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3rd printing. 159pp. Finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE condition. "This is a novel about America in its youth. The story takes place in 1811-12 in a frontier settlement in Richland County, Ohio, and it is told by means of the diary kept by Thomas Keene--an educated New Englander tormented by his past. The heart of the narrative is Tom's love for Fanny, a young widow, and his obsession with John Chapman, the half-crazed mystic who became known as Johnny Appleseed. Tom is also bound to Lettiece Shipman, a freed black from Kentucky, in a sexual relationship that degrades them both. [] Tom and his companions are pioneers who learn to survive in the wilderness. They hunt, farm, bear children, and build a community. The drama of daily life is heightened when their Delaware neighbors go on the warpath against them, heeding Tecumseh's command to unify the Indian nations and exterminate whites. [] Tom is not only a terse, powerful diarist but also an artist, whose poems and paintings illuminate the text. His journals reveal every aspect of the American pioneering experience, and Tom's own spiritual journey. In the presence of violence and death, struggling with the dark aspects of sex, he saves himself through art and love. [] In this original and stirring novel, Hugh Nissenson integrates his poetry and painting with his prose to create a dynamic new form. Its immediacy brings Tom, Fanny, Johnny Appleseed--all the characters--directly into our lives, and we, in turn, are plunged into the heart of our American past." [jacket copy] "THE TREE OF LIFE is one of the most powerful, original, and disturbing books I have read in a long time. Hugh Nissenson has caught the voice of the old-time diary keeper just exactly. It's uncanny, marvelous, so direct and deceptively simple that you know what pains he has taken. The book is a work of art and no one who reads it will ever forget it. With a second reading, the impact is even stronger. It's like Picasso, often hard to take, but vivid and unforgettable in a way all its own."--David McCullough. "This small novel works like a laser beam, penetrating the American experience with searing and concentrated intensity."--Los Angeles Times. "It is a tale more moving and haunting than one thinks it can possibly be."--The Village Voice. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in an intact, handsome jacket featuring art by Thomas Keene (Nissenson). Quite presentable.…
Seller Inventory # RUB2896
- Title
- The Tree of Life
- Author
- Hugh Nissenson
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Publication year
- 1985
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0060151439
- ISBN 13
- 9780060151430
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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Review
Praise for Hugh Nissenson and "The Tree of Life"
"Finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award"
"This small novel works like a laser beam, penetrating the American experience with searing and concentrated intensity.""Los Angeles Times"
""The Tree of Life" is one of the most powerful, original, and disturbing books that I have read in a long time. Hugh Nissenson has caught the voice of the old-time diary keeper just exactly. It's uncanny, marvelous, so direct and deceptively simple that you know what pains he has taken.The book is a work of art and no one who reads it will ever forget it."David McCullough
"It is a tale more moving and haunting than one thinks it can possibly be.""The Village Voice"
"The juxtaposition of horror and information perfectly captures the genius of this imagined diaryScarcely a word is wasted. Hardly an aspect of the struggle to found a new civilization remains untouched."The Tree of Life"dramatizes, sometimes with almost unbearable intensity, the American dream and its attendant nightmare.""Time Magazine"
"["The Tree of Life"] confronts us where our deepest and most disturbing fantasies intersect with our sense of historyGiven the richness of its texture and the strength of whichever of its threads one pursues, one can imagine that its force will grow and take an ever tighter grip on our understanding of the American past. It is a book that plants deep seeds.""New York Times"
"A beautifully paced book[it] allows the shocks and resonances to gather slowly, the way they do in life when you are taking everything in, but cannot yet allow yourself to admit how much you've been affectedIn thrall to the powers Mr. Nissenson has invoked and wielded with such fearful symmetrythe powers of documentation and of visionwe can only read on."Margo Jefferson
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Praise for Hugh Nissenson and The Tree of Life
Finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award
"This small novel works like a laser beam, penetrating the American experience with searing and concentrated intensity."--Los Angeles Times
"The Tree of Life is one of the most powerful, original, and disturbing books that I have read in a long time. Hugh Nissenson has caught the voice of the old-time diary keeper just exactly. It's uncanny, marvelous, so direct and deceptively simple that you know what pains he has taken.The book is a work of art and no one who reads it will ever forget it."--David McCullough
"It is a tale more moving and haunting than one thinks it can possibly be."--The Village Voice
"The juxtaposition of horror and information perfectly captures the genius of this imagined diary...Scarcely a word is wasted. Hardly an aspect of the struggle to found a new civilization remains untouched. The Tree of Life dramatizes, sometimes with almost unbearable intensity, the American dream and its attendant nightmare."--Time Magazine
"[The Tree of Life] confronts us where our deepest and most disturbing fantasies intersect with our sense of history...Given the richness of its texture and the strength of whichever of its threads one pursues, one can imagine that its force will grow and take an ever tighter grip on our understanding of the American past. It is a book that plants deep seeds."--New York Times
"A beautifully paced book...[it] allows the shocks and resonances to gather slowly, the way they do in life when you are taking everything in, but cannot yet allow yourself to admit how much you've been affected...In thrall to the powers Mr. Nissenson has invoked and wielded with such fearful symmetry--the powers of documentation and of vision--we can only read on."--Margo Jefferson
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