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Bright Air Black
de Vann, David
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Used; Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0434023345
- ISBN 13
- 9780434023349
- Librería
-
Milton Keynes , Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
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El Mar 12 2017, un lector dijo:
4.5 stars
"One of the men comes to the stern near Medea to fish in last light. A rough net weighted with stones…. He… flings the net overboard, beautiful pattern in flight, a practiced throw, the stones swirling out a perfect circle just as they hit the water… The surface becomes silver, opaque, molten, as if the sea could be reforged every day, great ingot of tin melted down each night, this fisherman casting his net to capture impurities"
Bright Air Black is the fifth novel by American author, David Vann, and is a retelling of the story of Medea. Vann begins his story with Medea, Jason and the Argonauts fleeing Colchis on the Argo, Golden Fleece in their possession, her father Aeetes in pursuit, Medea throwing pieces of her murdered brother Aspyrtus overboard to delay her father's progress.
Their flight from Colchis to Iolcus, taking the daring step of sailing at night, is fraught with danger, both from Aeetes and the elements: "Fear living in close. In the hull and mast that might break, in the rudders, in the air that somewhere holds land, but mostly in the water. Rock and every creature unknown. No limit to the size of what can grow below. All animals on land known but always something new coming from the depths"
The sailors are wary of Medea, priestess of Hekate, rightly so, but her power over them holds no sway once they reach Iolcus and meet Pelias, the king Jason intends to usurp. Her grandfather may be Helios the sun, but Vann presents the infamous Medea, magical and monstrous, as a wholly human woman, if a determined, intelligent, tenacious and vengeful one.
Vann's descriptive prose, as always, is stunning: "The sail no inanimate thing. Terrible in high wind, rigid and merciless and powerful beyond imagining, a thing of fear and will. But even now, in lighter winds, filled with desire, a restlessness, capable even of regret and sorrow, falling along an edge, hunching down, refilling but not entirely, some cost to the past. Only with no air, when it hangs fully slack, does it seem like linen. At all other times, this is impossible to believe", and his personal experience with sailing is apparent on every page.
Vann's evocative title comes from Euripides's Medea; the beautiful cover shows the type of ship that Argo would have been; his interpretation of this legend from over three thousand years ago is powerful, enthralling and atmospheric.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Brit Books Ltd
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 3787759
- Título
- Bright Air Black
- Autor
- Vann, David
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Used; Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0434023345
- ISBN 13
- 9780434023349
- Editorial
- William Heinemann
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2017
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