Day for Night

Reiken, Frederick

ISBN 10: 1400117496 ISBN 13: 9781400117499

Publisher: Tantor Media Inc, 2010

Synopsis

Day for Night The prizewinning author of The Odd Sea and The Lost Legends of New Jersey offers this dazzling and moving novel about a family's mysterious past. Full description

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Review:

** 'From the dazzling opening chapter of Day For Night, Frederick Reiken makes clear that the stakes for his characters, and for his readers, are nothing less than everything. Here is a world, our world, in which no-one gets to escape the net of history and no-one, finally, gets to deny their human connections. I held my breath while I watched Reiken assemble his own extraordinary minyan (Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street)

** 'Compelling, ambitiously structured novel . . . The links between these tales are complex, and often deliberately elusive. Reiken moves through his cast of narrators with such control that the very sense of ever-multiplying connections lurking just out (Robert Collins, Sunday Times)

** 'A novel with a sprawling scope, using the first-person narrative of 10 seemingly disconnected characters on the lasting impact of the Holocaust, really ought not to work, or even be coherent. But this one does, and the result is a dazzling tour de force (Catherine Taylor, Sunday Telegraph)

** '[Frederick Reiken] seems set to become a literary star rather than merely a cult author ... This is a novel of considerable ambition. Reiken skilfully marshals a cast of complex characters across a variety of locations ... Reiken is a soulful writer as we (Henry Hitchins, Financial Times)

Book Description:

* Literary fiction at its finest, DAY FOR NIGHT dazzles at it explores a family's mysterious past

About this edition

• Publisher: Tantor Media Inc
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1400117496
• ISBN 13: 9781400117499
• Binding: Audio CD