Philipp Meyer (1) (1974–)
Autor(a) de The Son
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About the Author
Image credit: Philipp Meyer - Photo: © Ricardo B. Brazziell
Obras de Philipp Meyer
One Day This Will All Be Yours [periodical article] 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
McSweeney's Issue 18 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) / Wholphin No. 1 (2005) — Contribuinte — 409 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1974-01-05
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Locais de residência
- Austin, Texas, USA
New York, New York, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ithaca, New York, USA - Educação
- Cornell University (BA | English)
University of Texas (MFA | Creative Writing) - Ocupação
- emergency medical technician
bicycle mechanic
derivatives trader (Wall Street)
construction worker - Agente
- Esther Newberg
Peter Straus - Pequena biografia
- Philipp Meyer grew up in a working class neighborhood Baltimore, Maryland, dropped out of high school, and got his GED when he was sixteen. After spending several years volunteering at a trauma center in downtown Baltimore, he attended Cornell University, where he studied English. Since graduating, Meyer has worked as a derivatives trader at UBS, a construction worker, and an EMT, among other jobs. His writing has been published in McSweeney's, The Iowa Review, Salon.com, and New Stories from the South. From 2005 to 2008 Meyer was a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas. He splits his time between Texas and upstate New York.
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Resenhas
Wow. Terrific book. If you liked Empire of the Summer Moon you'll love this fictional treatment.
Listened to this book on Audible. Wonderful choice of readers to voice the characters. Compelling saga of the McCullough family of Texas as told by various members of the multi-generational family.
This was a book that was difficult to put down. I breezed right through it. I generally don't like novels that cover a large amount of time with multiple generations, but this was so well-written and easy to follow.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 3,411
- Popularidade
- #7,472
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 259
- ISBNs
- 87
- Idiomas
- 12
- Favorito
- 1
Eli, the progenitor of the family fortune, has an inauspicious beginning, kidnapped on the Texas frontier by the Comanches, the rest of his family slaughtered. Adopted by the tribe, he spends several years living with and coming to identify with them. Though sympathetic in their way, the Comanches feel no guilt about the violence and brutality they mete out while trying to hold on to the land they stole generations earlier from weaker Indian tribes, and Eli fully adopts this attitude as a grown man.
After leaving the Comanches, and following a stint hunting and killing Mexicans, Indians, and finally Yankees as part of the Texas Rangers, Eli starts buying up cheap land to build a ranch in south Texas. This brings him into conflict with the Garcia family, who have had their own ranching empire in the area for generations as part of Mexico. The era of Mexican dominion is over, and for those of the old regime who fail to recognize the consequences, it will be brought home to them with bullets and blood.
Besides Eli the novel focuses on two other McCulloughs of vastly different attitude: Peter, Eli's son, who may be said to represent the emergence of the the new humanity that feels guilt about and stands in opposition to such instances of ethnic cleansing and power transfer, and Jeanne, Peter's granddaughter, who embodies a reactionary attitude closer to that of Eli and who vastly expands the family fortune thanks to the oil boom.
The moral superiority of the new attitude over the old is made evident by the end of this fantastic novel, but the reader will have to get through no shortage of bloodshed to arrive at that point.… (mais)