In Perfect Light - Softcover
Pub Date: 2008-11-25 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US From award-winning poet Benjamin Alire Saenz comes In Perfect Light. a haunting novel depicting the cruelties of cultural displacement and the resilience of those who are left in its aftermath. In Perfect Light is the story of two strong-willed people who are forever altered by a single tragedy. After Andes Segovias parents are killed in a car accident when he is still a young boy. his older brother decides to steal the family away .. to Juarez. Mexico That decision. made with the best intentions. sets into motion the unraveling of an American family Years later. his family destroyed. Andes is left to make sense of the chaos - but he is ill-equipped to make sense of his life. He begins a dark journey toward self-destruction. his talent and brilliance brought down by the weight of a burden too frigh...
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author:
Benjamin Alire Sáenz is the author of In Perfect Light, Carry Me Like Water, and House of Forgetting, as well as the author of several children's books. He won the American Book Award for his collection of poems Calendar of Dust. Sáenz is the chair of the creative writing department at the University of Texas-El Paso.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherHarper Perennial
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0060779217
- ISBN 13 9780060779214
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
- Rating
Buy New
Learn more about this copy
£ 5.36
Shipping:
£ 3.41
From Canada to U.S.A.
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
In Perfect Light
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Paperback. Publisher overstock, may contain remainder mark on edge. Seller Inventory # 9780060779214B
Buy New
£ 5.36
Convert currency
Seller Image
In Perfect Light: A Novel by Saenz, Benjamin Alire [Paperback ]
Published by
Harper Perennial
(2008)
ISBN 10: 0060779217
ISBN 13: 9780060779214
New
Soft Cover
Quantity: 10
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: new. Seller Inventory # 9780060779214
Buy New
£ 12.04
Convert currency
Seller Image
In Perfect Light
Published by
Harper Perennial
(2008)
ISBN 10: 0060779217
ISBN 13: 9780060779214
New
Softcover
Quantity: 5
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 4159415-n
Buy New
£ 10
Convert currency
Seller Image
In Perfect Light (Paperback or Softback)
Published by
Harper Perennial 11/1/2008
(2008)
ISBN 10: 0060779217
ISBN 13: 9780060779214
New
Paperback or Softback
Quantity: 5
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. In Perfect Light 0.65. Book. Seller Inventory # BBS-9780060779214
Buy New
£ 12.19
Convert currency
Stock Image
In Perfect Light Format: Paperback
Published by
Harper Collins Publishers
(2008)
ISBN 10: 0060779217
ISBN 13: 9780060779214
New
Softcover
Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Brand New. Seller Inventory # 0060779217
Buy New
£ 9.50
Convert currency
Stock Image
In Perfect Light: A Novel [Paperback] Sßenz, Benjamin Alire
Published by
Harper Perennial
(2008)
ISBN 10: 0060779217
ISBN 13: 9780060779214
New
Softcover
Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books!. Seller Inventory # OTF-S-9780060779214
Buy New
£ 10.04
Convert currency
Stock Image
In Perfect Light: A Novel
Published by
Harper Perennial
(2008)
ISBN 10: 0060779217
ISBN 13: 9780060779214
New
Softcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition. Seller Inventory # bk0060779217xvz189zvxnew
Buy New
£ 14.05
Convert currency
Stock Image
In Perfect Light: A Novel
Published by
Harper Perennial
(2008)
ISBN 10: 0060779217
ISBN 13: 9780060779214
New
Softcover
Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # ABLIING23Feb2215580002350
Buy New
£ 11.35
Convert currency
Seller Image
In Perfect Light (Paperback)
Published by
HarperCollins Publishers Inc, New York
(2008)
ISBN 10: 0060779217
ISBN 13: 9780060779214
New
Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Ben Saenz's vivid imagination captures all that is beautiful, agonizing and redemptive in the crossings we make through borders of geography and culture. But it is in the interior journeys of the psyche and the soul that we must find salvation; Saenz's brilliant prose penetrates to that core and he finds and exposes that truth. A reader can ask for no more than this: to be spellbound by a story, and to come to the last page with a sense of having been being changed and allowed to carry something of it away." --Abraham Verghese, author of My Own CountryFrom award-winning poet Benjamin Alire Saenz comes a haunting novel depicting the cruelties of cultural displacement and the resilience of those who are left in its aftermath.In Perfect Light is the story of two strong-willed people who are forever altered by a single tragedy. After Andes Segovia's parents are killed in a car accident when he is still a young boy, his older brother decides to steal the family away to Juarez, Mexico. That decision, made with the best intentions, sets into motion the unraveling of an American family.Years later, his family destroyed, Andes is left to make sense of the chaos--but he is ill-equipped to make sense of his life. He begins a dark journey toward self-destruction, his talent and brilliance brought down by the weight of a burden too frightening and maddening to bear alone. The manifestation of this frustration is a singular rage that finds an outlet in a dark and seedy El Paso bar--leading him improbably to Grace Delgado.Recently confronted with her own sense of isolation and mortality, Grace is an unlikely angel, a therapist who agrees to treat Andes after he is arrested in the United States. The two are suspicious of each other, yet they slowly arrive at a tentative working relationship that allows each of them to examine his and her own fragile and damaged past. With the urgent, unflinching vision of a true storyteller and the precise, arresting language of a poet, Saenz's In Perfect Light bears witness to the cruelty of circumstance and, more than offering escape, the novel offers the possibility of salvation. In "Perfect Light" is the story of two very strong-willed people, forever altered by a single tragedy, and their improbable ascent out of darkness After young Andres Segovia's parents die, his brother steals the family away to Mexico to avoid a painful separation. The decision, made with the best intentions, sets into motion the unraveling of an American family. Years later, unequipped to make sense of his life, Andres collapses under the weight of an emotional burden too frightening and maddening to bear alone. The manifestation of this is a singular rage that finds outlet in a dark and seedy bar, which leads him improbably to Grace. Grace is a therapist recently confronted with her own mortality. At first they encounter each other with closed hearts, but then they begin to find transformative peace in their exchanges. With Grace's help, Andres begins to face his pain--even as secrets surrounding the death of his parents threaten to strain their connection irreparably. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780060779214
Buy New
£ 15.88
Convert currency
Stock Image
In Perfect Light: A Novel
Published by
Harper Perennial
(2008)
ISBN 10: 0060779217
ISBN 13: 9780060779214
New
Softcover
Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # I-9780060779214
Buy New
£ 16.54
Convert currency