by Philipp Meyer · SIMON SCHUSTER · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780857209443
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«The Son» is the historical novel by Philipp Meyer, published by Simon & Schuster in paperback (561 pages, in English).
The action spans 150 years and five generations of the McCullough family, from pioneer settlers to oil magnates. It begins with Eli's capture by the Comanches in 1849 and then follows his son Peter and his great-niece Jeannie, interweaving three voices in a saga of frontier, power and survival.
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2014 and winner of the Writers' League of Texas Book Award in the fiction category.
For those seeking a historical family saga set in Texas, with violence, ambition and survival on the frontier.
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.
