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The lives of three women on turn-of-the-20th-century San Miguel are shaped by ambition and circumstance, including the wife of a Civil War veteran who hopes to recover her health, her rebellious aspiring actress daughter and a librarian who wonders if the island's peace will endure in the face of looming war. (historical fiction). Simultaneous.
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Boyle is a writer who chooses a large canvas and fills it to the edges (Barbara Kingsolver)
An involving historical read and yet another illustration of this author's astonishing range. There seems to be no subject or genre that Boyle won't tackle with brio (Lionel Shriver Guardian, Books of the Year)
Boyle tells an extraordinary story of human weakness and survival, with high intelligence and a terrific eye for detail (Kate Saunders The Times)
Though I generally shy from flap-copy hyperbole of this sort, T. C. Boyle is by far and away one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today ... Most of all, he is a mesmerising storyteller, which is magnificently on display in his latest, San Miguel ... a dense, lushly detailed novel .... marking the exceptionally fine lines in San Miguel would have entailed underscoring the entire text ... this isn't a review, really. It's a love letter (Lionel Shriver Financial Times)
A history novel of almost heroic restraint, its prose remains resolutely unflashy, and its tone is sympathetic to the point of genuine warmth ... a touching, even gripping allegory of the doomed nature of human striving (James Walton Spectator)
A bareback ride into the abyss (Tom Cox Observer)
His evocations of landscape are vivid and he can dream up a cast of characters (Belinda McKeon Guardian)
[A] fine new novel ... He is [...] masterful at presenting this enclosed world, and he examines the debilitating effects of isolation on men and women (Philip Womack Daily Telegraph)
It's extraordinarily direct, sympathetic and pretty, with Boyle's characteristic aliveness to the past and its telling little details (Todd McEwen Glasgow Sunday Herald)
Mesmerising and elegiac ... Boyle skilfully captures that tension-filled quietude in the pared-down, mundane details of cleaning, cooking, caring for livestock and enduring the tedium of unchanging days (Scotsman)
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An involving historical read and yet another illustration of this author's astonishing range. There seems to be no subject or genre that Boyle won't tackle with brio (Lionel Shriver Guardian, Books of the Year)
Boyle tells an extraordinary story of human weakness and survival, with high intelligence and a terrific eye for detail (Kate Saunders The Times)
Though I generally shy from flap-copy hyperbole of this sort, T. C. Boyle is by far and away one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today ... Most of all, he is a mesmerising storyteller, which is magnificently on display in his latest, San Miguel ... a dense, lushly detailed novel .... marking the exceptionally fine lines in San Miguel would have entailed underscoring the entire text ... this isn't a review, really. It's a love letter (Lionel Shriver Financial Times)
A history novel of almost heroic restraint, its prose remains resolutely unflashy, and its tone is sympathetic to the point of genuine warmth ... a touching, even gripping allegory of the doomed nature of human striving (James Walton Spectator)
A bareback ride into the abyss (Tom Cox Observer)
His evocations of landscape are vivid and he can dream up a cast of characters (Belinda McKeon Guardian)
[A] fine new novel ... He is [...] masterful at presenting this enclosed world, and he examines the debilitating effects of isolation on men and women (Philip Womack Daily Telegraph)
It's extraordinarily direct, sympathetic and pretty, with Boyle's characteristic aliveness to the past and its telling little details (Todd McEwen Glasgow Sunday Herald)
Mesmerising and elegiac ... Boyle skilfully captures that tension-filled quietude in the pared-down, mundane details of cleaning, cooking, caring for livestock and enduring the tedium of unchanging days (Scotsman)
The biggest novel yet from the master of American fiction, the New York Times bestselling author of The Women, T.C. Boyle. A New York Times Notable Book 2012.
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1410451143
- ISBN 13 9781410451149
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages663
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