The Lacuna CD: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (547 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0045EPCKK |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Back in the land of his birth, Shepherd seeks to remake himself in America’s hopeful image and claim a voice of his own. When he goes to work for Rivera, his wife, exotic artist Kahlo, and exiled leader Lev Trotsky, Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution. Meanwhile, the United States has embraced the internationalist goodwill of World War II. But political winds continue to toss him between north and south in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach—the lacuna—between truth and public presumption.. Edgar Hoover, The Lacuna tells the poignant story of a man pulled between two nations. From the Mexico City of Frida Kahlo to the America of J. Born in the United States, but reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers and, one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed muralist Diego Rivera
Kingsolver's ambitious new novel, her first in nine years (after the The Poisonwood Bible), focuses on Harrison William Shepherd, the product of a divorced American father and a Mexican mother. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. After Trotsky is assassinated, Harrison returns to the U.S., settling down in Asheville, N.C., where he becomes an author of historical potboilers (e.g., Vassals of Majesty) and is later investigated as a possible subversive. (Nov.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Narrated in the form of letters, diary entries and newspaper clippings, the novel takes a while to get going, but once it does, it achieves a rare dramatic power that reaches its emotional peak when Harrison wittily and eloquently defends himself before the House Un-American Activities Committee
"Ambitious, Just Short of Great" according to J. Jamakaya. “The Lacuna” follows the life of Harrison Shepherd, the son of a Mexican mother and American father as he tries to find his place in the world. Raised mostly in Mexico, his young friends there consider him a “gringo.” Sent to school in the states, American kids consider him Mexican. The book is a wonderful meditation on identity, nationality, sexuality and art through the story of a sensitive and observant young man who always finds himself in the middle. The story runs from 1929 to the 1950s and encompasses aspects of Mexican, American and international history.Barbara Kingsolver expresses interesting c. A Writer's Power to Help Us See Barbara Kingslover's ability to take the voices of witnesses to history is remarkable. In The Lacuna, she takes the voice of the assistant to a character, Harrison Shepherd, who is himself the assistant, typist, cook, and witness to some giants of the Twentieth century as well as observer and victim of the greatness and shallowness of key historic events and tide shifts in the nation's soul. She takes the historic and blends it with the everyday reality of living to tell the stories that were not told truthfully at the time such as the scourge of the anti-communism panic and American pogroms of the late 19A Writer's Power to Help Us See Jack M. Barbara Kingslover's ability to take the voices of witnesses to history is remarkable. In The Lacuna, she takes the voice of the assistant to a character, Harrison Shepherd, who is himself the assistant, typist, cook, and witness to some giants of the Twentieth century as well as observer and victim of the greatness and shallowness of key historic events and tide shifts in the nation's soul. She takes the historic and blends it with the everyday reality of living to tell the stories that were not told truthfully at the time such as the scourge of the anti-communism panic and American pogroms of the late 1940's and 50's. While t. 0's and 50's. While t. Three Stars Urenna In 1929, when Harrison William (Will) Shepherd was nine-years-old, his mother, Salomé, left her estranged husband, Will’s father, in Virginia, and moved to Isla Pixol, Mexico, with her lover, oil man, Enrique, hoping she’d be the bride of a wealthy man, with promises to her son he’d be a young ‘squire’ living in a hacienda, surrounded by pineapple fields. Enrique’s family were wealthy Catholics. Marriage was not in the offing with a married woman or divorcée.Green-eyed, Mexican-born, self-centered, Salomé was a Criolla—pure Spanish descent, who endeavored to marry a