All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel
de Bryn Greenwood
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- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1250153964
- ISBN 13
- 9781250153968
- Librería
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Pleasant Hill, California, United States
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All The Ugly And Wonderful Things is the first novel by American author, Bryn Greenwood. Eight-year-old Wavonna Lee Quinn has seen more than her share of ugly things in her short life. Her father is a drug dealer with a meth lab just down the hill from the farmhouse where she lives with her mother. Valerie Quinn is drug-addled and self-absorbed, and Wavy spends her days trying to live something like a normal life while protecting her baby brother, Donal from Val's psychotic fluctuations.
In her life there are few wonderful things; one of those is lying in the nearby meadow looking up at the stars and naming the constellations. Which is what Wavy is doing when Jesse Joe Kellen, a mechanic on an errand for her father, comes riding along on his 1956 Panhead. Seeing ths blond angel at the side of the road causes Kellen to skid, wreck the bike and injure himself in the process. Wavy overcomes her usual reserve to help him.
From this accidental meeting, an unlikely friendship develops between these two. With her family's lifestyle, Wavy is exposed to violence, drugs and indiscriminate sex, so she has learned to keep a low profile, to eschew attachment to possessions, to trust no one. But Kellen, despite his appearance, despite his criminal history, despite his age (he's thirteen years older than her), earns her trust. In fact, he's the only person in her life who cares enough to see her nourished, schooled and protected from harm. But when Wavy reaches her teens, and the relationship changes tenor, it attracts unwelcome attention with tragic consequences.
Greenwood uses multiple narrators to present her story, and these give many points of view, but from Kellen and Wavy's perspectives, the relationship can be seen as genuine and pure. Greenwood portrays her characters skilfully, and she conveys the sense of time and place and the prevalent social attitudes with consummate ease. Her descriptive prose is often exquisite. This is a tale that is likely to polarise readers, emotional and thought-provoking. A brilliant debut.
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- Librería
- Friends Book Store (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 265888
- Título
- All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel
- Autor
- Bryn Greenwood
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Used - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1250153964
- ISBN 13
- 9781250153968
- Editorial
- A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin
- Fecha de publicación
- October 2017
- Páginas
- 432
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction;
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