The Forrests Tapa blanda - 2012

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“[Perkins’s] hypnotically beautiful prose sculpts the simplicity of the childhood-to-deathbed plot of one woman’s ordinary existence into something extraordinary. . . . There’s something decidedly Woolfian in Perkins’s narrow focus and her episodic and fragmentary style.”
—The Daily Beast

“Emily Perkins' sumptuous new book, The Forrests, is a novel to savour slowly: line by line, character by character, revelation by revelation. Within a few pages I felt I was in the company of a contemporary Katherine Mansfield or Virginia Woolf.” 
—The New Zealand Herald
 
“Perkins is a writer who takes us completely into the moment . . .”
—The Sunday Times
 
“Between the short story and the novel, Perkins gets the best of both worlds. It is a daring experiment that comes off, as safe and assured, almost inevitable, as if this is the only way such a story could be written.”
—The Sydney Morning Herald

“To read any page of Emily Perkins’s new novel The Forrests is like swapping your ancient VHS player for the latest high-definition Blu-ray disc. Where other novelists approximate, Perkins renders her action with pin-sharp accuracy.”
—The Sunday Times

“Perkins writes with soft beauty and brings out both the serenity and the strains of growing up, growing old and facing the lives we’ve made.”
—Kirkus Reviews
 
“. . . Perkins knows how to artfully reveal her characters’ inner machinations as they cope with whatever comes their way.”
—Publishers Weekly