So Far Gone
A Novel
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- 22,99 €
Descrizione dell’editore
National Bestseller
Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize
"A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It's an American original."—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake
"Searing and sublime … Walter is a slyly adept social critic, and has clearly invested his protagonist with all of the outrage and heartbreak he himself feels about the dark course our world has taken ... What gets us all through … are novels like this one.” Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins—and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis’ True Grit—comes a hilarious, empathetic, and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren.
Rhys Kinnick has gone off the grid. At Thanksgiving a few years back, a fed-up Rhys punched his conspiracy-theorist son-in-law in the mouth, chucked his smartphone out a car window and fled for a cabin in the woods, with no one around except a pack of hungry raccoons.
Now Kinnick’s old life is about to land right back on his crumbling doorstep. Can this failed husband and father, a man with no internet and a car that barely runs, reemerge into a broken world to track down his missing daughter and save his sweet, precocious grandchildren from the members of a dangerous militia?
With the help of his caustic ex-girlfriend, a bipolar retired detective, and his only friend (who happens to be furious with him), Kinnick heads off on a wild journey through cultural lunacy and the rubble of a life he thought he’d left behind. So Far Gone is a rollicking, razor-sharp, and moving road trip through a fractured nation, from a writer who has been called “a genius of the modern American moment” (Philadelphia Inquirer).
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Walter (The Cold Millions) serves up a rollicking and heartrending adventure about a broken man determined to set things right in an increasingly divided America. Rhys Kinnick, a retired environmental reporter, has been estranged from his family for several years after punching his Christian nationalist son-in-law, Shane, during a heated exchange over the latter's anti-government conspiracy theories. When two young children show up at Rhys's isolated cabin in Washington State, he doesn't immediately recognize them as his grandchildren, Leah and Asher, now 13 and 9. Bethany, their mother, has disappeared, leaving behind a note for her neighbor to take the kids to Rhys. Shane, who's off looking for Bethany, has dispatched two members of the Army of the Lord, a militia affiliated with the family's new church, to retrieve Leah and Asher. After Shane's goons track down Rhys, they announce they're taking the kids to the Rampart, the church's armed compound on the Idaho panhandle, and Rhys's failed attempt to stop them leaves him with a broken cheekbone. Rhys then sets out to rescue his grandkids, with the help of a retired police detective turned private investigator, whose manic bipolar episode fuels his devotion to Rhys's cause and adds to its danger. Walter offers an honest and even touching look at the two retirees' need for purpose while finding deadpan humor in their failings. The propulsive plot also sees Bethany coming to terms with her own choices, and the reader comes to care deeply about all the primary characters—even Shane, who turns out to be more of a misguided seeker than a villain. This captivates.
