05300cam a2200589 4500 240250035 TxAuBib 20140811120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385352864 0385352867 B00IHMEAYA Amazon 362230b7-a1df-44c1-8d5e-7b039acae454 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1556682 OverDrive (Product ID) 237108 1556682 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Flanagan, Richard, 1961- The Narrow Road to the Deep North [Libby eBook] : A novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2122kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<b>Winner of the Man Booker Prize</b><br /> <br /> <b>"Nothing since Cormac McCarthy's <i>The Road</i> has shaken me like this." --<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br /> <br /> <b>From the author of the acclaimed <i>Gould's Book of Fish,</i> a magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.</b><br /> <br /> August, 1943: Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. His life, in a brutal Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway, is a daily struggle to save the men under his command. Until he receives a letter that will change him forever.<br /> <br /> A savagely beautiful novel about the many forms of good and evil, of truth and transcendence, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost. HTML:"<i>The Narrow Road to the Deep North</i> is a big, magnificent novel of passion and horror and tragic irony. Its scope, its themes and its people all seem to grow richer and deeper in significance with the progress of the story, as it moves to its extraordinary resolution. It's by far the best new novel I've read in ages.". Patrick McGrath, auth. "It is the story of Dorrigo, as one man among many POWs in the Asian jungle, that is the beating heart of this book: an excruciating, terrifying, life-altering story that is an indelible fictional testament to the prisoners there.". HTML:Michiko Kakutani, <i>New York Times</i>. HTML:"Captivating . . . This is a classic work of war fiction from a world-class writer . . . Nothing since Cormac McCarthy's <i>The Road</i> has shaken me like this.". HTML:Ron Charles, <i>Washington Post</i>. "Homeric . . . Flanagan's feel for language, history's persistent undercurrent, and subtle detail sets his fiction apart. There isn't a false note in this book.". HTML:<i>Irish Times</i>. "I suspect that on rereading, this magnificent novel will seem even more intricate, more carefully and beautifully constructed.". HTML:<i>New York Times Book Review</i>. HTML:"Nothing could have prepared us for this immense achievement . . . <i>The Narrow Road to the Deep North</i> is beyond comparison.". HTML:<i>The Australian</i>. "A supple meditation on memory, trauma, and empathy that is also a sublime war novel . . . Pellucid, epic, and sincerely touching.". HTML:<i>Publishers Weekly</i>. "A symphony of tenderness and love, a moving and powerful story that captures the weight and breadth of a life . . . A masterpiece.". HTML:<i>The Guardian</i>. "Some years, very good books win the Man Booker Prize, but this year a masterpiece has won it.". A.C. Grayling, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2014. "Elegantly wrought, measured, and without an ounce of melodrama, Flanagan's novel is nothing short of a masterpiece.". HTML:<i>Financial Times</i>. "A novel of extraordinary power, deftly told and hugely affecting. A classic in the making.". HTML:<i>The Observer</i>. "A moving and necessary work of devastating humanity and lasting significance.". HTML:<i>Seattle Times</i>. HTML:"Richard Flanagan has written a sort of Australian <i>War and Peace</i>.". Alan Cheuse, NPR. "A devastatingly beautiful novel.". HTML:<i>The Sunday Times</i> (London.) "The book Richard Flanagan was born to write.". HTML:<i>The Economist</i>. "Exhilarating . . . Life affirming.". HTML:<i>Sydney Morning Herald</i>. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. The New York Times Best Seller List. Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Notable Books for Adults. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-11 10:13:24. http://slc.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=362230b7-a1df-44c1-8d5e-7b039acae454 https://samples.overdrive.com/narrow-road-to-362230?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/narrow-road-to-362230?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/narrow-road-to-362230?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)