Eleven Days
$39.27
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
8 April 2014
Summary
‘An extraordinary accomplishment…’ - Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds
‘A compelling story made memorable by the strength of its elegant prose…’ Toni Morrison‘Think HOMELAND in fiction form…’ - Red MagazineEleven Days is, at its heart, the story of a mother and a son.It begins in May 2011, when Sara’s son Jason has been missing for nine days in the aftermath o…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444776263 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444776266 |
| Author: | Lea Carpenter |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | Two Roads |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 8 April 2014 |
| Weight: | 196g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 130mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
Lea Carpenter’s Eleven Days is an extraordinary accomplishment. Written with an elegant precision, this book is at its core a story about love: between a mother and a son, a son and a father, and a special group of men for each other and the imperfect country they choose to serve. I highly recommend it. - Kevin Powers, bestselling author of The Yellow Birds
…full of insight and grace. - Sydney Morning Herald…good writing and a great story. - Weekend Australian…a beautifully written debut. - Herald Sun Melbourne[An] earnest first novel … Carpenter provides a convincing portrait of an exclusive and exclusively male military subculture, and of the men formed and deformed by it. - The New York TimesCarpenter’s intelligence and sincerity find powerful expression in the novel’s sophisticated structure… This story reminds us that each of these warriors, no matter how brave and tough and deadly, is still some woman’s beloved son. - The Washington PostThe nature of courage, sacrifice, love and heroism are all considered in this powerful … debut. For all its Hollywood sheen, it is as determined to educate as it is to entertain. It’s a mission that Lea Carpenter executes coolly in precise and elegant prose. - The Daily Mail…somber yet moving… an ode to manhood, to motherhood, to the modern warrior and perhaps most compelling an ode to heroics. - Huffington PostLea Carpenter
Lea Carpenter graduated from Princeton and has an MBA from Harvard. She was Founding Editor for Francis Ford Coppola’s literary magazine, Zoetrope as well as Deputy Publisher of The Paris Review until 2005. She lives in New York with her husband and their two sons where she produces programming for the New York Public Library. This is her first novel.
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