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- Book Title
- Wake : a Novel
- Publication Name
- The Wake
- Title
- The Wake
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1555977170
- EAN
- 9781555977177
- ISBN
- 9781555977177
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 01/09/2015
- Release Year
- 2015
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Item Weight
- 17.6 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Topic
- Literary, Historical
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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"A work that is as disturbing as it is empathetic, as beautiful as it is riveting." --Eimear McBride, New Statesman In the aftermath of the Norman Invasion of 1066, William the Conqueror was uncompromising and brutal. English society was broken apart, its systems turned on their head. What is little known is that a fractured network of guerrilla fighters took up arms against the French occupiers. In The Wake , a postapocalyptic novel set a thousand years in the past, Paul Kingsnorth brings this dire scenario back to us through the eyes of the unforgettable Buccmaster, a proud landowner bearing witness to the end of his world. Accompanied by a band of like-minded men, Buccmaster is determined to seek revenge on the invaders. But as the men travel across the scorched English landscape, Buccmaster becomes increasingly unhinged by the immensity of his loss, and their path forward becomes increasingly unclear. Written in what the author describes as "a shadow tongue"--a version of Old English updated so as to be understandable to the modern reader-- The Wake renders the inner life of an Anglo-Saxon man with an accuracy and immediacy rare in historical fiction. To enter Buccmaster's world is to feel powerfully the sheer strangeness of the past. A tale of lost gods and haunted visions, The Wake is both a sensational, gripping story and a major literary achievement.
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
ISBN-10
1555977170
ISBN-13
9781555977177
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208588187
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wake : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Pr6111.I63w35 2015
Reviews
" The Wake is a masterpiece. My top book of the year." --Eleanor Catton, Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize "A book unlike any other, brilliant in its rarity and brutal, ugly truth. . . . Kingsnorth has brought forth a remarkable narrator through whom we can see (and smell and taste) the burnt fields and bodies, the skeletal trees and smoldering fires--a world sickly similar to so many lesser visions of destruction, but given fresh and horrifying weight here by a mad experiment in language that has become a raw and powerful masterpiece." --NPR "Like Tolkien's and Martin's books, The Wake presents the reader with an immersive experience. . . . What sharply distinguishes it is its disorienting use of high literary experiment and its insistence on uncertainty. . . . The Wake reminds us that we can't find our way out of our crisis as easily as many think." -- Bookforum "Kingsnorth does not simply tell history: He invites the reader to inhabit it. . . . At once invigorating and terrifying. History almost a thousand years old feels intense and immediate, as close as the blood in one's veins and the memories one can't escape." -- Star Tribune (Minneapolis) "Kingsnorth's captivating first novel is thought provoking, multi-faceted and intriguingly rendered. . . . [ The Wake ] will satisfy motivated readers of history, ecology and the persistent pull of the old gods . " -- Shelf Awareness "Powerful eloquence, a brusque beauty, that moves and convinces. More than a mere novel, The Wake is really a medieval epic poem to an English way of life that would be erased forever." -- The Arts Fuse "A work that is as disturbing as it is empathetic, as beautiful as it is riveting." --EimearMcBride, New Statesman " The Wake is an astonishing accomplishment. . . . At first the prospect seems unreadably off-putting; within twenty pages you get the hang of it; by thirty the suddenly fluent reader is immersed entirely in the mental and geographical contours of the era. But it works the other way too: we are seeing--and feeling and hearing--the living roots of Englishness." --Geoff Dyer "Extraordinary." --Philip Pullman "A resonant, eloquent ballad of English identity, pride and fierce independence. It is a thrilling story. Read it out loud. It is like nothing else." --Mark Rylance "Kingsnorth's debut novel re-creates the mysterious joy that accompanies first learning how to read. Composed in a seductive Anglo-Saxon dialect, the narrative is disorienting yet familiar and brilliantly unreliable. Buccmaster's astonishing voice will haunt readers long after they finish this bold book." -- Library Journal , starred review "A feat of linguistic speculation." -- Publishers Weekly "Kingsnorth's use of an ever so slightly streamlined version of Old English to convey Buccmaster's story, rich in ghosts and the old gods, is daring." -- Kirkus Reviews "The message of this extraordinary novel is as honest and timely as it is discomforting. Being waecend to the grim fate of your society doesn't mean you can do anything to prevent it happening." -- Times Literary Supplement "Strange and extraordinary . . . this unusual novel has power. It lingers in the imagination." -- The Times (UK) "Reading [ The Wake ] is to be immersed in the past and in a story in a way that I haven't really felt since childhood. . . . The most glorious experience I've had with a book in years." -- The Guardian (UK) "Earthy, rude, rough-hewn lyricism. . . . A war epic, psychological thriller, and brooding meditation on the past's foreignness all in one." -- The Globe And Mail (UK), The Wake is an astonishing accomplishment. The events in it are chronicled by Buccmaster, a brutally unreliable narrator, in an adapted version of old English. At first the prospect seems unreadably off-putting; within twenty pages you get the hang of it; by thirty the suddenly fluent reader is immersed entirely in the mental and geographical contours of the era. But it works the other way too: we are seeing--and feeling and hearing--the living roots of Englishness., " The Wake is a masterpiece. My top book of the year." -- Eleanor Catton, Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize " The Wake is an astonishing accomplishment. The events in it are chronicled by Buccmaster, a brutally unreliable narrator, in an adapted version of old English. At first the prospect seems unreadably off-putting; within twenty pages you get the hang of it; by thirty the suddenly fluent reader is immersed entirely in the mental and geographical contours of the era. But it works the other way too: we are seeing--and feeling and hearing--the living roots of Englishness." -- Geoff Dyer "Extraordinary." -- Philip Pullman "Reading [ The Wake ] is to be immersed in the past and in a story in a way that I haven't really felt since childhood . . . The most glorious experience I've had with a book in years." -- Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, " The Wake is a masterpiece. My top book of the year." --Eleanor Catton, Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize "A book unlike any other, brilliant in its rarity and brutal, ugly truth. . . . Kingsnorth has brought forth a remarkable narrator through whom we can see (and smell and taste) the burnt fields and bodies, the skeletal trees and smoldering fires--a world sickly similar to so many lesser visions of destruction, but given fresh and horrifying weight here by a mad experiment in language that has become a raw and powerful masterpiece." --NPR "Like Tolkien''s and Martin''s books, The Wake presents the reader with an immersive experience. . . . What sharply distinguishes it is its disorienting use of high literary experiment and its insistence on uncertainty. . . . The Wake reminds us that we can''t find our way out of our crisis as easily as many think." -- Bookforum "Kingsnorth does not simply tell history: He invites the reader to inhabit it. . . . At once invigorating and terrifying. History almost a thousand years old feels intense and immediate, as close as the blood in one''s veins and the memories one can''t escape." -- Star Tribune (Minneapolis) "Kingsnorth''s captivating first novel is thought provoking, multi-faceted and intriguingly rendered. . . . [ The Wake ] will satisfy motivated readers of history, ecology and the persistent pull of the old gods . " -- Shelf Awareness "Powerful eloquence, a brusque beauty, that moves and convinces. More than a mere novel, The Wake is really a medieval epic poem to an English way of life that would be erased forever." -- The Arts Fuse "A work that is as disturbing as it is empathetic, as beautiful as it is riveting." --EimearMcBride, New Statesman " The Wake is an astonishing accomplishment. . . . At first the prospect seems unreadably off-putting; within twenty pages you get the hang of it; by thirty the suddenly fluent reader is immersed entirely in the mental and geographical contours of the era. But it works the other way too: we are seeing--and feeling and hearing--the living roots of Englishness." --Geoff Dyer "Extraordinary." --Philip Pullman "A resonant, eloquent ballad of English identity, pride and fierce independence. It is a thrilling story. Read it out loud. It is like nothing else." --Mark Rylance "Kingsnorth''s debut novel re-creates the mysterious joy that accompanies first learning how to read. Composed in a seductive Anglo-Saxon dialect, the narrative is disorienting yet familiar and brilliantly unreliable. Buccmaster''s astonishing voice will haunt readers long after they finish this bold book." -- Library Journal , starred review "A feat of linguistic speculation." -- Publishers Weekly "Kingsnorth''s use of an ever so slightly streamlined version of Old English to convey Buccmaster''s story, rich in ghosts and the old gods, is daring." -- Kirkus Reviews "The message of this extraordinary novel is as honest and timely as it is discomforting. Being waecend to the grim fate of your society doesn''t mean you can do anything to prevent it happening." -- Times Literary Supplement "Strange and extraordinary . . . this unusual novel has power. It lingers in the imagination." -- The Times (UK) "Reading [ The Wake ] is to be immersed in the past and in a story in a way that I haven''t really felt since childhood. . . . The most glorious experience I''ve had with a book in years." -- The Guardian (UK) "Earthy, rude, rough-hewn lyricism. . . . A war epic, psychological thriller, and brooding meditation on the past''s foreignness all in one." -- The Globe And Mail (UK), Reading [ The Wake ] is to be immersed in the past and in a story in a way that I haven't really felt since childhood . . . The most glorious experience I've had with a book in years., Praise for The Wake " The Wake is a masterpiece. My top book of the year." -Eleanor Catton, Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize " The Wake is an astonishing accomplishment. The events in it are chronicled by Buccmaster, a brutally unreliable narrator, in an adapted version of old English. At first the prospect seems unreadably off-putting; within twenty pages you get the hang of it; by thirty the suddenly fluent reader is immersed entirely in the mental and geographical contours of the era. But it works the other way too: we are seeing-and feeling and hearing-the living roots of Englishness." -Geoff Dyer "Extraordinary." -Philip Pullman "Reading [ The Wake ] is to be immersed in the past and in a story in a way that I haven't really felt since childhood . . . The most glorious experience I've had with a book in years." -Lucy Mangan, The Guardian
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