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Greenwood: A Novel
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781984822000
- Book Title
- Greenwood : a Novel
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Crown/Archetype
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Family Life, Literary, Science Fiction / General, Historical
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 27.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 528 Pages
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A magnificent generational saga that charts a family's rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, from one of Canada's most acclaimed novelists Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize - "A rugged, riveting novel . . . This superb family saga will satisfy fans of Richard Powers's The Overstory ."-- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "There are plenty of visionary moments laced into Christie's] shape-shifting narrative. . . . Greenwood penetrates to the core of things."-- The New York Times Book Review It's 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, sprawled on his back after a workplace fall, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father's once vast and violent timber empire. It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is alone, as usual, in his maple-syrup camp squat, when he hears the cries of an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in the web of a crime, secrets, and betrayal that will cling to his family for decades. And throughout, there are trees: a steady, silent pulse thrumming beneath Christie's effortless sentences, working as a guiding metaphor for withering, weathering, and survival. A shining, intricate clockwork of a novel, Greenwood is a rain-soaked and sun-dappled story of the bonds and breaking points of money and love, wood, and blood--and the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light.
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Publisher
Crown/Archetype
ISBN-10
1984822004
ISBN-13
9781984822000
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038400817
Product Key Features
Book Title
Greenwood : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Family Life, Literary, Science Fiction / General, Historical
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
528 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
27.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr9199.4.C48825g74
Reviews
"Ingeniously structured and with prose as smooth as beech bark, Michael Christie's Greenwood is as compulsive as it is profound. A sweeping intergenerational saga that explores trees and their roots--from the precious evergreens that become commodities in the entertainment business of the future to the intricately tangled trees of family--all of it is dazzlingly delivered in a framework inspired by the actual growth rings of a tree. Every one of Greenwood 's characters burrowed their way into my heart. Beguilingly brilliant, timely, and utterly engrossing, Greenwood is one of my favorite reads in recent memory." --Kira Jane Buxton "Christie skillfully teases out the details in a page-turner of a saga that complements sylvan books such as Sometimes a Great Notion and The Overstory , one that closes with Jake's realization that, tangled lineage and all, a family is less a tree than 'a collection of individuals pooling their resources through intertwined roots.' Beguilingly structured, elegantly written: ecoapocalyptic but with hope that somehow we'll make it." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review), "Ingeniously structured and with prose as smooth as beech bark, Michael Christie's Greenwood is as compulsive as it is profound. A sweeping intergenerational saga that explores trees and their roots--from the precious evergreens that become commodities in the entertainment business of the future to the intricately tangled trees of family--all of it is dazzlingly delivered in a framework inspired by the actual growth rings of a tree. Every one of Greenwood 's characters burrowed their way into my heart. Beguilingly brilliant, timely, and utterly engrossing, Greenwood is one of my favorite reads in recent memory." --Kira Jane Buxton, "Ingeniously structured and with prose as smooth as beech bark, Michael Christie's Greenwood is as compulsive as it is profound. A sweeping intergenerational saga that explores trees and their roots--from the precious evergreens that become commodities in the entertainment business of the future to the intricately tangled trees of family--all of it is dazzlingly delivered in a framework inspired by the actual growth rings of a tree. Every one of Greenwood 's characters burrowed their way into my heart. Beguilingly brilliant, timely, and utterly engrossing, Greenwood is one of my favorite reads in recent memory." --Kira Jane Buxton "Christie skillfully teases out the details in a page-turner of a saga that complements sylvan books such as Sometimes a Great Notion and The Overstory , one that closes with Jake's realization that, tangled lineage and all, a family is less a tree than 'a collection of individuals pooling their resources through intertwined roots.' Beguilingly structured, elegantly written: ecoapocalyptic but with hope that somehow we'll make it." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A rugged, riveting novel . . . This superb family saga will satisfy fans of Richard Powers's The Overstory while offering a convincing vision of potential ecological destruction." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review), "At once hypnotic and raging, dangerously real and brimming with hope, Greenwood is that most necessary epic that binds our human frailties to our planet's possibilities. Michael Christie tenderly rakes the past and paints a future without flinching. I read this book with my heart in my throat, in my hands, in my gut; I read this book heart-full." --Katy Simpson Smith, author of The Story of Land and Sea " Greenwood is brilliant. Michael Christie shows a cross section of one family's history, revealing their dark secrets, loves, losses, and the mark of an accident still visible four generations later. Year by year, page by page, the layers of this intricate and elegant novel build into an epic story that is completely absorbing. I had to cancel everything for this book because I couldn't stop reading." --Claire Cameron, author of The Last Neanderthal "Ingeniously structured and with prose as smooth as beech bark, Michael Christie's Greenwood is as compulsive as it is profound. Every one of Greenwood 's characters burrowed their way into my heart. Beguilingly brilliant, timely, and utterly engrossing, Greenwood is one of my favorite reads in recent memory." --Kira Jane Buxton, author of Hollow Kingdom "A time-hopping, globe-circling picaresque with apocalyptic themes . . . [Christie] broaches every kind of human valor, villainy and vulnerability: drug addiction, forbidden desires and laudable do-gooding, among others. He commands attention not through conservationist pieties but with the way his forest-killers and tree-loving zealots are equally off-kilter and contradiction-filled. . . . There are plenty of visionary moments laced into [Christie's] shape-shifting narrative. . . . Greenwood penetrates to the core of things." -- The New York Times Book Review "Christie skillfully teases out the details in a page-turner of a saga that complements sylvan books such as Sometimes a Great Notion and The Overstory . . . . Beguilingly structured, elegantly written: ecoapocalyptic but with hope that somehow we'll make it." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Rich with evocative descriptions of West Coast wilderness and anchored by a deep, visceral bond to the trees that sustain us all, Greenwood is a literary page-turner that manages to be both nostalgic and modern, personal and political, intimately human and big-picture historical. In an era of so much uncertainty, it is comforting to see novelists begin to work through the biggest issue of our age. And, in this case, convert our collective suffering into brilliant, beauty-filled art." -- Toronto Star, "At once hypnotic and raging, dangerously real and brimming with hope, Greenwood is that most necessary epic that binds our human frailties to our planet's possibilities. Michael Christie tenderly rakes the past and paints a future without flinching. I read this book with my heart in my throat, in my hands, in my gut; I read this book heart-full." --Katy Simpson Smith, author of The Story of Land and Sea " Greenwood is brilliant. Michael Christie shows a cross section of one family's history, revealing their dark secrets, loves, losses, and the mark of an accident still visible four generations later. Year by year, page by page, the layers of this intricate and elegant novel build into an epic story that is completely absorbing. I had to cancel everything for this book because I couldn't stop reading." --Claire Cameron, author of The Last Neanderthal "Ingeniously structured and with prose as smooth as beech bark, Michael Christie's Greenwood is as compulsive as it is profound. Every one of Greenwood 's characters burrowed their way into my heart. Beguilingly brilliant, timely, and utterly engrossing, Greenwood is one of my favorite reads in recent memory." --Kira Jane Buxton, author of Hollow Kingdom "Christie skillfully teases out the details in a page-turner of a saga that complements sylvan books such as Sometimes a Great Notion and The Overstory . . . . Beguilingly structured, elegantly written: ecoapocalyptic but with hope that somehow we'll make it." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Rich with evocative descriptions of West Coast wilderness and anchored by a deep, visceral bond to the trees that sustain us all, Greenwood is a literary page-turner that manages to be both nostalgic and modern, personal and political, intimately human and big-picture historical. In an era of so much uncertainty, it is comforting to see novelists begin to work through the biggest issue of our age. And, in this case, convert our collective suffering into brilliant, beauty-filled art." -- Toronto Star
Copyright Date
2020
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2019-026891
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Dewey Edition
23
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