The Reason You're Alive

Matthew Quick

ISBN 10: 1538419130 / ISBN 13: 9781538419137

Published by HARPERAUDIO, 2017

About this Item

Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

Seller Inventory # 28437142/1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Reason You're Alive
• Publisher: HARPERAUDIO
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1538419130
• ISBN 13: 9781538419137
• Condition: Hervorragend
• Seller catalogs:
  • Bücher

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Synopsis

Surviving a brain tumor linked to a wartime chemical exposure, David resolves to return a stolen object to a former Native American soldier from his past as part of an effort to find closure and recover from his wife's untimely death. By the award-winning author of The Silver Linings Playbook. Simultaneous.

Review

"The author of The Silver Linings Playbook delivers another engaging and screen-ready dramedy about an irascible misfit on a mission for closure."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"The role of David Granger may someday be played by an Oscar-hungry actor. But that shouldn't distract from the vivid, high-definition protagonist that already glows from the page.... That candor and honesty gives this first-person narrative its potency. It also supplies the humor."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"The Reason You're Alive is fundamentally about the power to forgive both yourself and others.... Quick forces both readers and characters to reexamine their first impressions through his narrator.... In classic Quick fashion, the novel is full of intriguing supporting characters."--AV Club

"Dark, funny, and surprisingly tender."--Publishers Weekly

"A scorching family drama. The Reason You're Alive is narrated with ire and eloquence by David Granger... It's as if Holden Caulfield grew up to be a reflective, even soulful, Archie Bunker.... A touching, old-fashioned drama about the ties that sometimes choke, but always bind."--BookPage

"Surprising.... At the core of the novel is the voice of David Granger, a combination of Archie Bunker and Marlow of Conrad's Heart of Darkness.... A valuable addition to fiction about the tangled aftereffects of Vietnam on soldiers in the field."--Kirkus

"A book of unexpected turns, a fun and funny narrative intermixed with many dark plot lines, The Reason You're Alive is a poignant work and a must-read this summer."--New York Journal of Books

"This new novel from the author of Silver Linings Playbook spotlights an unlikely hero, and a father-son relationship, with wry warmth and humor."--National Book Review

"Poignant and uproarious.... A novel that thrums with energy.... A vibrant and compassionate tale of a complex man finding his way in a divided America."--Minneapolis StarTribune

"Touching and often laugh-out-loud funny."--Asheville Citizen-Times