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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2005-09-01
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9780385337632
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385337639
ISBN-13
9780385337632
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2450431
Product Key Features
Book Title
Crow Lake : a Novel
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Sagas, Family Life, General, Literary
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-053779
Reviews
"A finely crafted debut ... conveys an astonishing intensity of emotion, almost Proustian in its sense of loss and regret."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review "The assurance with which Mary Lawson handles both reflection and violence makes her a writer to read and watch … has a resonance at once witty and poignant."-New York Times Book Review "Crow Lakeis the kind of book that keeps you reading well past midnight; you grieve when it's over. Then you start pressing it on friends."-Washington Post Book World "A touching meditation on the power of loyalty and loss, on the ways in which we pay our debts and settle old scores, and on what it means to love, to accept, to succeed-and to negotiate fate's obstacle courses."-People "Lawson's tight focus on the emotional and moral effects of a drastic turn of events on a small human group has its closest contemporary analogue in the novels of Ian McEwan."-Toronto Star, "A finely crafted debut ... conveys an astonishing intensity of emotion, almost Proustian in its sense of loss and regret."- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "The assurance with which Mary Lawson handles both reflection and violence makes her a writer to read and watch … has a resonance at once witty and poignant."- New York Times Book Review " Crow Lake is the kind of book that keeps you reading well past midnight; you grieve when it's over. Then you start pressing it on friends."- Washington Post Book World "A touching meditation on the power of loyalty and loss, on the ways in which we pay our debts and settle old scores, and on what it means to love, to accept, to succeed-and to negotiate fate's obstacle courses."- People "Lawson's tight focus on the emotional and moral effects of a drastic turn of events on a small human group has its closest contemporary analogue in the novels of Ian McEwan."- Toronto Star, "A finely crafted debut ... conveys an astonishing intensity of emotion, almost Proustian in its sense of loss and regret."-- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "The assurance with which Mary Lawson handles both reflection and violence makes her a writer to read and watch ... has a resonance at once witty and poignant."-- New York Times Book Review " Crow Lake is the kind of book that keeps you reading well past midnight; you grieve when it's over. Then you start pressing it on friends."-- Washington Post Book World "A touching meditation on the power of loyalty and loss, on the ways in which we pay our debts and settle old scores, and on what it means to love, to accept, to succeed--and to negotiate fate's obstacle courses."-- People "Lawson's tight focus on the emotional and moral effects of a drastic turn of events on a small human group has its closest contemporary analogue in the novels of Ian McEwan."-- Toronto Star, "A finely crafted debut ... conveys an astonishing intensity of emotion, almost Proustian in its sense of loss and regret." --Kirkus Reviews (Starred review) "The assurance with which Mary Lawson handles both reflection and violence makes her a writer to read and watch … has a resonance at once witty and poignant." -The New York Times Book Review "Crow Lakeis the kind of book that keeps you reading well past midnight; you grieve when it's over. Then you start pressing it on friends." -The Washington Post Book World "A touching meditation on the power of loyalty and loss, on the ways in which we pay our debts and settle old scores, and on what it means to love, to accept, to succeed-and to negotiate fate's obstacle courses." -People "Lawson's tight focus on the emotional and moral effects of a drastic turn of events on a small human group has its closest contemporary analogue in the novels of Ian McEwan." -The Toronto Star
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thing--a literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author of immense talent. Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural "badlands" of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible events occur--offstage. Centerstage are the Morrisons, whose tragedy looks more immediate if less brutal, but is, in reality, insidious and divisive. Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older brother Matt's protegee, her fascination for pond life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist, she can identify organisms under a microscope but seems blind to the state of her own emotional life. And she thinks she's outgrown her siblings--Luke, Matt, and Bo--who were once her entire world. In this universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harbored and driven underground, Lawson ratchets up the tension with heartbreaking humor and consummate control, continually overturning one's expectations right to the very end. Tragic, funny, unforgettable, Crow Lake is a quiet tour de force that will catapult Mary Lawson to the forefront of fiction writers today.
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