Name: The Summer That Melted Everything
SKU: 49449335
Price: 26.62 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Tiffany McDaniel
ISBN: 9781250131676

portada The Summer That Melted Everything

Type

Physical Book

Author

Tiffany McDaniel

Publisher

St. Martin's Griffin

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3x14x2 cm

Weight

0.38 kg.

ISBN13

9781250131676

Synopsis "The Summer That Melted Everything"

The devil comes to Ohio in Tiffany McDaniel's breathtaking and heartbreaking literary debut novel, The Summer That Melted Everything. *Winner of The Guardian's 2016 Not the Booker Prize and the Ohioana Readers' Choice Award*Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Best Fiction and Best Debut"A wonderfully original, profoundly unsettling, deeply moving novel that delivers both the shock of fully realized reality and the deep resonance of parable...A remarkable debut." --Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain "A haunting Appalachian Gothic novel that calls into question the nature of good and evil." --Akron Beacon Journal Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984: the year a heat wave scorched Breathed, Ohio. The year he became friends with the devil. Sal seems to appear out of nowhere - a bruised and tattered thirteen-year-old boy claiming to be the devil himself answering an invitation. Fielding Bliss, the son of a local prosecutor, brings him home where he's welcomed into the Bliss family, assuming he's a runaway from a nearby farm town. When word spreads that the devil has come to Breathed, not everyone is happy to welcome this self-proclaimed fallen angel. Murmurs follow him and tensions rise, along with the temperature as an unbearable heat wave rolls into town right along with him. As strange accidents start to occur, riled by the feverish heat, some in the town start to believe that Sal is exactly who he claims to be. While the Bliss family wrestle with their own personal demons, a fanatic drives the town to the brink of a catastrophe that will change this sleepy Ohio backwater forever.

Tiffany McDaniel

(Author)

View Author's Page

Tiffany McDaniel es una autora estadounidense nacida en Ohio, conocida por su prosa poética y su habilidad para explorar temas oscuros como la pérdida, el dolor, la enfermedad mental y la violencia familiar. Criada en una zona rural del estado, gran parte de su obra se inspira en su entorno y en experiencias personales, lo que aporta una atmósfera intensa y melancólica a sus novelas.

Debutó con The Summer That Melted Everything (2016), una historia perturbadora que fue bien recibida por la crítica y ganó varios premios. Sin embargo, alcanzó mayor reconocimiento con Betty (2020), una novela basada en la vida de su madre, Betty Carpenter, que mezcla hechos reales con elementos de ficción. Betty fue aclamada internacionalmente por su sensibilidad, su fuerza narrativa y su retrato honesto de la pobreza, el racismo y el trauma infantil.

McDaniel también es poeta y artista visual, y ha dicho que escribe desde una edad temprana, guiada por la necesidad de dar voz a lo silenciado. Su estilo literario se caracteriza por un lirismo crudo y poderoso, con personajes complejos y profundamente humanos.

See less