Hannah Tinti

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

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Produktbeschreibung

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A gripping American-on-the-run thriller . . . a brilliant coming-of-age tale and a touching exploration of father-daughter relationships."-Newsweek "One part Quentin Tarantino, one part Scheherazade, and twelve parts wild innovation."-Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth NAMED ONE OF PASTE'S BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Washington Post • Paste Samuel Hawley isn't like the other fathers in Olympus, Massachusetts. A loner who spent years living on the run, he raised his beloved daughter, Loo, on the road, moving from motel to motel, always watching his back. Now that Loo's a teenager, Hawley wants only to give her a normal life. In his late wife's hometown, he finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at the local high school. Growing more and more curious about the mother she never knew, Loo begins to investigate. Soon, everywhere she turns, she encounters the mysteries of her parents' lives before she was born. This hidden past is made all the more real by the twelve scars her father carries on his body. Each scar is from a bullet Hawley took over the course of his criminal career. Each is a memory: of another place on the map, another thrilling close call, another moment of love lost and found. As Loo uncovers a history that's darker than she could have known, the demons of her father's past spill over into the present-and together both Hawley and Loo must face a reckoning yet to come. Praise for The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley "A master class in literary suspense."-The Washington Post "Tinti depicts brutality and compassion with exquisite sensitivity, creating a powerful overlay of love and pain."-The New Yorker "Hannah Tinti's beautifully constructed second novel . . . uses the scars on Hawley's body-all twelve bullet wounds, one by one-to show who he is, what he's done, and why the past chases and clings to him with such tenacity."-The Boston Globe "The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley is an adventure epic with the deeper resonance of myth. . . . Tinti exhibits an aptitude for shining a piercing light into the corners of her characters' hearts and minds."-O: The Oprah Magazine

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Young Readers Group
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 135mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9780812989908
• ISBN-10: 0812989902
• Artikelnr.: 48889260

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Hannah Tinti

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Can a man be both a violent criminal and a good father? Imagine a Quentin Tarantino movie crossed with a John Green novel, and you ll have a sense of what this coming-of-age novel is like. Entertainment Weekly

Tinti depicts brutality and compassion with exquisite sensitivity, creating a powerful overlay of love and pain. The New Yorker

The book [has] an irresistible velocity that Ms. Tinti sustains to the end. The Wall Street Journal

Tinti has established herself as one of our great storytellers. She draws you in with this book, and it s really difficult to get away. Rolling Stone

A shoot-em-up, a love story and a mystery, this is one heartwarming feast of a book. People

The term literary thriller is almost an oxymoron. It s the writerly equivalent of threading a needle while riding on a rollercoaster, requiring attention to character and fine prose while hurtling from one near-disaster to another. Only a few writers can pull it off, and Hannah Tinti is one of them. . . . The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley is a gripping father-daughter road trip where the bad guys are never far behind. . . . Tarantino-like in its plot twists, action, and violence, the novel sweeps across the country and back and forth in time. Its structure feels as meticulously crafted as a matchstick Taj Mahal. Interview

Tinti makes each of her crime scenes wildly different yet equally suspenseful. As skillful as she is, she never romanticizes her bad actors. What most deeply interests her is the stumbling, fumbling humanity that results in bad actions. . . . She fuses urgent, vibrant storytelling with a keen understanding of broken people desperate to be whole. Newsday

Even before the official release of The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley in March, early readers deemed it worthy of excitement. . . . At once a coming-of-age adventure, a love story and a literary thriller. Time

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley is a miraculous accomplishment in genre-bending: Not only a gripping American-on-the-run thriller, it s also a brilliant coming-of-age tale and a touching exploration of father-daughter relationships. Regardless of what your reading tastes are, there s something here for absolutely everyone. Newsweek

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley is an adventure epic with the deeper resonance of myth. . . . Tinti exhibits an aptitude for shining a piercing light into the corners of her characters hearts and minds. Her ability to lay bare their passions, portraying their vulnerabilities and violent urges with equal insight, leaves the reader at once shaken and moved. O: The Oprah Magazine

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley is one part Quentin Tarantino, one part Scheherazade, and twelve parts wild innovation. Hannah Tinti proves herself to be an old-fashioned storyteller of the highest order. Ann Patchett, author of Commonwealth

[We are] carried by Tinti's seductive prose. She has a deep feeling for the passage of time and its effect on character. And when it's appropriate, she can use her vivid language to express the ripping depth of human pain. As this strikingly symphonic novel enters its last movement, the final bars remind us that all of the painful wounds that humans can endure, the worse are self-inflicted. New York Times Book Review