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The Missing Hardcover Tim Gautreaux
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- EX-LIBRARY
- Publication Name
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- ISBN
- 9780307270153
- Book Title
- Missing
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary, Mystery & Detective / General
- Item Width
- 6.6in
- Item Weight
- 23.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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The author of The Clearing ("the finest American novel in a long, long time"-Annie Proulx) now surpasses himself with a story whose range and cast of characters is even broader, with the fate of a stolen child looming throughout. Sam Simoneaux's troopship docked in France just as World War I came to an end. Still, what he saw of the devastation there sent him back to New Orleans eager for a normal life and a job as a floorwalker in the city's biggest department store, and to start anew with his wife years after losing a son to illness. But when a little girl disappears from the store on his shift, he loses his job and soon joins her parents working on a steamboat plying the Mississippi and providing musical entertainment en route. Sam comes to suspect that on the downriver journey someone had seen this magical child and arranged to steal her away, and this quest leads him not only into this raucous new life on the river and in the towns along its banks but also on a journey deep into the Arkansas wilderness. Here he begins to piece together what had happened to the girl-a discovery that endangers everyone involved and sheds new light on the massacre of his own family decades before. Tim Gautreaux brings to vivid life the exotic world of steamboats and shifting currents and rough crowds, of the music of the twenties, of a nation lurching away from war into an uneasy peace at a time when civilization was only beginning to penetrate a hinterlands in which law was often an unknown force. The Missing is the story of a man fighting to redeem himself, of parents coping with horrific loss with only a whisper of hope to sustain them, of others for whom kidnapping is either only a job or a dream come true. The suspense-and the complicated web of violence that eventually links Sam to complete strangers-is relentless, urgently engaging and, ultimately, profoundly moving, the finest demonstration yet of Gautreaux's understanding of landscape, history, human travail, and hope.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307270157
ISBN-13
9780307270153
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70185573
Product Key Features
Book Title
Missing
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
6.6in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3557.A954m57 2009
Reviews
Praise for Tim Gautreaux'sThe Missing: "An exceptional novel...Gautreaux again displays fluent prose, accomplished storytelling, and strong characterizations in this paean to the indefatigability of the human spirit." Michele Leber, Booklist "Haunting and transient…a refreshingly candid voice, brimming with a lyrical intensity [and] raw beauty." Publishers Weekly, "Remarkable…Mr. Gautreaux has given us a compelling adventure tale with a moral center." Julia Reed,The Wall Street Journal "Moving and resonant…Gautreaux is an old-fashioned storyteller, a spinner of yarns with a moral…[He] has a mythic sense of plot, a keen ear for dialect and vivid powers of description." Malena Watrous,The New York Times Book Review "The Missingis Gautreaux's masterpiece, his most powerful novel to date." Susan Larson, New OrleansTimes-Picayune "Gautreaux's lyrical prose fairly soars…Jazz flows throughThe Missinglike another river. So too do nuance and ambiguity…[Gautreaux] has created a grand story with unconventional heft." Fred Grimm,The Miami Herald "Continually engaging…The Missingcarries us along as it branches and swells, as if inspired by the great river on which so much of this book takes place…If you've been complaining that nobody writes novels as they used to, this could be your book for the spring." Ron Charles,The Washington Post Book World "An exceptional novel...Gautreaux again displays fluent prose, accomplished storytelling, and strong characterizations in this paean to the indefatigability of the human spirit." Michele Leber, Booklist "Haunting and transient…a refreshingly candid voice, brimming with a lyrical intensity [and] raw beauty." Publishers Weekly, "That rare thing: a needful lesson that nourishes and delights." Laurel Maury, San Francisco Chronicle " The Missing has the impact of a book twice its length. It's a dramatic, theatrical meditation on law and lawlessness, guilt and the hollowness of vengeance [with] all the power, doomed inevitability and spiritual profundity of Conrad's Victory and Nostromo or Faulkner's Light in August ...The anticipation clutching your throat makes you race towards the novel's climax. Despite their wise and knowing humour, Gautreaux's novels seem created out of urgent moral duty, and the importance of reading The Missing is to learn that to live without hatred is our only true privilege." Alan Warner, The Guardian (UK) "Remarkable…Mr. Gautreaux has given us a compelling adventure tale with a moral center." Julia Reed, The Wall Street Journal "Moving and resonant…Gautreaux is an old-fashioned storyteller, a spinner of yarns with a moral…[He] has a mythic sense of plot, a keen ear for dialect and vivid powers of description." Malena Watrous, The New York Times Book Review " The Missing is Gautreaux's masterpiece, his most powerful novel to date." Susan Larson, New Orleans Times-Picayune "Gautreaux's lyrical prose fairly soars…Jazz flows through The Missing like another river. So too do nuance and ambiguity…[Gautreaux] has created a grand story with unconventional heft." Fred Grimm, The Miami Herald "Continually engaging… The Missing carries us along as it branches and swells, as if inspired by the great river on which so much of this book takes place…If you've been complaining that nobody writes novels as they used to, this could be your book for the spring." Ron Charles, The Washington Post Book World "An exceptional novel...Gautreaux again displays fluent prose, accomplished storytelling, and strong characterizations in this paean to the indefatigability of the human spirit." Michele Leber, Booklist "Haunting and transient…a refreshingly candid voice, brimming with a lyrical intensity [and] raw beauty." Publishers Weekly, "That rare thing: a needful lesson that nourishes and delights." Laurel Maury,San Francisco Chronicle "The Missinghas the impact of a book twice its length. It's a dramatic, theatrical meditation on law and lawlessness, guilt and the hollowness of vengeance [with] all the power, doomed inevitability and spiritual profundity of Conrad'sVictoryandNostromoor Faulkner'sLight in August...The anticipation clutching your throat makes you race towards the novel's climax. Despite their wise and knowing humour, Gautreaux's novels seem created out of urgent moral duty, and the importance of readingThe Missingis to learn that to live without hatred is our only true privilege." Alan Warner,The Guardian(UK) "Remarkable…Mr. Gautreaux has given us a compelling adventure tale with a moral center." Julia Reed,The Wall Street Journal "Moving and resonant…Gautreaux is an old-fashioned storyteller, a spinner of yarns with a moral…[He] has a mythic sense of plot, a keen ear for dialect and vivid powers of description." Malena Watrous,The New York Times Book Review "The Missingis Gautreaux's masterpiece, his most powerful novel to date." Susan Larson, New OrleansTimes-Picayune "Gautreaux's lyrical prose fairly soars…Jazz flows throughThe Missinglike another river. So too do nuance and ambiguity…[Gautreaux] has created a grand story with unconventional heft." Fred Grimm,The Miami Herald "Continually engaging…The Missingcarries us along as it branches and swells, as if inspired by the great river on which so much of this book takes place…If you've been complaining that nobody writes novels as they used to, this could be your book for the spring." Ron Charles,The Washington Post Book World "An exceptional novel...Gautreaux again displays fluent prose, accomplished storytelling, and strong characterizations in this paean to the indefatigability of the human spirit." Michele Leber, Booklist "Haunting and transient…a refreshingly candid voice, brimming with a lyrical intensity [and] raw beauty." Publishers Weekly, Praise for Tim Gautreaux'sThe Missing: "The Missingis Gautreaux's masterpiece, his most powerful novel to date." Susan Larson, New OrleansTimes-Picayune "Gautreaux's lyrical prose fairly soars…Jazz flows throughThe Missinglike another river. So too do nuance and ambiguity…[Gautreaux] has created a grand story with unconventional heft." Fred Grimm,The Miami Herald "Continually engaging…The Missingcarries us along as it branches and swells, as if inspired by the great river on which so much of this book takes place…If you've been complaining that nobody writes novels as they used to, this could be your book for the spring." Ron Charles,The Washington Post Book World "An exceptional novel...Gautreaux again displays fluent prose, accomplished storytelling, and strong characterizations in this paean to the indefatigability of the human spirit." Michele Leber, Booklist "Haunting and transient…a refreshingly candid voice, brimming with a lyrical intensity [and] raw beauty." Publishers Weekly, "Moving and resonant…Gautreaux is an old-fashioned storyteller, a spinner of yarns with a moral…[He] has a mythic sense of plot, a keen ear for dialect and vivid powers of description." Malena Watrous,The New York Times Book Review "The Missingis Gautreaux's masterpiece, his most powerful novel to date." Susan Larson, New OrleansTimes-Picayune "Gautreaux's lyrical prose fairly soars…Jazz flows throughThe Missinglike another river. So too do nuance and ambiguity…[Gautreaux] has created a grand story with unconventional heft." Fred Grimm,The Miami Herald "Continually engaging…The Missingcarries us along as it branches and swells, as if inspired by the great river on which so much of this book takes place…If you've been complaining that nobody writes novels as they used to, this could be your book for the spring." Ron Charles,The Washington Post Book World "An exceptional novel...Gautreaux again displays fluent prose, accomplished storytelling, and strong characterizations in this paean to the indefatigability of the human spirit." Michele Leber, Booklist "Haunting and transient…a refreshingly candid voice, brimming with a lyrical intensity [and] raw beauty." Publishers Weekly
Copyright Date
2009
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2008-046739
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