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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062270419
ISBN-13
9780062270412
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Product Key Features

Book Title
Past : a Novel
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Family Life, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Author
Tessa Hadley
Format
Hardcover

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1 in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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2015-506403
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23
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Hadley's formidable storytelling talent and compassionate understanding of humanity pull us right into this beautifully told narrative.... A memorable novel that continues to resonate well after the reader has turned the last page, and makes us long for the next work of fiction by this outstanding English writer., "I finished "The Past'' sadly -- why did it have to end? -- with a sense that I had understood something profound about both Hadley's characters, and my own life. Many readers will, I suspect, in the presence of this exhilarating novel feel the same.", Deliciously precise.... Built in a Chekhovian manner, handily assembling the grown members of an extended family and their offspring under one roof.... Hadley is adept at delineating the Cranes' brand of cultured middle-class Britishness in all its generational mutations., Hadley's prose is descriptively rich. She elevates the mundane via her keen understanding go people and the emotional complexities of marriages and families-secrets, subtle deceptions and loyalties., Few writers have been as important to me as Tessa Hadley. She puts on paper a consciousness so visceral, so fully realized, it heightens and expands your own. She is a true master, and The Past is a big, brilliant novel: sensual, wise, compelling-and utterly magnificent., Hadley's formidable storytelling talent and compassionate understanding of humanity pull us right into this beautifully told narrative…. A memorable novel that continues to resonate well after the reader has turned the last page, and makes us long for the next work of fiction by this outstanding English writer., Hadley is so perceptive… that it can feel like she's revealing little secrets about life that it would have taken you years to notice on your own. A-, A novel so evocative of summer and adolescence that to read it is to reexperience the deep languor and longing of those days.... We come to understand that the past... is merely yesterday's present.... It is that revelation that elevates the novel, deepening our own understanding of what shapes us., I finished 'The Past' sadly -- why did it have to end? -- with a sense that I had understood something profound about both Hadley's characters, and my own life. Many readers will, I suspect, in the presence of this exhilarating novel feel the same., Chekhovian by way of a modern-day British pastoral…. Hadley moves deftly back and forth between eras and generations…. As in Chekhov's dramas, The Past is a stage on which nothing much happens, brilliantly, even as everything slowly disintegrates., Tessa Hadley has become one of this country's great contemporary novelists. She is equipped with an armoury of techniques and skills that may yet secure her a position as the greatest of them., Subtle....A story that doesn't overreach, about a character who feels real, told in prose that isn't ornate yet is startlingly exact. The effect is a fine and well-chosen pileup of experiences that gather meaning and power….Stella may not stand out, but Tessa Hadley certainly does., Each player... is so distinct, so warmly dimensional you soon feel you know them as well as they know each other. This alone... is a marvel. More marvelous still is Hadley's seamless, steady control, moving individual and collective stories forward and backward in time - a splendid work., Tessa Hadley recruits admirers with each book. She writes with authority, and with delicacy: she explores nuance, but speaks plainly; she is one of those writers a reader trusts., Exquisite.... For anyone who cherishes Anne Tyler and Alice Munro, the book offers similar deep pleasures. Like those North American masters of the domestic realm, Hadley crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural.... Extraordinary., Placing fraught family relationships under the microscope, Hadley, wise and discerning, offers a subtle-yet-bold examination of complex emotional subtexts that have the power to bring kin together or destroy the bonds that would otherwise unite them., A fresh take on a familiar story of fractious family reunions where old resentments resurface, new alliances form, and long-buried secrets are uncovered. A great read whether at the cottage or just dreaming of one., From the coziest and most familiar of fictional materials, Hadley has created a remarkable story as disturbing as it is diverting., Hadley should be a bestseller rather than literary fiction's best kept secret…. [She] is an exquisite writer, a writer's writer, with a fine eye for detail and a way of crafting sentences that stop and make you inhale., I find Tessa Hadley's work genuinely helpful, especially when it comes to the big subjects: love and marriage, the political versus the personal, children, friendship. And then there are the sentences themselves, so precise and beautiful, often sly, sometimes devastating, always expertly paced. Few writers give me such consistent pleasure., A novel so evocative of summer and adolescence that to read it is to reexperience the deep languor and longing of those days…. We come to understand that the past... is merely yesterday's present.... It is that revelation that elevates the novel, deepening our own understanding of what shapes us., Universal in its appeal and its intuitive ways of revealing how human nature, even our own, can surprise us.... Readers...should prepare themselves...for the beautiful cadences of Hadley's descriptive, lyrical prose., Few writers have been as important to me as Tessa Hadley. She puts on paper a consciousness so visceral, so fully realized, it heightens and expands your own. She is a true master, and The Past is a big, brilliant novel: sensual, wise, compelling--and utterly magnificent., Masterful.... Captures the gentle tragedies of living, losses, and regrets.... Hadley is the patron saint of ordinary lives; her trademark empathy and sharp insight are out in force here., Hadley's novel is the kind of observant, bittersweet book whose pleasures defy plot summaries....With Hadley's wry insights and gorgeous sentences, readers, like Alice, will find themselves only too happy to be enfolded by 'The Past.', Exquisite…. For anyone who cherishes Anne Tyler and Alice Munro, the book offers similar deep pleasures. Like those North American masters of the domestic realm, Hadley crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural.... Extraordinary., Powerful…. Ms. Hadley has a talent for the canny detail…. There are platoons of novelists producing work about middle-class marriages in disarray, most of it very dull. Ms. Hadley is one of the gifted exceptions, and the calm acuity with which she depicts these fractured relationships is haunting., [An] expertly wrought depiction of family life. Hadley's arresting descriptions of the physical and emotional landscape, and her tender approach to love, lust and, crucially, the passing of time underline her reputation as one of the UK's finest contemporary novelists., Splendid.... Hadley's gift for depicting the interior lives of children and adults rivals Ian McEwans's in the aptly lauded first section of Atonement ., Hadley is so perceptive... that it can feel like she's revealing little secrets about life that it would have taken you years to notice on your own. A-, Universal in its appeal and its intuitive ways of revealing how human nature, even our own, can surprise us…. Readers…should prepare themselves…for the beautiful cadences of Hadley's descriptive, lyrical prose., I finished 'The Past' sadly - why did it have to end? - with a sense that I had understood something profound about both Hadley's characters, and my own life. Many readers will, I suspect, in the presence of this exhilarating novel feel the same., "Hadley glides like a familiar spirit through the rooms of the house and the perspectives of her characters.... Her novels have a moral spaciousness that gives their ordinary settings and conflicts a philosophical range.... "The Past" shows Ms. Hadley's gifts in fine fettle.", Chekhovian by way of a modern-day British pastoral.... Hadley moves deftly back and forth between eras and generations.... As in Chekhov's dramas, The Past is a stage on which nothing much happens, brilliantly, even as everything slowly disintegrates., Hadley is so insightful, such a lovely writer, that she pulls you right into the tangle of wires that connect and trip up the stressed siblings. She makes you feel for these imperfect people, want to scold them, and ultimately accept them as they are. Just like family., Each player... is so distinct, so warmly dimensional you soon feel you know them as well as they know each other. This alone... is a marvel. More marvelous still is Hadley's seamless, steady control, moving individual and collective stories forward and backward in time -- a splendid work., Masterly….When it comes to domestic drama Hadley is without rival, and here her considerable talent is poured into an astonishingly astute grasp of 'the sheer irritation and perplexity of family coexistence'., Masterful…. Captures the gentle tragedies of living, losses, and regrets…. Hadley is the patron saint of ordinary lives; her trademark empathy and sharp insight are out in force here., A new Tessa Hadley novel is a pleasure to be savoured. In her five novels and two collections of stories, Hadley has matched the psychological insight of Henry James with the sharp dialogue of Elizabeth Bowen.... A hugely enjoyable and keenly intelligent novel, brimming with the vitality of unruly desire., "Hadley glides like a familiar spirit through the rooms of the house and the perspectives of her characters…. Her novels have a moral spaciousness that gives their ordinary settings and conflicts a philosophical range.... "The Past" shows Ms. Hadley's gifts in fine fettle.", Hadley's prose is descriptively rich. She elevates the mundane via her keen understanding go people and the emotional complexities of marriages and families--secrets, subtle deceptions and loyalties., Hadley's beautifully composed new novel... recalls Elizabeth Bowen's The House in Paris in its dovetailing story lines, but the author's genius for the thorny comforts of family... are entirely her own., A British writer whose work probes the dangers and joys of family life, Tessa Hadley writes like a dream, even if some of her stories can haunt you like a nightmare….Hadley's measured, perfectly controlled prose masterfully chronicles her characters' turmoil; these stories are gemlike and unforgettable., A novel of delicious readability that reaffirms its author's reputation--Hadley is regularly and deservedly compared to Henry James and Alice Munro. She's thrillingly perceptive and deeply sympathetic, and also a supreme craftsman…. An extremely affecting novel of cumulative richness., Splendid…. Hadley's gift for depicting the interior lives of children and adults rivals Ian McEwans's in the aptly lauded first section of Atonement .
Dewey Decimal
823.92
Synopsis
In her most accessible, commercial novel yet, the "supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence (New York Times Book Review) turns her astute eye to a dramatic family reunion, where simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over three long, hot summer weeks. With five novels and two collections of stories, Tessa Hadley has earned a reputation as a fiction writer of remarkable gifts. She brings all of her considerable skill and an irresistible setup to The Past, a novel in which three sisters, a brother, and their children assemble at their country house. These three weeks may be their last time there; the upkeep is prohibitive, and they may be forced to sell this beloved house filled with memories of their shared past (their mother took them there to live when she left their father). Yet beneath the idyllic pastoral surface, hidden passions, devastating secrets, and dangerous hostilities threaten to consume them. Sophisticated and sleek, Roland's new wife (his third) arouses his sisters' jealousies and insecurities. Kasim, the twenty-year-old son of Alice's ex-boyfriend, becomes enchanted with Molly, Roland's sixteen-year-old daughter. Fran's young children make an unsettling discovery in a dilapidated cottage in the woods that shatters their innocence. Passion erupts where it's least expected, leveling the quiet self-possession of Harriet, the eldest sister. Over the course of this summer holiday, the family's stories and silences intertwine, small disturbances build into familial crises, and a way of life-bourgeois, literate, ritualized, Anglican-winds down to its inevitable end. With subtle precision and deep compassion, Tessa Hadley brilliantly evokes a brewing storm of lust and envy, the indelible connections of memory and affection, the fierce, nostalgic beauty of the natural world, and the shifting currents of history running beneath the surface of these seemingly steady lives. The result is a novel of breathtaking skill and scope that showcases this major writer's extraordinary talents., Winner of the Windham Campbell Prize * A Washington Post Best Book of the Year * A Time Best Book of the Year * A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year * A Huffington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year * A New York Times Editors' Choice In her most accessible, commercial novel yet, the "supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence (New York Times Book Review) turns her astute eye to a dramatic family reunion, where simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over three long, hot summer weeks. With five novels and two collections of stories, Tessa Hadley has earned a reputation as a fiction writer of remarkable gifts. She brings all of her considerable skill and an irresistible setup to The Past, a novel in which three sisters, a brother, and their children assemble at their country house. These three weeks may be their last time there; the upkeep is prohibitive, and they may be forced to sell this beloved house filled with memories of their shared past (their mother took them there to live when she left their father). Yet beneath the idyllic pastoral surface, hidden passions, devastating secrets, and dangerous hostilities threaten to consume them. Sophisticated and sleek, Roland's new wife (his third) arouses his sisters' jealousies and insecurities. Kasim, the twenty-year-old son of Alice's ex-boyfriend, becomes enchanted with Molly, Roland's sixteen-year-old daughter. Fran's young children make an unsettling discovery in a dilapidated cottage in the woods that shatters their innocence. Passion erupts where it's least expected, leveling the quiet self-possession of Harriet, the eldest sister. Over the course of this summer holiday, the family's stories and silences intertwine, small disturbances build into familial crises, and a way of life--bourgeois, literate, ritualized, Anglican--winds down to its inevitable end. With subtle precision and deep compassion, Tessa Hadley brilliantly evokes a brewing storm of lust and envy, the indelible connections of memory and affection, the fierce, nostalgic beauty of the natural world, and the shifting currents of history running beneath the surface of these seemingly steady lives. The result is a novel of breathtaking skill and scope that showcases this major writer's extraordinary talents., Winner of the Windham Campbell Prize - A Washington Post Best Book of the Year - A Time Best Book of the Year - A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year - A Huffington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year - A New York Times Editors' Choice In her most accessible, commercial novel yet, the "supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence ( New York Times Book Review ) turns her astute eye to a dramatic family reunion, where simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over three long, hot summer weeks. With five novels and two collections of stories, Tessa Hadley has earned a reputation as a fiction writer of remarkable gifts. She brings all of her considerable skill and an irresistible setup to The Past , a novel in which three sisters, a brother, and their children assemble at their country house. These three weeks may be their last time there; the upkeep is prohibitive, and they may be forced to sell this beloved house filled with memories of their shared past (their mother took them there to live when she left their father). Yet beneath the idyllic pastoral surface, hidden passions, devastating secrets, and dangerous hostilities threaten to consume them. Sophisticated and sleek, Roland's new wife (his third) arouses his sisters' jealousies and insecurities. Kasim, the twenty-year-old son of Alice's ex-boyfriend, becomes enchanted with Molly, Roland's sixteen-year-old daughter. Fran's young children make an unsettling discovery in a dilapidated cottage in the woods that shatters their innocence. Passion erupts where it's least expected, leveling the quiet self-possession of Harriet, the eldest sister. Over the course of this summer holiday, the family's stories and silences intertwine, small disturbances build into familial crises, and a way of life--bourgeois, literate, ritualized, Anglican--winds down to its inevitable end. With subtle precision and deep compassion, Tessa Hadley brilliantly evokes a brewing storm of lust and envy, the indelible connections of memory and affection, the fierce, nostalgic beauty of the natural world, and the shifting currents of history running beneath the surface of these seemingly steady lives. The result is a novel of breathtaking skill and scope that showcases this major writer's extraordinary talents.
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PR6108.A35P38 2016

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