This Strange Eventful History : A Novel
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton and Company, 2024.
Format
Book
ISBN
9780393635041
Physical Desc
428 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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West Greenwich (Louttit) - Adult New Books | FIC MES | Checked Out | June 11, 2024 |
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East Greenwich - New Books | FIC HEN | Checked Out | June 7, 2024 |
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton and Company, 2024.
Language
English
ISBN
9780393635041
Notes
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05/14/24 Pub. date
Description
Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state-separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This Strange Eventful History, told with historical sweep, is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of Franois and Denise, devoted siblings connected by their family's strangeness; of Franois's union with Barbara, a woman so culturally different they can barely comprehend one another; of Chloe, the result of that union, who believes that telling these buried stories will bring them all peace. Inspired by stories of her own family's history, Claire Messud animates her characters' rich interior lives amidst the social and political upheaval of a recently vanished world. As profoundly intimate as it is expansive, This Strange Eventful History is "a tour de force . . . one of those rare novels which a reader doesn't merely read but lives through with the characters" (Yiyun Li).
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Messud, C. (2024). This Strange Eventful History: A Novel . W.W. Norton and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Messud, Claire. 2024. This Strange Eventful History: A Novel. W.W. Norton and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Messud, Claire. This Strange Eventful History: A Novel W.W. Norton and Company, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Messud, Claire. This Strange Eventful History: A Novel W.W. Norton and Company, 2024.
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