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3225889Crow Lakehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/crow-lake-9780440334361/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3852719/f7dfdcef-7a67-4526-b211-ead7626371c5.jpg?v=638385974381030000112124MXNRandom House Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/3158929Crow Lake112124https://www.gandhi.com.mx/crow-lake-9780440334361/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3852719/f7dfdcef-7a67-4526-b211-ead7626371c5.jpg?v=638385974381030000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20089780440334361_W3siaWQiOiIxOTVhYzRhZC0yM2Y1LTQ0NTUtYWI3Yi00MzljZjgwMzhiZjEiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI5MSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjY3LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIyNCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDEtMTlUMDQ6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d;9780440334361_W3siaWQiOiIyNzdmYzYyZC1lOWZlLTQyNWEtODg0Ny00ZjM0ZTEyZDQzMGEiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI4MCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjY0LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIxNiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDItMDVUMDc6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780440334361_<p><strong><em>Crow Lake</em> is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thinga literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author of immense talent.</strong></p><p>Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural badlands of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible events occuroffstage.</p><p>Centerstage are the Morrisons, whose tragedy looks more immediate if less brutal, but is, in reality, insidious and divisive. Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older brother Matts protegee, her fascination for pond life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist, she can identify organisms under a microscope but seems blind to the state of her own emotional life. And she thinks shes outgrown her siblingsLuke, Matt, and Bowho were once her entire world.</p><p>In this universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harbored and driven underground, Lawson ratchets up the tension with heartbreaking humor and consummate control, continually overturning ones expectations right to the very end. Tragic, funny, unforgettable, <em>Crow Lake</em> is a quiet tour de force that will catapult Mary Lawson to the forefront of fiction writers today.</p><p><strong>Praise for</strong> <em><strong>Crow Lake</strong></em></p><p>A finely crafted debut . . . conveys an astonishing intensity of emotion, almost Proustian in its sense of loss and regret.<strong><em>Kirkus Reviews</em> (starred review)</strong></p><p>The assurance with which Mary Lawson handles both reflection and violence makes her a writer to read and watch. . . . <em>Crow Lake</em> has a resonance at once witty and poignant.The New York Times Book Review</p><p><em>Crow Lake</em> is the kind of book that keeps you reading well past midnight; you grieve when its over. Then you start pressing it on friends.The Washington Post Book World</p><p>A touching meditation on the power of loyalty and loss, on the ways in which we pay our debts and settle old scores, and on what it means to love, to accept, to succeedand to negotiate fates obstacle courses.People</p><p>Lawsons tight focus on the emotional and moral effects of a drastic turn of events on a small human group has its closest contemporary analogue in the novels of Ian McEwan.The Toronto Star</p>...(*_*)9780440334361_<p><strong><em>Crow Lake</em> is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thinga literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author of immense talent.</strong></p><p>Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural badlands of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible events occuroffstage.</p><p>Centerstage are the Morrisons, whose tragedy looks more immediate if less brutal, but is, in reality, insidious and divisive. Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older brother Matts protegee, her fascination for pond life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist, she can identify organisms under a microscope but seems blind to the state of her own emotional life. And she thinks shes outgrown her siblingsLuke, Matt, and Bowho were once her entire world.</p><p>In this universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harbored and driven underground, Lawson ratchets up the tension with heartbreaking humor and consummate control, continually overturning ones expectations right to the very end. Tragic, funny, unforgettable, <em>Crow Lake</em> is a quiet tour de force that will catapult Mary Lawson to the forefront of fiction writers today.</p><p><strong>Praise for</strong> <em><strong>Crow Lake</strong></em></p><p>A finely crafted debut . . . conveys an astonishing intensity of emotion, almost Proustian in its sense of loss and regret.<strong><em>Kirkus Reviews</em> (starred review)</strong></p><p>The assurance with which Mary Lawson handles both reflection and violence makes her a writer to read and watch. . . . [<em>Crow Lake</em>] has a resonance at once witty and poignant.The New York Times Book Review</p><p><em>Crow Lake</em> is the kind of book that keeps you reading well past midnight; you grieve when its over. Then you start pressing it on friends.The Washington Post Book World</p><p>A touching meditation on the power of loyalty and loss, on the ways in which we pay our debts and settle old scores, and on what it means to love, to accept, to succeedand to negotiate fates obstacle courses.People</p><p>Lawsons tight focus on the emotional and moral effects of a drastic turn of events on a small human group has its closest contemporary analogue in the novels of Ian McEwan.The Toronto Star</p>...9780440334361_Random House Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_e8581448-ba84-4d74-8019-79e4ce1004ea_9780440334361;9780440334361_9780440334361Mary LawsonInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-0f28913e-6322-406a-b6c0-6c7d4e743065.epub2008-11-19T00:00:00+00:00Random House Publishing Group