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by Emily Barton
FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Brookland is a great book particularly for people who are interested in Brooklyn, but there are enough interesting characters and historical details that anyone would like it. Emily Barton is a really fine writer.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 21 февр. Since her girlhood, Prudence Winship has gazed across the tidal straits from her home in Brooklyn to the city of Manhattan and yearned to bridge the distance. Now, established as the owner of the enormously successful gin distillery she inherited from her father, she can begin to realize her dream.
Emily Barton (born 1969) is an American novelist, critic, and academic. She is the author of three novels: The Testament of Yves Gundron (2000), Brookland (2006) and The Book of Esther (2016). Barton was raised in New Jersey, where she attended Kent Place School. She attended Harvard College, from which she graduated summa cum laude and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society. She also earned an MFA in fiction writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Brookland confirms Emily Barton's reputation as one of the finest writers of her generation, whose work is "blessedly post-ironic, engaging and heartfelt" (Thomas Pynchon). Connect with the author.
About Emily Barton: Emily Barton has written three novels so far. Her first, THE TESTAMENT OF YVES GUNDRON . Her first, THE TESTAMENT OF YVES GUNDRON, called blessedly post-ironic, engaging, and. Barton's third novel, THE BOOK OF ESTHER, just hit the shelves in June of 2016. Barton is the recipient of an artist's grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Sustainable Arts Foundation.
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Emily Barton's fiction has appeared in Story, American Short Fiction, and Conjunctions. Her first novel, The Testament of Yves Gundron, called blessedly post-ironic, engaging, and heartfelt by Thomas Pynchon, won the Bard Fiction Prize and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She is the recipient of a 2006 artist's grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2006 fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.
Barton's novel weaves an engaging narrative of three sisters bound by unconditional love, their . Brookland is a marvelously beguiling novel. From first elegant page to last, Emily Barton has rendered an enticing story, one both moving and entertaining at every level
Barton's novel weaves an engaging narrative of three sisters bound by unconditional love, their family's gin millâ?and simmering resentment. ?Sarah Childress, Newsweek. This is a fictional book about dreams, drive, and tragedy, but it also recreates, with vivid description, the real world of the past. For those of us who wonder what life was like so long ago, the rewards are rich indeed. From first elegant page to last, Emily Barton has rendered an enticing story, one both moving and entertaining at every level. It's a dazzling and thrilling read, truly an exemplar of modern literature. ?Katharine Weber, author of Triangle.
Brookland confirms Emily Barton's reputation as one of the finest writers of her generation, whose work is "blessedly post-ironic, engaging and heartfelt" (Thomas Pynchon).
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Since her girlhood, Prudence Winship has gazed across the tidal straits from her home in Brooklyn to the city of Manhattan and yearned to bridge the distance. Now, firmly established as the owner of an enormously successful gin distillery she inherited from her father, she can begin to realize her dream.
Set in eighteenth-century Brooklyn, this is the beautifully written story of a woman with a vision: a gargantuan construction of timber and masonry to span the East River. With the help of her sisters--high-spirited Tem and silent, uncanny Pearl--Prue fires the imaginations of the people of Brooklyn and New York by promising them easy passage between their two worlds.
Brookland confirms Emily Barton's reputation as one of the finest writers of her generation, whose work is "blessedly post-ironic, engaging and heartfelt" (Thomas Pynchon).

ISBN: 0312425805
Category: Literature & Fiction
Subcategory: Genre Fiction
Language: English
Publisher: Picador; First edition (February 20, 2007)
Pages: 496 pages
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