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Il monumentale racconto di un singolo giorno a Raintree, immaginaria contea dell'Indiana, nel quale si intrecciano molti dei momenti salienti della storia americana. La vita di John Wickliff Shawnessy, insegnante cinquantenne e aspirante scrittore, si alterna alla Guerra civile, al dibattito sulla schiavitù, alla Rivoluzione industriale, in un'atmosfera sognante e vivida che minuto dopo minuto compone un classico da molti indicato come il vero "grande romanzo americano", opera prima di un autore che Pablo Neruda paragonò a Melville, Whitman, Dreiser e Wolfe. Di questo fortunato romanzo venne realizzata nel 1957 una celebre versione cinematografica con Montgomery Clift ed Elizabeth Taylor dal titolo "L'albero della vita".
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- Pagine: 563
- Data di uscita: 03-10-2019
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"Raintree County" is an American version of Tolstoy's "War and Peace". I've actually read "War and Peace". Lockridge's "Raintree County" rises to that level--and, in my estimation--surpasses it. I love the Russians--Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev. And I love Walt Whitman and Ross Lockridge for the sa Leggi tutto
This is a hard book to review: it will definitely not be everybody's cup of tea. I had started it once years before, then set it aside, and finally read it at a point in my life when I had the time and the patience. It is massive! But I've never read anything at all like it. It's about America and A Leggi tutto
It may seem odd to be writing a review of a book written more than 60 years ago. In my case, the book is vibrant and meaningful. Raintree County is set in a mythical part of Indiana close to where I grew up, in Bloomington. The author, Ross Lockridge Jr. lived just down the street from my family. He Leggi tutto
The saying that it is not the destination but the path comes to mind when I think of this book. Johnny's attempt to find the mythical raintree, from which flows endless prosperity is the destination; however, it is the path, strewn with prototypes from American history, that stand out most in my min Leggi tutto
Some reviewer wrote that the author knew a lot of words and used them all in Raintree County. It's true, on occasion he could have benefited from a more careful editor, but with the exception of a few tedious passages, I was very happy with this novel. It was creative, interesting, and thoughtful. T Leggi tutto
This gets a mention (or two or three) in Thomas Mallon's excellent novel about the year 1948, DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. I've read bits and pieces of RAINTREE COUNTY, but the reason I know anything at all about it is that, sometime in the 1970s a dual biography of its author and the author of MISTER ROBE Leggi tutto
There's a review already here by Sonnetal (sorry if I spelled this incorrectly) but it says it all. This is one of the GREAT American novels and it's been neglected. Lockridge killed himself in despair only two months after it was published, and selling well. His publisher had cut the extended dream Leggi tutto
Raise your hand if you have heard of Raintree County by Ross Lockridge, Jr.? I hadn't until Jared Carter handed me a copy of the book a few months ago. I very much wish I had found this book earlier, though, perhaps, I may not have enjoyed it as much (I did not really appreciate Moby-Dick until well Leggi tutto
This forgotten beauty is close enough to the Great American Novel for me. It has everything such a idea contains: a sweeping look at America's most turbulent time on its own shores, a tremendous love story, glorious writing shot through with poetry, a mystical center that ought to lie at every story Leggi tutto
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