white movie."--BBC Culture " Skylight is an artful depiction of the every day, and the unknown interiors of the people with whom we live...It's fascinating to see the germ of his theories about love and how people should, above all, be decent to one another here in their earliest forms...Saramago fans can discover Skylight like an entryway to the past." --Bustle "Fluid and imaginative...[ Skylight ] is a masterly creation: pessimistic without being bleak, lyrical without being sentimental...Brilliantly structured, the novel contains moments of extraordinary poignancy...[Saramago] shows humanity at its most anxious, its most vulnerable and most true." -- The Independent (UK) "Not only does [ Skylight ] illuminate the slow development of a radically original artist, but it is an interesting novel in its own right...The explicit sexuality of the book (which may have kept it from being considered for publication in Salazar's Portugal in 1953) is remarkable now only because it is so compassionate...Moving from character to character, the loosely plotted story includes a good deal of mean-spirited evildoing, quite in the tradition of Balzac and the naturalists. It also includes dry humour, and at least one tranquil domestic scene revealed suddenly as almost visionary." -- The Guardian (UK) "Compelling...[ Skylight ] is shot through with more than enough flashes of brilliance to justify it seeing the light of day." -- The National (UAE) , "Saramago's novel is a delightful creation of characters with universal appeal. Readers will want to explore his other works after reading this gem." -- Library Journal , starred review "The novel spins a series of frank, honest stories that strike deep. This translation offers fans the opportunity to read the pages that helped shape a master." -- Publishers Weekly "Rarely has a novel with a publication delayed as long as this one's proven such a pleasure...an early sign of considerable promise and spirited storytelling." -- Kirkus "Fluid and imaginative...[ Skylight ] is a masterly creation: pessimistic without being bleak, lyrical without being sentimental...Brilliantly structured, the novel contains moments of extraordinary poignancy...[Saramago] shows humanity at its most anxious, its most vulnerable and most true." -- The Independent (UK) "Not only does [ Skylight ] illuminate the slow development of a radically original artist, but it is an interesting novel in its own right...The explicit sexuality of the book (which may have kept it from being considered for publication in Salazar's Portugal in 1953) is remarkable now only because it is so compassionate...Moving from character to character, the loosely plotted story includes a good deal of mean-spirited evildoing, quite in the tradition of Balzac and the naturalists. It also includes dry humour, and at least one tranquil domestic scene revealed suddenly as almost visionary." -- The Guardian (UK) "Compelling...[ Skylight ] is shot through with more than enough flashes of brilliance to justify it seeing the light of day." -- The National (UAE)
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
869.3/42
Synopsis
Published for the very first time, an early novel by Nobel Laureate and literary master José Saramago that tells the intertwined stories of the residents of a faded Lisbon apartment building in the late 1940s., A previously unpublished novel by a literary master, Skylight tells the intertwined stories of the residents of a faded apartment building in 1940s Lisbon. Silvestre and Mariana, a happily married elderly couple, take in a young nomad, Abel, and soon discover their many differences. Adriana loves Beethoven more than any man, but her budding sexuality brings new feelings to the surface. Carmen left Galicia to marry humble Emilio, but hates Lisbon and longs for her first love, Manolo. Lidia used to work the streets, but now she's kept by Paulo, a wealthy man with a wandering eye. These are just some of the characters in this early work, completed by Saramago in 1953 but never published until now. With his characteristic compassion, depth, and wit, Saramago shows us the quiet contentment of a happy family and the infectious poison of an unhappy one. We see his characters' most intimate moments as well as the casual encounters particular to neighbors living in close proximity. Skylight is a portrait of ordinary people, painted by a master of the quotidian, a great observer of the immense beauty and profound hardships of the modern world.
LC Classification Number
PQ9281.A66C5313 2014
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