Blind Sight: A Novel
分类: 图书,进口原版,Literature & Fiction（文学与虚构类）,Genre Fiction（类型小说）,
品牌: Meg Howrey
基本信息出版社:Vintage (2012年9月4日)丛书名:Vintage Contemporaries平装:304页正文语种:英语ISBN:0307739295条形码:9780307739292商品重量:236 gASIN:0307739295您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介This spellbinding story introduces the unforgettable seventeen-year-old narrator, Luke Prescott, who has been brought up in a bohemian matriarchy by his divorced New Age mother, a religious grandmother, and two precocious half-sisters. Having spent a short lifetime swinging agreeably between the poles of Eastern mysticism and New England Puritanism, Luke is fascinated by the new fields of brain science and believes in having evidence for his beliefs. “Without evidence,” he declares, “you just have hope, which is nice, but not reliable.” Luke is writing his college applications when his father—a famous television star whom he never knew—calls and invites him to Los Angeles for the summer. Luke accepts and is plunged into a world of location shooting, celebrity interviews, glamorous parties, and premieres. As he begins to know the difference between his father’s public persona and his private one, Luke finds himself sorting through his own personal mythology.
By the end of the summer Luke thinks he has found the answers he’s been seeking, only to discover that the differences between truth and belief are not always easy to spot, and that evidence can be withheld: when Luke returns home, his mother reveals something she knows will change everything for him.
WithBlind Sight, Meg Howrey gives us a smart, funny, and deeply moving story about truth versus belief, about what we do and don’t tell ourselves—with the result, as Luke says, that we don’t always know what we know.
From the Hardcover edition.媒体推荐“An engaging first novel filled with the nuance and yearnings of adolescence.”
—Marisha Pessl, author ofSpecial Topics in Calamity Physics
“Smart, witty, and wise, Meg Howrey’s impressive debut novel is a beautiful story that in its subtlety speaks to the fundamental questions of identity and love.”
—James Lapine, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the libretto forSunday in the Park with George
“A warm and surprising debut.”
—TheNew York Times
“The writing is smart and quick and will leave you reeling . . .Blind Sightis a book that must be read. Period.”
—Fusion
“Buoyantly comedic.”
—TheNew York Times Book Review
“An engagingly assured debut novel . . . Luke’s fresh gaze and untrammeled curiosity as he makes his way among conflicting loyalties, long-held secrets, and buried identities, make him an appealing scientist of human behavior.”
—Vogue
“A true gem.”
—Booklist
“Intelligent, engaging and often funny.”
—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Blind Sightpresents a refreshingly uncynical take on the messiness of family relationships.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“The novel resonates with authenticity . . . A wonderfully intriguing examination of what makes, and might break, a family.”
—Kirkus Reviews
From the Hardcover edition.