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Finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award "This small novel works like a laser beam, penetrating the American experience with searing and concentrated intensity."--Los Angeles Times "The Tree of Life is one of the most powerful, original, and disturbing books that I have read in a long time. Hugh Nissenson has caught the voice of the old-time diary keeper just exactly. It's uncanny, marvelous, so direct and deceptively simple that you know what pains he has taken.The book is a work of art and no one who reads it will ever forget it."--David McCullough "It is a tale more moving and haunting than one thinks it can possibly be."--The Village Voice The year is 1811. Having suffered a loss of faith, Thomas Keene, Congregational minister from New England, abandons the East and moves to Richland County on the Ohio frontier. The Tree of Life is Keene's journal: stories and jottings appear alongside accounting entries and poems, coarse jokes and sermons, woodcuts and maps. In this "Waste Book," Keene conveys his longing for a young widow, his fascination with John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed), and his resolve in the face of the growing enmity between his fellow settlers and the Delaware Indians. The Tree of Life reveals a man of intellect and passion as he confronts the raw country. "The juxtaposition of horror and information perfectly captures the genius of this imagined diary...Scarcely a word is wasted. Hardly an aspect of the struggle to found a new civilization remains untouched. The Tree of Life dramatizes, sometimes with almost unbearable intensity, the American dream and its attendant nightmare."--Time Magazine "[The Tree of Life] confronts us where our deepest and most disturbing fantasies intersect with our sense of history...Given the richness of its texture and the strength of whichever of its threads one pursues, one can imagine that its force will grow and take an ever tighter grip on our understanding of the American past. It is a book that plants deep seeds."--New York Times "A beautifully paced book...[it] allows the shocks and resonances to gather slowly, the way they do in life when you are taking everything in, but cannot yet allow yourself to admit how much you've been affected...In thrall to the powers Mr. Nissenson has invoked and wielded with such fearful symmetry--the powers of documentation and of vision--we can only read on."--Margo Jefferson, from her new Introduction Hugh Nissenson (1933-2013) was born in New York City. After graduating from Swarthmore College, he published his first short story in Harper's Magazine in 1958. He taught writing at Yale, Barnard, and Auburn Theological Seminary, and was the author of a memoir, three collections of short stories and journals, and many novels. Margo Jefferson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic. She has been a staff writer forThe New York Times andNewsweek; her reviews and essays have appeared inNew York Magazine,Grand Street,Vogue,Harper's and many other publications.… (altro)
Unique novel in that it's written as a journal, set in Ohio in 1811 and 1812 during the War of 1812. Excellent portrayal of everyday life from the mundane to the horrific. ( )
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Les Dieux de la terre et de la mer Dans toute la nature ont recherché cet Arbre; Mais leur quête inlassable fut vaine : Il en pousse un dans le cerveau humain. William Blake, L'abstraction humaine
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Pour Marilyn, Kate et Kore, et pour Don Hustlar, sans qui je n'aurais pu écrire ni illustrer ce livre.
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Inventaire de mes possessions, à moi, Thomas Keene, telles qu'en ce jour et comme suit : 1er Juillet. Premièrement. Je possède en espèces : $17.62 Liste des biens. 1 vache rousse à corne du Devon, laitière et trait, Juno, 5 ans, avec une tâche brune à l'oeil gauche : $ 30.00 ...
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Embrasse Meg & les filles de ma part. Quel nom Kitty a-t-elle choisi pour son poney ? Comment vont tese affaires ? Tendrement, Papa.
Finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award "This small novel works like a laser beam, penetrating the American experience with searing and concentrated intensity."--Los Angeles Times "The Tree of Life is one of the most powerful, original, and disturbing books that I have read in a long time. Hugh Nissenson has caught the voice of the old-time diary keeper just exactly. It's uncanny, marvelous, so direct and deceptively simple that you know what pains he has taken.The book is a work of art and no one who reads it will ever forget it."--David McCullough "It is a tale more moving and haunting than one thinks it can possibly be."--The Village Voice The year is 1811. Having suffered a loss of faith, Thomas Keene, Congregational minister from New England, abandons the East and moves to Richland County on the Ohio frontier. The Tree of Life is Keene's journal: stories and jottings appear alongside accounting entries and poems, coarse jokes and sermons, woodcuts and maps. In this "Waste Book," Keene conveys his longing for a young widow, his fascination with John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed), and his resolve in the face of the growing enmity between his fellow settlers and the Delaware Indians. The Tree of Life reveals a man of intellect and passion as he confronts the raw country. "The juxtaposition of horror and information perfectly captures the genius of this imagined diary...Scarcely a word is wasted. Hardly an aspect of the struggle to found a new civilization remains untouched. The Tree of Life dramatizes, sometimes with almost unbearable intensity, the American dream and its attendant nightmare."--Time Magazine "[The Tree of Life] confronts us where our deepest and most disturbing fantasies intersect with our sense of history...Given the richness of its texture and the strength of whichever of its threads one pursues, one can imagine that its force will grow and take an ever tighter grip on our understanding of the American past. It is a book that plants deep seeds."--New York Times "A beautifully paced book...[it] allows the shocks and resonances to gather slowly, the way they do in life when you are taking everything in, but cannot yet allow yourself to admit how much you've been affected...In thrall to the powers Mr. Nissenson has invoked and wielded with such fearful symmetry--the powers of documentation and of vision--we can only read on."--Margo Jefferson, from her new Introduction Hugh Nissenson (1933-2013) was born in New York City. After graduating from Swarthmore College, he published his first short story in Harper's Magazine in 1958. He taught writing at Yale, Barnard, and Auburn Theological Seminary, and was the author of a memoir, three collections of short stories and journals, and many novels. Margo Jefferson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic. She has been a staff writer forThe New York Times andNewsweek; her reviews and essays have appeared inNew York Magazine,Grand Street,Vogue,Harper's and many other publications.