Echo House

Informationen zum Autor WARD JUST (1935-2019) was the author of nineteen novels, including  Exiles in the Garden, Forgetfulness, the National Book Award finalist Echo House, A Dangerous Friend, winner of the Cooper Prize for fiction from the Society of American Historians, and An Unfinished Season, winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award and a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. Klappentext A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD "Will be read in a century's time be anyone seeking to understand how we lived."-Detroit Free Press"A master American novelist." -Vanity Fair An epic chronicle of three generations of Washington power brokers and the women who loved them (except when they didn't), Echo House is Ward Just's masterpiece. The Washington Post described it as "a fascinating if ultimately painful fairy tale, complete with a family curse. The decline of the Behls represents the decline of Washington from the bright dawn of the American century into the gathering shadows of an alien new millennium."

Product details

• Authors: Ward Just, Ward S. Just
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.1997
• EAN: 9780395901380
• ISBN: 978-0-395-90138-0
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Fairytales, sagas, legends; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Thrillers / Historical, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Political, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Historical / Medieval, FICTION: Sagas, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Political, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors