Philipp Meyer

Du grand art.Page des librairesUne petite ville de Pennsylvanie, jadis haut lieu de la sidérurgie, désormais à l’agonie. Isaac, vingt ans, est désormais seul pour s’occuper de son père invalide, sans

Eli McCullough, le Colonel, marqué à vie par trois années de séquestration chez les Comanches, prend part à la conquête de l''Ouest avant de s''engager dans la guerre de Sécession et de bâtir un empi

An American voice reminiscent of Steinbeck - a debut novel on friendship, loyalty, and love, centering on a murder in a dying Pennsylvania steel town, from the bestselling author of THE SON, now a major TV series. Isaac is the smartest kid in town, left behind to care for his sick father after his mothercommitssuicide and his sisterLee moves away. Now Isaac wants out too.Not even his best friend, Billy Poe, can stand in his way: broad-shouldered Billy, always ready for a fight, still living in his mother's trailer. Then, on the very day of Isaac's leaving, something happens that changes the friends' fates and tests the loyalties of their friendship and those of their lovers, families, and the town itself. Evoking John Steinbeck's novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, American Rust is an extraordinarily moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendance, and the power of love and friendship to redeem us.'A startlingly mature and impressive debut' KATE ATKINSON 'Darkly disturbing and darkly compelling' PATRICIA CORNWELL 'Written with considerable dramatic intensity and pace' Colm Toibin 'A masterpiece. The best book to come out of America since The Road' CHRIS CLEAVE

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING JEFF DANIELS AND MAURA TIERNEY An American voice reminiscent of Steinbeck a debut novel on friendship, loyalty, and love, centering on a murder in a dying Pennsylvania steel town, from the bestselling author of THE SON.Isaac is the smartest kid in town, left behind to care for his sick father after his mother dies by suicide and his sister Lee moves away. Now Isaac wants out too. Not even his best friend, Billy Poe, can stand in his way: broad-shouldered Billy, always ready for a fight, still living in his mothers trailer. Then, on the very day of Isaacs leaving, something happens that changes the friends fates and tests the loyalties of their friendship and those of their lovers, families, and the town itself. Evoking John Steinbecks novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, American Rust is an extraordinarily moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence, and the power of love and friendship to redeem us.A startlingly mature and impressive debutKATE ATKINSONDarkly disturbing and darkly compellingPATRICIA CORNWELLWritten with considerable dramatic intensity and paceCOLM TOIBINA masterpiece. The best book to come out of America since The RoadCHRIS CLEAVE

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES starring Pierce Brosnan and co-written by Philipp Meyer The critically acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling epic, a saga of land, blood and power, follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the oil booms of the 20th century. Eli McCullough is just twelve years old when a marauding band of Comanche storm his Texas homestead, brutally murder his mother and sister and take him captive. Despite their torture and cruelty, Eli - against all odds - adapts to life with the Comanche, learning their ways and language, taking on a new name, finding a place as the adopted son of the bands chief and fighting their wars against not only other Indians but white men too, which complicates his sense of loyalty, his promised vengeance and his very understanding of self. But when disease, starvation and westward expansion finally decimate the Comanche, Eli is left alone in a world in which he belongs nowhere, neither white nor Indian, civilized nor fully wild. Deftly interweaving Elis story with those of his son Peter and his great-granddaughter JA, The Son maps the legacy of Elis ruthlessness, his drive to power and his lifelong status as an outsider, even as the McCullough family rises to become one of the richest in Texas, a ranching and oil dynasty that is as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim. Yet, like all empires, the McCulloughs must eventually face the consequences of their choices. Panoramic, deeply evocative and utterly transporting, The Son is a masterpiece American novel - part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story - that combines the narrative prowess of Larry McMurtry with the knife-edge sharpness of Cormac McCarthy.Stunning ... a book that for once really does deserve to be called a masterpieceKate AtkinsonMagnificent ... McCarthys Border Trilogy is a point of reference, as is There Will Be Blood, but it is not fanciful to be reminded of certain passages from Moby-Dick - its that goodThe Times Brilliant ... a wonderful novelLionel Shriver

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A TV Series on AMC starring Pierce Brosnan and co-written by Philipp Meyer.Now in paperback, the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling epic, a multi-generational family saga of land, blood, and power that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the oil booms of the 20th century.Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching examination of the bloody price of power, The Son is a gripping and utterly transporting American Western novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American west with rare emotional acuity, even as it presents an intimate portrait of one family across two centuries.Eli McCullough is just twelve-years-old when a marauding band of Comanche storm his Texas homestead and brutally murder his mother and sister, taking him as a captive. Despite their torture and cruelty, Eliagainst all oddsadapts to life with the Comanche, learning their ways, their language, taking on a new name, finding a place as the adopted son of the chief of the band, and fighting their wars against not only other Indians, but white men, too-complicating his sense of loyalty, his promised vengeance, and his very understanding of self. But when disease, starvation, and westward expansion finally decimate the Comanche, Eli is left alone in a world in which he belongs nowhere, neither white nor Indian, civilized or fully wild.Deftly interweaving Elis story with those of his son, Peter, and his great-granddaughter, JA, this sprawling Texas historical fiction explores the legacy of Elis ruthlessness, his drive to power, and his life-long status as an outsider, even as the McCullough family rises to become one of the richest in Texas, a ranching-and-oil dynasty of unsurpassed wealth and privilege.Harrowing, panoramic, and deeply evocative, this epic Texas novel is a fully realized masterwork in the greatest tradition of the American canon-an unforgettable novel that combines the narrative prowess of Larry McMurtry with the knife edge sharpness of Cormac McCarthy.

NOW A HIT STREAMING SERIES A bold, absorbing novel (The New York Times Book Review) of the lost American dream, the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love that arise from its loss, and two young men, bound to their hometown, who crave an escape.Powerful . . . gripping . . . in the tradition that stretches from Ernest Hemingway to Cormac McCarthy.The Washington PostA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Economist, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Newsweek, Kansas City Star, Idaho Statesman Left alone to care for his aging father after his mother dies by suicide and his sister escapes to Yale, Isaac English longs for a life beyond his hometown, a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town. But when he finally sets out to leave for good, accompanied by his temperamental best friend, former high school football star Billy Poe, they are caught up in a terrible act of violence that changes their lives forever.Evoking John Steinbecks novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, American Rust takes us into the contemporary American heartland at a moment of profound unrest and uncertainty about the future. It is a dark but lucid vision, a moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence and the power of love and friendship to redeem us.

Vaste fresque de lAmérique de 1850 à nos jours, Le Fils de Philipp Meyer, finaliste du prestigieux prix Pulitzer 2014, est porté par trois personnages, trois générations dune famille texane, les McCu

Una gran novela americana. Un clásico instantáneo. El libro en el que se basa la nueva serie de Pierce Brosnan, The Son.«Una palabra: extraordinario. El hijo se afianza dentro del canon de las grande

El valle del óxido, la novela que situó a Philipp Meyer, autor de El hijo, en primera línea del panorama literario norteamericano, es la historia de dos amigos que sueñan con un mundo mejor, más allá de las fabricas abandonadas, el rio contaminado y los hogares vacios.En El valle del oxido, Philipp Meyer da voz a una comunidad del norte de Pensilvania, una decadente poblacion de la industria del acero que se encuentra rodeada de densos bosques. En este marco, y siguiendo la mas pura tradicion de las novelas de Steinbeck sobre la Gran Depresion, el autor explora la perdida del sueño americano.Isaac era uno de los chavales mas inteligentes de la localidad, al que le esperaba un futuro lleno de posibilidades si no se hubiera tenido que quedar al cuidado de su padre invalido. Ahora, a sus veinte años, ha decidido largarse por fin y ni siquiera su mejor amigo, Billy Poe, sera capaz de impedirselo. Poe, que siempre encuentra una buena excusa para desahogarse a puñetazos, dejo pasar su gran oportunidad como atleta universitario y sigue viviendo en la caravana de su madre.Los dos amigos estan atrapados en este triste lugar debido a su sentido de la responsabilidad y a la inercia, pero los dos sueñan con un mundo mejor, mas alla de las fabricas abandonadas, el rio contaminado y los hogares vacios. Mientras Poe acompaña a Isaac en su huida a lo largo de las vias del tren, un terrible incidente altera completamente sus planes, y su amistad y la familia seran puestos a prueba.El valle del oxido ha sido ganadora de Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Libro del año en TheEconomist y esta entre los mejores libros del año segun The Washington Post y The New York Times.Criticas: Retrata de forma asombrosa una sociedad paralizada [...]. Una novela llena de libertad y ambicion.TheGuardianEsta primera novela sorprende por la seguridad de su voz, su fuerza narrativa y la manera singular e intuitiva con que consigue distanciarse de los cliches provincianos.The TimesAdmiro la escritura de Meyer. De la misma forma que admiro a Hemingway. Meyer deberia ganar el Pulitzer.The New York TimesEl sueño americano muere y renace de nuevo. Ambientado en un hermoso pero desolado paisaje postindustrial con personajes irresistiblemente cautivadores, El valle del oxido es un debut impresionante y de una precoz madurez. Kate AtkinsonEsta escrito con un ritmo y una intensidad dramatica considerables. Alcanza una gran precision emocional, una conviccion profunda y detallada en la descripcion de sus personajes. Y evoca una sociedad amenazadora, un vasto mundo agonizante por la decadencia y la autodestruccion. Colm Toibin

Una gran novela americana. Un clásico instantáneo. El libro en el que se basa la nueva serie de Pierce Brosnan, The Son. «Una palabra: extraordinario. El hijo se afianza dentro del canon de las grand

El valle del óxido, la novela que situó a Philipp Meyer, autor de El hijo, en primera línea del panorama literario norteamericano, es la historia de dos amigos que sueñan con un mundo mejor, más allá de las fabricas abandonadas, el rio contaminado y los hogares vacios. En El valle del oxido, Philipp Meyer da voz a una comunidad del norte de Pensilvania, una decadente poblacion de la industria del acero que se encuentra rodeada de densos bosques. En este marco, y siguiendo la mas pura tradicion de las novelas de Steinbeck sobre la Gran Depresion, el autor explora la perdida del sueño americano. Isaac era uno de los chavales mas inteligentes de la localidad, al que le esperaba un futuro lleno de posibilidades si no se hubiera tenido que quedar al cuidado de su padre invalido. Ahora, a sus veinte años, ha decidido largarse por fin y ni siquiera su mejor amigo, Billy Poe, sera capaz de impedirselo. Poe, que siempre encuentra una buena excusa para desahogarse a puñetazos, dejo pasar su gran oportunidad como atleta universitario y sigue viviendo en la caravana de su madre. Los dos amigos estan atrapados en este triste lugar debido a su sentido de la responsabilidad y a la inercia, pero los dos sueñan con un mundo mejor, mas alla de las fabricas abandonadas, el rio contaminado y los hogares vacios. Mientras Poe acompaña a Isaac en su huida a lo largo de las vias del tren, un terrible incidente altera completamente sus planes, y su amistad y la familia seran puestos a prueba. El valle del oxido ha sido ganadora de Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Libro del año en The Economist y esta entre los mejores libros del año segun The Washington Post y The New York Times. Criticas:Retrata de forma asombrosa una sociedad paralizada [...]. Una novela llena de libertad y ambicion.TheGuardian Esta primera novela sorprende por la seguridad de su voz, su fuerza narrativa y la manera singular e intuitiva con que consigue distanciarse de los cliches provincianos.The Times Admiro la escritura de Meyer. De la misma forma que admiro a Hemingway. Meyer deberia ganar el Pulitzer.The New York Times El sueño americano muere y renace de nuevo. Ambientado en un hermoso pero desolado paisaje postindustrial con personajes irresistiblemente cautivadores, El valle del oxido es un debut impresionante y de una precoz madurez.Kate Atkinson Esta escrito con un ritmo y una intensidad dramatica considerables. Alcanza una gran precision emocional, una conviccion profunda y detallada en la descripcion de sus personajes. Y evoca una sociedad amenazadora, un vasto mundo agonizante por la decadencia y la autodestruccion.Colm Toibin