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Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth McCracken is the award-winning author of eight books including The Giant's House (a National Book Award finalist), Thunderstruck & Other Stories (winner of the 2014 Story Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award), and The Hero of This Book (winner of the Wingate Prize). She has received grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and she was chosen as one of Granta 's twenty best American writers under forty. She has served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and taught at the University of Texas at Austin. Klappentext The author of National Book Award-finalist "The Giant's House" weaves an epic family saga set against the backdrop of twentieth America. An enigmatic woman shows up in a Massachusetts town with a bowling ball, a candlepin and fifteen pounds of gold, from these inauspicious beginnings becoming the town's most notable resident. Zusammenfassung ‘A big, glorious novel in every sense, this sprawling family saga…is a funny and big-hearted epic from a seriously gifted wordsmith’ Marie Claire Read the sweeping and enchanting new novel from the author of The Giant’s House Bertha is an enigma to everyone in Salford, Massachusetts – ever since she was discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery with nothing but a bowling ball, a candlepin and fifteen pounds of gold on her person. She has no past to speak of, and her mysterious origin scandalises the townspeople, as does her choice to marry and start a family with Leviticus Sprague, the doctor who revived her. But Bertha is plucky and entrepreneurial, and the bowling alley she opens quickly becomes Salford’s most defining landmark. As she changes the town forever, her singular spirit resonating through every board and brick and bone, an epic family saga unfolds, set against the backdrop of twentieth-century America. ...
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McCracken is a firecracker stylist and every sentence, every image, is crafted for physical impact... It is exuberant, a bit bonkers and raw and unflinching. It will find a great many fans - and no doubt some awards, too. Lucy Atkins Sunday Times
