Village Prodigies by Rodney Jones

Village Prodigies by Rodney Jones

"A novel in language as dense and lush and beautiful as poetry . . . [or] a book of poetry with the vivid characters and the narrative force of a novel? Whatever you care to call it, it's a remarkable achievement." -- Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls

 

Village Prodigies imagines the town of Cold Springs, Alabama, from 1950 to 2015 and unfurls its narrative reach as six boys--prodigies and swains--grow up and leave the familiarity of home and the rural South.



Yet all prodigies, all memories, all stories inevitably loop back. Through a multiplicity of points of view and innovative forms, Rodney Jones plays with the contradictions in our experience of time, creating portals through which we travel between moments and characters, from the interior mind to the most exterior speech, from delusions to rational thought. We experience Alzheimer's and its effect on family, listen to family lore and read family Facebook posts, relive war, and revive half-forgotten folktales and video games. In this deep examination of personal and communal memory, Jones blurs the lines between analog and digital, poetry and prose.



 

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9780544960107
ISBN 10	0544960106
Titel	Village Prodigies
Autor	Rodney Jones
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Houghton Mifflin
Erscheinungsjahr	2017-03-21
Seitenanzahl	192
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.