Birth of a Bridge by Kerangal, Maylis De

Birth of a Bridge

From one of the most exciting novelists writing in France today comes Birth of a Bridge -...
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Author: Maylis De Kerangal
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Language: English
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Birth of a Bridge by Kerangal, Maylis De

Birth of a Bridge

$16.95

Birth of a Bridge

$16.95
Author: Maylis De Kerangal
Format: Paperback
Language: English

From one of the most exciting novelists writing in France today comes Birth of a Bridge - the story of a handful of men and women of various backgrounds and classes, who assemble around the construction of a giant suspension bridge in Coca, a fictional city somewhere in a mythical and fantastic California.

Told on a sweeping scale reminiscent of classic American adventure films, this Médicis Prize-winning novel chronicles the lives of these individuals, who represent a microcosm of not just mythic California, but of humanity as a whole. Their collective effort to complete (or oppose) the mega-project recounts one of the oldest of human dramas, to domesticate - and to radically transform - our world through built form, with all the dramatic tension it brings: a threatened strike, an environmental dispute, sabotage, accidents, career moves, and love affairs ... Here generations and social classes cease to exist, and everyone and everything converges toward the bridge as metaphor, a cross-cultural impression of America today.

De Kerangal's writing has been widely praised for its scope, originality, and use of language. Her rich prose plays with different registers (from the most highly literary to the most colloquial slang) as well as speed and tension through grammatical ellipsis and elision. She employs a huge vocabulary and invents new relationships between words in a completely innovative use of language.



Author: Maylis De Kerangal
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: 09/09/2014
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780889228894


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2014
Publishers Weekly 10/13/2014
Library Journal 12/01/2014 pg. 98

About the Author
Maylis de Kerangal is the author of several novels in French. Her most recent, Naissance d'un pont / Birth of a Bridge, won le prix Médicis and le prix Franz Hessel.

Jessica Moore is the author of Everything, Now, part lyric, part memoir, published in 2012 published by Brick Books. In the same year, Talonbooks published her translation of Jean-François Beauchemin's Turkana Boy. She also writes songs and plays the banjo - her band, Charms, launched a self-titled album in 2010 in Toronto.

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