Light Years
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4.1 • 64 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
A brilliant portrait of a marriage from the PEN/Faulkner Award-winner and author of A Sport and a Pastime, with an introduction by Richard Ford.
“Light Years is a novel of almost holy radiance to me. It is great in every sense of the word: vast, and timeless, and enduring.”—Lauren Groff, bestselling author of Fates and Furies
“Remarkable. An unexpectedly moving ode to beautiful lives frayed by time.”—James Wolcott, Esquire
“[A] twentieth-century masterpiece. At once iridescent, lyrical, mystical and magnetic.”—Bloomsbury Review
Nedra and Viri's favored life revolves around delightful dinners, imaginative games with their children, enviable friends, and idyllic days spent skating on a frozen river or basking in the sun on the beach. But even as Salter lingers over the surface of their marriage, he lets us see the fine cracks that are spreading through it, flaws that will eventually mar the lovely picture beyond repair.
Seductive, witty, and elegantly nuanced, Light Years is a classic novel of an entire generation that discovered the limits of its own happiness—and then felt compelled to destroy it.
Customer Reviews
Light Years
The plot is of minor concern to the reader in this case. Rather, it is the uniqueness of the writing: "poetic prose". So much of the description is like that in a great poem, with metaphorical implications for the reader that at times are utterly stunning!
If the reader were asked "what's the story about?" - a summary of the plot would almost be irrelevant. Of greater significance might be the question "what does the reader get from reading this story?" Many answers to that, but one might be: "this story often describes beautifully feelings in myself that I have not been able to articulate before, but now feel more meaningfully!"
Light years
I tried. But couldn’t get through more than 6 chapters. Don’t know what direction the author was going in and what the story was all about. It does not capture the reader