Автор: Wetmore Elizabeth Название: Valentine ISBN: 0062979345 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062979346 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 3827.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s.
Mercy is hard in a place like this . . .
It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town's men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow.
In the early hours of the morning after Valentine's Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ram rez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead's ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field--an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive, the stage is set for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences.
Valentine is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear, yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader's heart, this fierce, unflinching, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates women's strength and vulnerability, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us alive.
Автор: Wetmore, Elizabeth Название: Valentine ISBN: 0008331936 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008331931 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1715.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: With the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, and the atmospheric suspense of The Girls: a compulsive debut novel about that explores the aftershock of a brutal crime on the women of a small Texas oil town.
Автор: Wetmore, Elizabeth Название: Valentine ISBN: 0008331928 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008331924 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A top ten New York Times bestseller. With the haunting emotional power of American Dirt and the atmospheric suspense of Where the Crawdads Sing: a compulsive debut novel that explores the aftershock of a brutal crime on the women of a small Texas oil town.
Автор: Wetmore, Elizabeth Название: Valentine Intl ISBN: 0063037688 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780063037687 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 1672.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Wetmore Elizabeth Название: Valentine \ Amor Y Furia (Spanish Edition) ISBN: 0062999788 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062999788 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 1775.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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En un pueblo a trescientos kil metros de cualquier lugar, los destinos de un pu ado de personajes se entrelazan en una narraci n magistral de odio y miedo, pero tambi n de amor y de esperanza.
Es el d a de San Valent n del a o 1976 y el pueblo de Odessa, Texas, est en la c spide de un boom petrolero.
En medio del campo petrol fero, pocos minutos antes del amanecer, Glory Ram rez, de catorce a os, logra sacar fuerzas para escapar de su agresor. Atraviesa el campo entre alambres de p as, restos de tuber as rotas y matojos de mezquite hasta llegar a la puerta de Mary Rose Whitehead, cuya vida se ve irremediablemente trastocada no s lo por la crueldad de la que ha sido v ctima la ni a -bien podr a ser su hija- sino por los hechos subsecuentes, que se suman a los relatos de violencia e injusticia cotidianas que por generaciones han sufrido las mujeres de su pueblo.
M s all de describir el contexto hist rico de un pueblo sure o, Elizabeth Wetmore nos ofrece un potente debut literario que explora los l mites del ser humano. Una novela coral extraordinariamente escrita que nos lleva por las entra as de las mujeres que la protagonizan.
Nacida y criada en West Texas, Elizabeth Wetmore vive con su esposo y su hijo en Chicago. Amor y furia es su primera novela.
Автор: Wetmore, Elizabeth Название: Valentine ISBN: 0008331960 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008331962 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1187.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A top ten New York Times bestseller. With the haunting emotional power of American Dirt and the atmospheric suspense of Where the Crawdads Sing: a compulsive debut novel that explores the aftershock of a brutal crime on the women of a small Texas oil town. 'The very definition of a stunning debut' Ann Patchett 'Brilliant, sharp, tightly wound, and devastating' Elizabeth Gilbert 'Quite simply one of the best books I've ever read' Jeanine Cummins, author of American Dirt Mercy is hard in a place like this.
I wished him dead before I ever saw his face... In a place like Odessa, Texas choosing who to trust can be a dangerous game. Mary Rose Whitehead isn't looking for trouble - but when it shows up at her front door, she finds she can't turn away.
Corinne Shepherd, newly widowed, wants nothing more than to mind her own business, and for everyone else to mind theirs. But when the town she has spent years rebelling against closes ranks she realises she is going to have to take a side. Gloria Ramirez, fourteen years old and out of her depth, survives the brutality of one man only to face the indifference and prejudices of many.
When justice is as slippery as oil, and kindness becomes a hazardous act, sometimes courage is all we have to keep us alive.
