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This is the new novel from the US editor of "The Help" and "The Postmistress". Alex George's "A Good American" is a positive and uplifting novel about the American Dream. Germany, 1904: When Frederick and Jette must flee her disapproving mother, where better to go than America, the land of the new? Originally set to board a boat to New York, at the last minute they take one destined for New Orleans, and later find themselves, more by chance than by design, in the small town of Beatrice, Missouri. Not speaking a word of English, they embark on their new life together. From bare-knuckle prizefighting and Prohibition to sweet barbershop harmonies and the Kennedy assassination, the family is caught up in the sweep of history as they find their place in their adopted country. Poignant, funny and heartbreaking, "A Good American" is a universal story about our search for home. "There's plenty of storytelling charm on display here, with echoes of John Irving's humane zaniness". ("The New York Times"). "Epic, lyrical, compelling". ("USA Today"). "A sweeping, lush intergenerational novel about a family of German-Americans learning to live in 20th-century America". (Oprah.com).
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Présentation de l'éditeur :
“A beautifully written novel, laced with history and music.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A BOOKPAGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Everything he’d seen had been unimaginably different from the dry, dour streets of home, and to his surprise he was not sorry in the slightest. He was smitten by the beguiling otherness of it all.
Revue de presse :
A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A BOOKPAGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Everything he’d seen had been unimaginably different from the dry, dour streets of home, and to his surprise he was not sorry in the slightest. He was smitten by the beguiling otherness of it all.
And so began my grandfather’s rapturous love affair with America—an affair that would continue until the day he died.
This is the story of the Meisenheimer family, told by James, a third-generation American living in Beatrice, Missouri. It’s where his German grandparents—Frederick and Jette—found themselves after journeying across the turbulent Atlantic, fording the flood-swollen Mississippi, and being brought to a sudden halt by the broken water of the pregnant Jette.
A Good American tells of Jette’s dogged determination to feed a town sauerkraut and soul food; the loves and losses of her children, Joseph and Rosa; and the precocious voices of James and his brothers, sometimes raised in discord…sometimes in perfect harmony.
But above all, A Good American is about the music in Frederick’s heart, a song that began as an aria, was jazzed by ragtime, and became an anthem of love for his adopted country that the family still hears to this day.
A sentimental, lively, and sad family saga spanning four generations (Publisher's Weekly)
Epic, lyrical, compelling (USA Today)
A sweeping, lush intergenerational novel about a family of German-Americans learning to live in 20th-century America (Oprah.com)
There's plenty of storytelling charm on display here, with echoes of John Irving's humane zaniness (The New York Times)
Epic, lyrical, compelling (USA Today)
A sweeping, lush intergenerational novel about a family of German-Americans learning to live in 20th-century America (Oprah.com)
There's plenty of storytelling charm on display here, with echoes of John Irving's humane zaniness (The New York Times)
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- ÉditeurAmy Einhorn Books/Putnam
- Date d'édition2012
- ISBN 10 0399158510
- ISBN 13 9780399158513
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages400
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