Gob's Grief - Hardcover

Adrian, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0767902815 ISBN 13: 9780767902816

Publisher: Broadway Books, 2001

Synopsis

Years after his young brother, Tomo, is killed during the Civil War, a grieving Gob Woodhull, the son of nineteenth-century feminist Victoria Woodhull, now studying to become a doctor, concocts a scheme to build a machine that can restore all the war dead to life. A first novel.

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Review:

'Adrian's portrait of a nation gone mad with grief is splendid, ambitious and often heartbreaking' --The Times

'There are passages throughout Gob's Grief of shocking power... Weird vignette follows bravura passage follows profound musing, in what amounts not so much to a novel as a sheer outpouring of writing, an overflow of history, fantasy and fiction' --Guardian

'In this ingeniously yet also delicately constructed tale of loved ones, but especially brothers, killed in warm, Adrian brings together the fictional Gob Woodhull with real-life figures like Walk Whitman. Vast yet intimate at the same time' --Sunday Herald

'Adrian's portrait of a nation gone mad with grief is splendid, ambitious and often heartbreaking' --The Times

'In this ingeniously yet also delicately constructed tale of loved ones, but especially brothers, killed in warm, Adrian brings together the fictional Gob Woodhull with real-life figures like Walk Whitman. Vast yet intimate at the same time' --Sunday Herald

'The narrative moves quickly and energetically, while Chris Adrian's measured descriptions allow the reader's imagination to piece together vivid and often surreal images. Through the course of the novel, the characters emerge as embodiments of our most powerful emotions - fear, grief, courage and love' --Times Literary Supplement

'In this ingeniously yet also delicately constructed tale of loved ones, but especially brothers, killed in warm, Adrian brings together the fictional Gob Woodhull with real-life figures like Walk Whitman. Vast yet intimate at the same time' --Sunday Herald

About the Author:

Chris Adrian was born in Washington, D.C. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is currently a medical student in Virginia. Part of this novel first appeared in The New Yorker under the title “Every Night for a Thousand Years” and was subsequently collected in Best American Short Stories 1998. His fiction has also appeared in The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, and Story.

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadway Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0767902815
• ISBN 13: 9780767902816
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 355