The Laments

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Críticas: A fine novel, about family, migration, identity and the struggle to find and hold onto it. It is also hugely entertaining and very, very funny. - Roddy Doyle In THE LAMENTS, George Hagen pulls off a splendid high-wire act, creating one of the most memorable and compelling families since the Flying Wallendas. His writing is luminous, humane, and wonderfully acerbic - as if Evelyn Waugh got a hold of John Irving's characters and handed them all Pimm s No. 1. Hilarious and heartbreaking, this is one of the best debut novels I've read in years. - Peter Blauner, author of THE INTRUDER and MAN OF T A vital international journey through the vicissitudes of family life. This story, centering on the timeless theme of a child swapped at birth, is immensely readable, funny, and touching --a complete joy. - Elizabeth Strout, author of AMY AND ISABELLE George Hagen's highly entertaining debut novel features an irresistibly headstrong family, a global sweep, and not only a sense of loss and displacement that's perfectly in tune with the world we live in but also a full measure of resilient humanity. - Gary Shteyngart, author of THE RUSSIAN DEBUTANTE'S Hagen's understanding of the mix of love, banality, humor, and sadness that are the features of family life is deep and nearly flawless: a lovely book. - Kirkus Reviews Having newborn twins has left me almost no time for reading

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Laments
Verlag: Hodder and Stoughton, London
Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
Einband: hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good
Signiert: Signed by Author
Auflage: First Edition/First Printing.
Art des Buches: Used