Hieroglyphics by Jill Mccorkle

Hieroglyphics by Jill Mccorkle

"Hieroglyphics is a novel that tugs at the deepest places of the human soul--a beautiful, heart-piercing meditation on life and death and the marks we leave on this world. It is the work of a wonderful writer at her finest and most profound."

--Jessica Shattuck, author of The Women in the Castle



A mesmerizing novel about the burden of secrets carried across generations.

 

Lil and Frank married young, launched into courtship when they bonded over how they both--suddenly, tragically-- lost a parent when they were children. Over time, their marriage grew and strengthened, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents they'd lost prematurely. 



Now, after many years in Boston, they've retired to North Carolina. There, Lil, determined to leave a history for their children, sifts through letters and notes and diary entries--perhaps revealing more secrets than Frank wants their children to know. Meanwhile, Frank has become obsessed with what might have been left behind at the house he lived in as a boy on the outskirts of town, where a young single mother, Shelley, is just trying to raise her son with some sense of normalcy. Frank's repeated visits to Shelley's house begin to trigger memories of her own family, memories that she'd hoped to keep buried. Because, after all, not all parents are ones you wish to remember.



Hieroglyphics reveals the difficulty of ever really knowing the intentions and dreams and secrets of the people who raised you. In her deeply layered and masterful novel, Jill McCorkle deconstructs and reconstructs what it means to be a father or a mother, and what it means to be a child piecing together the world around us, a child learning to make sense of the hieroglyphics of history and memory.

 

Jill McCorkle's first two novels were published simultaneously when she was fresh out of college, earning her the title of born writer by the New York Times. She's released six novels and four collections of short stories since then, and her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction multiple times. Her most recent novel, Life After Life, was a New York Times bestseller, and five of her books have been named New York Times Notable Books. The New England Booksellers Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literary, and the North Carolina Award for Literature have all been bestowed upon her. She has contributed to magazines such as the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Garden and Gun, the Atlantic, and others.

She was a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction at Harvard University, where she also served as chair of the creative writing department. She is presently a member of the Bennington College Writing Seminars faculty and a graduate student at North Carolina State University's MFA program.

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ISBN 13	9781616209728
ISBN 10	1616209720
Titel	Hieroglyphics
Autor	Jill Mccorkle
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Algonquin Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2020-07-28
Seitenanzahl	320
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