Phillips, Jayne Anne Quiet Dell ISBN 13: 9781439172544

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"The truth of all of Phillips' characterizations is what lies behind this careful novel's compelling momentum."--Brad Hooper "Booklist "

"[Quiet Dell's] success is due to a bold decision: Ms. Phillips has written a serial killer novel in which the serial killer hardly appears....Unabashed...There is a glowing beauty to the book's brave, generous version of history."--Sam Sacks "The Wall Street Journal "

"Phillips's effort to do justice -- aesthetic and moral -- to the victims feels bold and honorable...moving, even transporting...Phillips allows her own ample gifts to soar."--Leah Hager Cohen "Boston Globe "

"Phillips, an acclaimed writer of largely contemporary fiction, this time draws on history: a criminal case from the early '30s....But if the factual underpinnings of this latest novel are unusual for Phillips, her ability to transform them into a fictionalized narrative place her at the top of her form. Phillips has carefully inserted imagined private moments and just a few fictional characters to create a story both splendid and irreparably sad... As Phillips has proved throughout her decades of fiction writing, there is evil in the world, but there are some who will stand in its way."--Celia McGee "Chicago Tribune "

"In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it."--Elissa Schappell "Vanity Fair "

"Hauntingly imagines the victims' hopes, dreams, and terror...Phillips blends fact and fiction in a darkly poetic way: The result is an absorbing novel that leaves us rooting for the heroine Emily becomes--and mourning the lives the Eichers never got to enjoy."--Arianna Davis "O, the Oprah Magazine "

"Gripping...Chilling...The novel's heartbeat is Emily, a Chicago Tribune reporter covering Powers' arrest and trial...Quiet Dell does what Emily can't, thoughtfully grafting a 21st-century sensibility onto 20th-century ghastliness. Emily resists the fetters placed on her as a journalist and a woman, while Eric, a gay photographer who accompanies her, is a keen observer of closeted life in the South. Phillips exposes the era's prejudices less to render judgment than to show how cannily people like Emily and Eric worked around them."--Mark Athitakis "Minneapolis Star Tribune "

"Jayne Anne Phillips is one of the finest pure stylists in contemporary literature, and she's found a story that sounds like a perfect match for her talents."--Jeff Baker "Portland Oregonian "

"In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial killer's crimes and capture, yes, but it's also a compulsively readable story of how one brave woman faces up to acts of terrible violence in order to create something good and strong in the aftermath. Quiet Dell will be compared to In Cold Blood, but Phillips offers something Capote could not: a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity."--Stephen King

"Sometimes eerie and dreamlike, others grippingly tense, yet warmly human, always written with beauty and emotional power, Quiet Dell is a virtuoso performance by a highly original writer."--Colette Bancroft "Tampa Bay Times "
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A spectacularly riveting novel based on a real life crime by a con man who preyed on widows: “a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year” (Stephen King)—“thinkIn Cold Blood meets The Lovely Bones—but sexy” (People).

In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, a lonely mother of three, is desperate for money after the sudden death of her husband. She begins to receive seductive letters from a chivalrous, elegant man named Harry Powers, who promises to cherish and protect her, ultimately to marry her and to care for her and her children. Weeks later, Asta and her three children are dead.

Emily Thornhill, one of the few women journalists in the Chicago press, wants to understand what happened to this beautiful family, particularly to the youngest child, Annabel, an enchanting girl with a precocious imagination and sense of magic. Determined, Emily travels to West Virginia to cover the murder trial and to investigate the story herself, accompanied by a charming and unconventional photographer equally drawn to the case. These heroic characters, driven by secrets of their own, will stop at nothing to ensure Powers is convicted.

A tragedy, a love story, and a tour de force of obsession, Jayne Anne Phillips’s Quiet Dell “hauntingly imagines the victims’ hopes, dreams, and terror” (O, The Oprah Magazine). It is a mesmerizing and deeply moving novel from one of America’s most celebrated writers.

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  • Erscheinungsdatum2014
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