The Lacuna CD: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (918 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060853565 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 16 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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In The Lacuna, her first novel in nine years, Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds—an unforgettable protagonist whose search for identity will take readers to the heart of the twentieth century’s most tumultuous events.
Ambitious, Just Short of Great J. Jamakaya “The Lacuna” follows the life of Harrison Shepherd, the son of a Mexican mother and American father as he tries to find his place in the world. Raised mostly in Mexico, his young friends there consider him a “gringo.” Sent to school in the states, American kids consider him Mexican. The book is a wonde. A Writer's Power to Help Us See Barbara Kingslover's ability to take the voices of witnesses to history is remarkable. In The Lacuna, she takes the voice of the assistant to a character, Harrison Shepherd, who is himself the assistant, typist, cook, and witness to some giants of the Twentieth century as well as observer and victim of the greatness and shall. Three Stars Urenna In 1929, when Harrison William (Will) Shepherd was nine-years-old, his mother, Salomé, left her estranged husband, Will’s father, in Virginia, and moved to Isla Pixol, Mexico, with her lover, oil man, Enrique, hoping she’d be the bride of a wealthy man, with promises to her son he’d be a young ‘
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Kingsolver's ambitious new novel, her first in nine years (after the The Poisonwood Bible), focuses on Harrison William Shepherd, the product of a divorced American father and a Mexican mother. After getting kicked out of his American military academy, Harrison spends his formative years in Mexico in the 1930s in the household of Diego Rivera; his wife, Frida Kahlo; and their houseguest, Leon Trotsky, who is hiding from Soviet assassins. After Trotsky is assassinated, Harrison returns to the U.S., settling down in Asheville, N.C., where he becomes an author of historical potboilers (e.g., Vassals of Majesty) and is later investigated as a possible subversive. (Nov.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . Emplo