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The King is Dead

3.51 ( 125 Ratings by Goodreads)
The King is Dead

The King is Dead

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3.51 (125 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 4 August, 2003
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the breakthrough novel from one of the most talented and celebrated young novelists in America -- a stirring, sweeping romance about a Good Woman and her Good Man, falling into bed, into marriage, into parenthood, into responsibility, and out again...The King Is Dead is that simple-but-beautiful, forever-compelling thing: the story of a heart-stirring romance that breeds a family and a history, then fades to black -- out of which something else is born. We're in the American South -- it's the New South born of the New Deal. The old ways of the Confederacy have been eliminated by all that Yankee efficiency and progress, except of course they haven't. We have a Good Man, Walter, moving into the heart of the machinery of American life, as the indispensable eyes and ears of the wily Governor of Tennessee. He meets his Good Woman, Nicole, in a ballpark carpark, a perfect crucible for an emblematic American romance; they banter and spar in best Bogart-Bacall fashion, then fall to billing and cooing, and, after proper delay, into bed, into marriage, into parenthood, into responsibility. And we follow that long, lovely fall. And then where are they? What can surprise them? What can rend their sweet, earned ease asunder? Well, you'll see...Along the way, the defining moments of a life, of a family history, are given in surprising, gorgeous prose, which has an incantatory luxury to it. You recline into this prose, comfortable as can be, and don't ever want to rise out of it. It's quite a departure for Jim Lewis. This third novel has been a long time coming, and it's very much a case of Great Third LP Syndrome, following Startlingly Inventive Ethereal First Album (Sister) and Difficult, Elusive Second Album (Why the Tree Loves the Axe). This is what we've been waiting for. This is why we wait.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780007135233
ISBN10 0007135238
Number Of Pages 240
Item Weight 487 g
Product Dimensions 158 x 32 x 210 mm
Publisher / Reseller Flamingo
Format paperback
Edition First British Edition
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'Jim Lewis is an accomplished and erudite writer who wears these qualities lightly, making sure they dazzle and amuse rather than bewilder and confuse.' Erica Wagner, The Times Praise for Why The Tree Loves The Axe: 'A literary suspense novel that actually delivers -- a page-turner that will keep readers guessing till the end, their curiosity fueled as much by the book's gorgeously inventive imagery as by its seductive plot.' New York Times 'A clever, weird, utterly absorbing story told by a rare talent.' The Times Reviews for Why The Tree Loves The Axe: 'Lewis's imagery is startling, rich and strange.' Time Out By releasing the tallest of stories in a rush of rich language, Jim Lewis dazzles you into credulity. An unmissable novel.' She 'The language is lush, and the overall effect is surreal. Lewis manages to transform suburban life in the southern states into a post-gothic world of strange coincidences and vivid visual impressions... An eerie and atmospheric novel.' Financial Times

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jim lewis is one of the most praised US novelists of his generation, alongside messrs Franzen, Moody, Eugenides, Saunders and Foster Wallace. As well as his published fiction, he has done a considerable amount of art-related writing for exhibitions and catalogues, and has a film script in production with Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Films.

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