I had put off reading this book for years because the movie version with Paul Newman had resonated with me for a long time. I wanted to come to it as fresh as I could. I've read a lot of Russo, and I think this is him at the peak of his powers. Deeply imagined characters who are true to life in a run-down world that is too true to life. I have no trouble believing these people lived and breathed and carried on their lives in a world as rich as mine.
My first reading of Stuart, and I'm hooked. He has created characters who are real and inhabit stories that, while far different from my own, are tangible and credible. I felt every sensation they did, every emotion. This is story telling by a master.
A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart's first novel Shuggie Bain, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, is one of the most successful literary debuts of the century so far. Published or forthcoming in forty territories, it has sold more than one million copies worldwide. Now Stuart returns with Young Mungo, his extraordinary second novel. Both a page-turner and literary tour de force, it is a vivid portrayal of working-class life and a deeply moving and highly suspenseful story of the dangerous…
Rushdie writes with a voice that is in complete control of the story. This is a collection of longish short stories, and they show the range and imagination of the author. Each character was credible in context (even the ghost) and each story setting was real. For someone interested in trying Salman Rushdie, this is a good place to start.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From internationally renowned, award-winning author Salman Rushdie, a spellbinding exploration of life, death, and what comes into focus at the proverbial eleventh hour of life“An inventive and engrossing collection of stories which, though death-tinged, are never doom-laden. With luck this master writer has more tales to tell.”—Los Angeles TimesA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEARRushdie turns his extraordinary imagination to life’s final act with a quintet of stories that span the three countries in which he has made his work—India, England, and America—and feature an unforgettable cast of characters.“In the South” introduces a pair of quarrelsome…
This is a novel about fathers and sons, how they find ways to love each other despite the challenges and differences between them. It is also a story about a cabin in the Ozarks where the men of the family can come to drop their defenses and know they are safe. One man is a reluctant father of an adoring son. One is the adoring father of a reluctant son. And one is a son with a secret he is afraid to tell.
