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Laddar... The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter: A Novelav Kia Corthron
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This is an amazing book -- it gets a bit long, but please stick it out, it's so worth it!!!! Ms. Corthron is a powerhouse of a writer.... ( ) This was one of the most powerful reading experiences of my life, and I've done a lot of reading in my life. It's a doorstop of a novel, and it may not be for everyone. But. Are you an American human, or merely a human, with a heart and an interest in the last century or so of life in human society? Do you enjoy a good novel, about family and brotherhood and race and belonging and so many other aspects of real life? If so, I urge you to read about this one on LibraryThing and elsewhere online, and if it seems like it might be for you, it probably is. Walk, don't run, to get a copy and start reading and be moved and delighted and cry and be uplifted and cry some more and be uplifted some more. (Why this novel hasn't gotten more attention, and more literary awards, is a puzzle I don't want to solve, because I hope mere sexism and racism doesn't explain it.) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"The hotly anticipated first novel by lauded playwright and The Wire TV writer Kia Corthron, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter sweeps American history from 1941 to the twenty-first century through the lives of four men, two white brothers from rural Alabama, and two black brothers from small-town Maryland, whose journey culminates in an explosive and devastating encounter between the two families. On the eve of America's entry into World War II, in a tiny Alabama town, two brothers come of age in the shadow of the local chapter of the Klan, where Randall a brilliant eighth-grader and the son of a sawmill worker begins teaching sign language to his eighteen-year-old deaf and uneducated brother B.J. Simultaneously, in small-town Maryland, the sons of a Pullman Porter, gifted six-year-old Eliot and his artistic twelve-year-old brother Dwight, grow up navigating a world expanded both by a visit from civil and labor rights activist A. Philip Randolph and by the legacy of a lynched great-aunt. The four mature into men, directly confronting the fierce resistance to the early civil rights movement, and are all ultimately uprooted. Corthron's ear for dialogue, honed from years of theater work, brings to life all the major concerns and movements of America's past century through the organic growth of her marginalized characters, and embraces a quiet beauty in their everyday existences. Sharing a cultural and literary heritage with the work of Toni Morrison, Alex Haley, and Edward P. Jones, Kia Corthron's The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter is a monumental epic deftly bridging the political and the poetic, and wrought by one of America's most recently recognized treasures."-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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