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Set in the author's native Guadeloupe, this work features twisted lineages, lost birthrights, devastating family secrets, and the haunting spirits of the dead. Reprint.
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impossible to read her novels and not come away from them with both a sadder and more exhilarating understanding of the human heart."
- THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Rapidly shifting between Guadeloupe and Harlem, moving from Haiti's desperate slums to the exclusive enclaves of the Parisian upper class, this deeply personal tale traces one Guadeloupe family's rise from poverty to riches through several generations.
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Tree of Life
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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner AwardThis small novel works like a laser beam, penetrating the American experience with searing and concentrated intensity.--Los Angeles TimesThe Tree of Life is one of the most powerful, original, and disturbing books that I have read in a long time. Hugh Nissenson has caught the voice of the old-time diary keeper just exactly. It's uncanny, marvelous, so direct and deceptively simple that you know what pains he has taken.The book is a work of art and no one who reads it will ever forget it.--David McCulloughIt is a tale more moving and haunting than one thinks it can possibly be.--The Village VoiceThe year is 1811. Having suffered a loss of faith, Thomas Keene, Congregational minister from New England, abandons the East and moves to Richland County on the Ohio frontier. The Tree of Life is Keene's journal: stories and jottings appear alongside accounting entries and poems, coarse jokes and sermons, woodcuts and maps. In this Waste Book, Keene conveys his longing for a young widow, his fascination with John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed), and his resolve in the face of the growing enmity between his fellow settlers and the Delaware Indians. The Tree of Life reveals a man of intellect and passion as he confronts the raw country.The juxtaposition of horror and information perfectly captures the genius of this imagined diary.Scarcely a word is wasted. Hardly an aspect of the struggle to found a new civilization remains untouched. The Tree of Life dramatizes, sometimes with almost unbearable intensity, the American dream and its attendant nightmare.--Time Magazine The Tree of Life] confronts us where our deepest and most disturbing fantasies intersect with our sense of history.Given the richness of its texture and the strength of whichever of its threads one pursues, one can imagine that its force will grow and take an ever tighter grip on our understanding of the American past. It is a book that plants deep seeds.--New York TimesA beautifully paced book. it] allows the shocks and resonances to gather slowly, the way they do in life when you are taking everything in, but cannot yet allow yourself to admit how much you've been affected.In thrall to the powers Mr. Nissenson has invoked and wielded with such fearful symmetry--the powers of documentation and of vision--we can only read on.--Margo Jefferson, from her new IntroductionHugh Nissenson (1933-2013) was born in New York City. After graduating from Swarthmore College, he published his first short story in Harper's Magazine in 1958. He taught writing at Yale, Barnard, and Auburn Theological Seminary, and was the author of a memoir, three collections of short stories and journals, and many novels.Margo Jefferson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic. She has been a staff writer for The New York Times and Newsweek; her reviews and essays have appeared in New York Magazine, Grand Street, Vogue, Harper's and many other publications. Artikel-Nr. 00082492086
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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Reprint. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way. Artikel-Nr. 0345384695-7-1
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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Artikel-Nr. G0345384695I5N00
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Tree of Life : A Novel of the Caribbean
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Random House Publishing Group, 1993
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Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Artikel-Nr. 6253292-6
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TREE OF LIFE, a Novel of the Caribbean
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Zustand: GOOD. 1st trade paperback printing. Novel of several generations of a family from Guadeloupe - ranging from Panama to Harlem, from upper class Paris to the slums of Haiti. Translated by Victoria Reiter. Glossary. 371 pp. Good overall (some wear to the covers). Artikel-Nr. 41083
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Tree of Life Conde, Maryse
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Ballantine Books; Reprint Edition (August 31, 1993). Artikel-Nr. SDBOX1323-TM10262020-46
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