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Pearl: A Novel by Siân Hughes (2024, Hardcover). New! Long-listed for the Booker
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- ISBN
- 9780593802564
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
059380256X
ISBN-13
9780593802564
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17063195035
Product Key Features
Book Title
Pearl : a Novel
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Family Life, Small Town & Rural, Literary
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
14 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2023-043748
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20230919
Reviews
A New York Times Summer Reading List Recommendation "A beautiful tale of sadness and enduring love.... that feels like a modern fairy tale.... Pearl is a masterful novel, shot through with legend and song. It can be read on many levels: as a mystery, as a story of grief and healing, as a response to a poem. But most of all, it can be read as a story of love." --Laurie Hertzel, The Boston Globe "Pearl is a gorgeous, swirling, haunted and haunting potion of a book. It embodies like no other the truth that every absence is as singular and elaborate and mysterious as the presence of the thing--or person--it describes, no matter how back to front, inside out, lucidly or ethereally memories of its particulars may come and go. How utterly moving, to be under its beautiful, artful spell." --Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Tinkers and This Other Eden "Pearl, an exceptional debut novel, is both a mystery story and a meditation on grief, abandonment and consolation, evoking the profundities of the haunting medieval poem... It's a book that will be passed from hand to hand for a long time to come." -- The Booker Prize 2023 judges "[A] gorgeous novel.... Marianne sees her grief and love reflected in the preserved, 14th-century lines [of the poem Pearl ].... Hughes's placid and deep novel chains sorrows to each other as the narrative unfurls, creating a delicate tether connecting moments of loss." -- Literary Hub "Hughes, who is a poet herself, brings an attention to language and to the natural world that lends a beautiful vibrancy to her sentences.... [And h]umor brightens grief-filled and difficult moments... Pearl is also full of the gentle landscape and hallowed folklore of English village life, sometimes with a slightly gothic cast....[A] tender debut novel" -- BookPage , starred review "Compulsive and wonderfully written, Pearl is a small gem." -- The Times Literary Supplement "The prose has a bubbling verve that is deeply appealing."-- The Financial Times "A really beautiful story.... It's a special book."-- The New York Times Book Review podcast, "Pearl is a gorgeous, swirling, haunted and haunting potion of a book. It embodies like no other the truth that every absence is as singular and elaborate and mysterious as the presence of the thing--or person--it describes, no matter how back to front, inside out, lucidly or ethereally memories of its particulars may come and go. How utterly moving, to be under its beautiful, artful spell." --Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Tinkers and This Other Eden "Pearl, an exceptional debut novel, is both a mystery story and a meditation on grief, abandonment and consolation, evoking the profundities of the haunting medieval poem... It's a book that will be passed from hand to hand for a long time to come." -- The Booker Prize 2023 judges "Compulsive and wonderfully written, Pearl is a small gem." -- The Times Literary Supplement, A New York Times Summer Reading List Recommended Title * A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 at LitHub "A beautiful tale of sadness and enduring love.... that feels like a modern fairy tale.... Pearl is a masterful novel, shot through with legend and song. It can be read on many levels: as a mystery, as a story of grief and healing, as a response to a poem. But most of all, it can be read as a story of love." --Laurie Hertzel, The Boston Globe "Pearl is a gorgeous, swirling, haunted and haunting potion of a book. It embodies like no other the truth that every absence is as singular and elaborate and mysterious as the presence of the thing--or person--it describes, no matter how back to front, inside out, lucidly or ethereally memories of its particulars may come and go. How utterly moving, to be under its beautiful, artful spell." --Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Tinkers and This Other Eden "Pearl, an exceptional debut novel, is both a mystery story and a meditation on grief, abandonment and consolation, evoking the profundities of the haunting medieval poem... It's a book that will be passed from hand to hand for a long time to come." -- The Booker Prize 2023 judges "[A] gorgeous novel.... Marianne sees her grief and love reflected in the preserved, 14th-century lines [of the poem Pearl ].... Hughes's placid and deep novel chains sorrows to each other as the narrative unfurls, creating a delicate tether connecting moments of loss." -- Literary Hub "Hughes, who is a poet herself, brings an attention to language and to the natural world that lends a beautiful vibrancy to her sentences.... [And h]umor brightens grief-filled and difficult moments... Pearl is also full of the gentle landscape and hallowed folklore of English village life, sometimes with a slightly gothic cast....[A] tender debut novel" -- BookPage , "Fresh Voices" "Compulsive and wonderfully written, Pearl is a small gem." -- The Times Literary Supplement
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Synopsis
LONG-LISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - Heartbreaking and redeeming, Pearl is the story of a young woman in a small English village who is struggling with the disappearance of her mother, what feels like a lifetime ago. "A masterful novel, shot through with legend and song. It can be read on many levels: as a mystery, as a story of grief and healing, as a response to a poem. But most of all, it can be read as a story of love." -- The Boston Globe "A gorgeous, swirling, haunted and haunting potion of a book...How utterly moving, to be under its beautiful, artful spell." --Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Tinkers and This Other Eden Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing. Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented memories of her mother's love; the smell of fresh herbs, the games they played, and the songs and stories of her childhood. As time passes, Marianne finds it difficult to adjust, fixated on her mother's disappearance and the secrets she's sure her father is keeping from her. Yet, in one of her mother's dusty old books, she discovers a medieval poem called Pearl , and, trusting in the promise of its consolation, it seems as if her life begins to parallel the poem's course. But questions remain. Marianne is ever more tormented by the unmarked gravestone in the abandoned chapel and the tidal pull of the river, and as her childhood home begins to crumble, the past leads her down a path of self-destruction. Can Marianne ever come to understand her mother's choices? And will her own future as a mother help her find her peace?, LONG-LISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE * Heartbreaking and redeeming, Pearl is the story of a young woman in a small English village who is struggling with the disappearance of her mother, what feels like a lifetime ago. "A masterful novel, shot through with legend and song. It can be read on many levels: as a mystery, as a story of grief and healing, as a response to a poem. But most of all, it can be read as a story of love." -- The Boston Globe "A gorgeous, swirling, haunted and haunting potion of a book...How utterly moving, to be under its beautiful, artful spell." --Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Tinkers and This Other Eden Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing. Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented memories of her mother's love; the smell of fresh herbs, the games they played, and the songs and stories of her childhood. As time passes, Marianne finds it difficult to adjust, fixated on her mother's disappearance and the secrets she's sure her father is keeping from her. Yet, in one of her mother's dusty old books, she discovers a medieval poem called Pearl , and, trusting in the promise of its consolation, it seems as if her life begins to parallel the poem's course. But questions remain. Marianne is ever more tormented by the unmarked gravestone in the abandoned chapel and the tidal pull of the river, and as her childhood home begins to crumble, the past leads her down a path of self-destruction. Can Marianne ever come to understand her mother's choices? And will her own future as a mother help her find her peace?
LC Classification Number
PR6058.U3685P43 2024
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