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North woods
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- **COMING SOON** COUNTRY PEOPLE, the joyous new novel from Daniel Mason. Pre-order now!🍃 A SPELLBINDING MASTERPIECE. READ IT ONCE, REMEMBER IT FOREVER. 🍃 🍃 A RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME 🍃 🍃 SHORTLISTED FOR THE IMPAC PRIZE 2025 🍃 'North Woods is a monumental achievement of polyphony and humanity. Relating the narrative of an entire country via a single plot of land, it sweeps the reader through hundreds of years and an array of protagonists with a deft, heartbreaking, idiosyncratic zeal' Maggie O'FarrellOVER FOUR CENTURIES,'This is a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic . . . The only constants are the land and Mason's genius' Washington PostA SINGLE HOUSE DEEP IN THE WOODS OF NEW ENGLAND'Dazzling . . . weaves a Cloud Atlas-style narrative of humanity under pressure and nature under threat . . . Brave and original . . . intimate and epic, playful and serious' Guardian IS HOME TO RUNAWAYS AND VISIONARIES, INSEPARABLE TWINS, A LOVELORN PAINTER, A DESPERATE MOTHER AND A RUTHLESS CON-MAN.'It seems almost a magic trick, the way in which Mason knits his lives into a single tale' Sunday TimesIT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE THE WORLD.'North Woods has been heaped with praise and hype, and deservedly so. This is a book that treats life as a miracle and demands the proper awe from its readers' The Times
- About The Author
- Daniel Mason is a doctor and author of The Piano Tuner (2002), A Far Country (2007), The Winter Soldier (2018), and A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth (2020), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His work has been translated into 28 languages, adapted for opera and the stage, and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His short stories and essays have been awarded two Pushcart Prizes, a National Magazine Award and an O. Henry Prize. He is an assistant professor in the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry. He currently lives in Palo Alto, CA.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781399809306
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- John Murray, (29 August 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 384
- Weight
- 309 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 196 x 128 x 34 mm
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