by Philipp Meyer · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253067931
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«Le fils» is the historical novel by Philipp Meyer, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (792 pages, in French).
The novel follows the McCullough family in Texas from 1850 to the present across three generations. The voices of Eli, Peter and Jeanne Anne narrate the rise of a cattle empire, clashes with the Comanches, the Mexican Revolution and the oil boom, with ambition, violence and family inheritance as central themes.
Original title: The Son. French translation by Sarah Gurcel. French edition published on 30 March 2016. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Writers' League of Texas Book Award.
For readers of family and historical sagas set in the American West and novels about the building of the United States.
Philipp Meyer is an American fiction writer and the author of the novels American Rust and The Son, as well as short stories published in The New Yorker and elsewhere. Meyer also created and produced the AMC television show based on his novel. He won the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, received a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship and was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize. He won the 2014 Lucien Barrière prize in France and the 2015 Prix Littérature-Monde Prize in France. In 2017 he was named a Chevalier (Knight) in France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
