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Carregando... The Longest Nightde Andria Williams
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HTML:A scintillating debut novel about a young couple whose marriage is tested when they move to an army base rife with love triangles, life-or-death conflicts, and a dramatic cover-up In 1959, Nat Collier moves with her husband, Paul, and their two young daughters to Idaho Falls, a remote military town. An Army Specialist, Paul is stationed there to help oversee one of the countrys first nuclear reactorsan assignment that seems full of opportunity. Then, on his rounds, Paul discovers that the reactor is compromised, placing his family and the entire community in danger. Worse, his superiors set out to cover up the problem rather than fix it. Paul cant bring himself to tell Nat the truth, but his lies only widen a growing gulf between them. Lonely and restless, Nat is having trouble adjusting to their new life. She struggles to fit into her role as a housewife and longs for a real friend. When she meets a rancher, Esrom, she finds herself drawn to him, comforted by his kindness and company. But as rumors spread, the secrets between Nat and Paul build and threaten to reach a breaking point. Based on a true story of the only fatal nuclear accident to occur in America, The Longest Night is a deeply moving novel that explores the intricate makeup of a marriage, the shifting nature of trust, and the ways we try to protect the ones we love. Praise for The Longest Night [A] stunning debut.Entertainment Weekly [A] smart and detailed portrait of a dissolving postwar marriage . . . will remind many readers of Richard Yatess Revolutionary Road.San Francisco Chronicle [Andria] Williamss quietly confident style is without swagger or gimmick. . . . What emerges most powerfully from The Longest Night is a kind of quiet wonder at the exquisite intricacy, but astonishing durability, of familial love.Los Angeles Review of Books Think Army Wives meets Serial meets your perfect long weekend read. About an army base with a lot of love triangles, and a cover-up.theSkimm The tension builds heavily with each page.InStyle Scintillating . . . A smoldering, altogether impressive debut that probes the social and emotional strains on military families in a fresh and insightful way.Kirkus Reviews (starred review) [A] luminous debut . . . Williams expertly builds tension between Paul and Nat as the story progresses towards the inevitable nuclear tragedy in this utterly absorbing and richly rewarding novel.Booklist (starred review) Andria Williamss debut is an intimately detailed portrait of love, trust, and guilt in a townand an eraclouded with secrets.Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You A smart and compassionate novel that offers as many fresh insights into marriage and intimacy as it does about American nuclear history. Andria Williams is a terrific writerclear-eyed and empatheticand this is a fantastic debut.Molly Antopol, author of The UnAmericans Its hard to believe The Longest Night is Andria Williamss debut novel. Her command of language, character and plotthe three essential ingredients for a riveting readis extraordinary.David Abrams, author of Fobbit. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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5
A slow-burner of a book with excellent characterization and satisfying conclusion. Novelist Andria Williams chooses a little-known and mostly covered-up piece of American history (the first and to-date, only, nuclear reactor accident with immediate fatalities) for her debut.
Set in the early 1960's in Idaho Falls, ID, Williams tells the story of a young Army specialist, Paul Collier, his wife, Nat, and their young daughters. This was the era when people married very young, had kids very young, and many scraped by without any of the "luxuries" common place today (a TV, a second car for the family, etc.)
Paul's boss is Master Sargent Mitch Richards -- an underworked, overprivileged excuse for a leader who not only thinks he is much smarter, charming and good looking than he really is, but who takes whatever amount of power his rank gives him and lords it over those beneath him. God, I hated this guy (probably because I've known I few just like him in real life!) Mitch's wife Jeannie, with her steely perfect exterior, knows her husband is a buffoon, but just tries to bide her time until his pension kicks in. Until then, she's the chief "mean girl" among the Army wives.
Some of my GR friends felt this book was a bit too slow, but I didn't find that to be the case at all. I found the pacing to be taut and loved the exploration of the characters' actions and motivations as the stories at work (and at home) unfolded.
Thank you to Random House and NetGalley for a galley of this book in exchange for an honest review. Although I had a galley of the book, I opted to listened to the audio, which I can also recommend. (