Before You Know Kindness

Zusatztext " Before You Know Kindness may very well be his best. . . . Masterly . . . timely [and] well-wrought." – The Boston Globe   "An irresistible read. Moving from quiet domestic drama to legal thriller." – The Washington Post   "A dark psychological dance of family estrangements! lies and self-righteousness . . . plenty of finely wrought characters and thought-provoking personal and political drama." – The Seattle Times   "Extraordinary. . . . Bohjalian has had much success in the past! including a selection as an Oprah Book Club author. Before You Know Kindness is better than anything he's written before." – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Informationen zum Autor CHRIS BOHJALIAN is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-three books, including Hour of the Witch, The Red Lotus, Midwives, and The Flight Attendant, which has been made into an HBO Max limited series starring Kaley Cuoco. His other books include The Guest Room; Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands; The Sandcastle Girls; Skeletons at the Feast; and The Double Bind. His novels Secrets of Eden, Midwives, and Past the Bleachers were made into movies, and his work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. He is also a playwright ( Wingspan and Midwives ). He lives in Vermont and can be found at chrisbohjalian.com or on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Litsy, and Goodreads, @chrisbohjalian Klappentext From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant! here is a novel that examines wildly divisive American issues like gun control and animal rights with Chris Bohjalian's trademark emotional heft and spellbinding storytelling skill. For ten summers! the Seton family-all three generations-met at their country home in New England to spend a week together playing tennis! badminton! and golf! and savoring gin and tonics on the wraparound porch to celebrate the end of the season. In the eleventh summer! everything changed. A hunting rifle with a single cartridge left in the chamber wound up in exactly the wrong hands at exactly the wrong time! and led to a nightmarish accident that put to the test the values that unite the family-and the convictions that just may pull it apart. The sun was up over Washington, Lafayette, and the trio of nearby cannonball-shaped mountains that were called the Three Graces, and Nan Seton—elderly but far from frail—sat sipping her morning coffee on a chaise lounge on the Victorian house's wraparound porch. She noted how the sun was rising much later now than it had even two or three weeks ago: It was already the twenty-eighth or twenty-ninth of July (it disturbed her that she couldn't grab the precise date right now from the air), and her children would be arriving tomorrow. Friday. A golden retriever—old like her but not nearly so energetic—lolled near her feet on the outdoor rug. She had been on the porch close to half an hour and even the coffee in the stovetop percolator she had brought outside with her was cold, when she heard her granddaughters pound their way down the stairs. The older girl, Charlotte, was twelve; the younger one, Willow (a name that drove Grandmother crazy both for its absolute lack of any family resonance and its complete New Age inanity), was ten. The girls collapsed into the two wicker chairs near the outdoor table, opposite their grandmother and her chaise. She saw they both had sleep in their eyes and their hair wasn't brushed. They were still in their nightgowns, their feet were bare, and Charlotte was sitting in such a fashion—the sole of one foot wedged against her other leg's thigh—that her nightgown had bunched up near her waist and she was offering anyone who cared to see an altogether indelicate and (in Nan's opinion) appalling show of flesh. "Good morning," she said to ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Chris Bohjalian, Chris A. Bohjalian, Christopher A. Bohjalian
• Editore: Vintage USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 09.08.2005
• EAN: 9781400031658
• ISBN: 978-1-4000-3165-8
• Pagine: 448
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 202 mm x 21 mm
• Serie: Vintage Contemporaries; Vintage Contemporaries
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi