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Jean Thompson - The Year We Left Home (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
The New York Times bestseller.
The Year We Left Home is National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson's mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga of one ordinary American family that captures the turbulent history of the country at large.
Named a New York Times Editors' Choice, a People magazine "Pick of the Week," and an Indie Next and Midwest Connections selection, The Year We Left Home is the career-defining novel that Jean Thompson's admirers have been waiting for: a sweeping and emotionally powerful story of a single American family during the tumultuous final decades of the twentieth century.
Stretching from the early 1970's in the Iowa farmlands to suburban Chicago and across the map of contemporary America, The Year We Left Home follows the Erickson siblings as they confront prosperity and heartbreak, setbacks and triumphs, and seek their place in a country whose only constant seems to be breath-taking change.
Ambitious and richly told, this is a vivid and moving meditation on our continual pursuit of happiness and an incisive exploration of the national character.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Very Good
- Category : Fiction - Families & Sagas
- Published : 2011 (This Edition 2012 - Simon & Schuster USA - 1st Trade Paperback Edition)
- ISBN : 9781439175903
- SKU : B003007
- PPC : SP400gm
- RRP : $15.00
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"The Year We Left Home plumbs the American heart with rigor and intensity, seamlessly connecting one family's fortunes to those of the larger national community." - Liza Nelson, O: The Oprah Magazine.
"A smart, resonant novel." - Boston Globe.
"An extraordinarily warm-hearted novel." - Jonathan Dee, The New York Times Book Review.
"Enlightening and quietly brilliant . . . Thompson is a master at mining the most ridiculous of human foibles while never losing compassion for her flawed characters." - Connie Ogle, The Miami Herald.
"Fantastic . . . Enormously satisfying . . . Thompson has a light, exquisite touch. . . . Rich, detailed, resonant, emotionally spot-on." - Bill Eichenberger, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
"Powerful and darkly humorous . . . Thompson's characters are sharply drawn and deeply familiar. Her dialogue is pitch-perfect." - Laurie Hertzel, Minneapolis Star Tribune.
"Each chapter is beautifully written and encompasses other family members; the joy of the novel is learning what peripherally happened to the other characters within that narrative (or not). The magnificence is that this never seems forced, despite the serialization of the narrative. The novel is not a laundry list of the culture during this time (something I usually enjoy) but instead often centre on Updikian themes like infidelity, the death of the small towns and tenuous connection of family. The four Erickson children (Ryan, as well as Anita, Torrie and Bradley) live different lives with different tragedies, embarrassments and ennui. The setting is an important element of the play; Iowa in the latter days of the 20th century, as the country's farming community falls apart." - Goodreads Review.
The Author
Jean Thompson (born January 3, 1950) is an American novelist, short story writer, and teacher of creative writing. She lives in Urbana, Illinois, where she has spent much of her career, and is a professor emerita at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, having also taught at San Francisco State University, Reed College, and Northwestern University.