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Deni Y. Bechard, VANDAL LOVE *SIGNED DATED & NYC* 2012 PB 1ST1ST Event Signed!
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Signed By
- Bechard, Deni Ellis, DENI Y. BECHARD
- Country of Manufacture
- United States
- Original Language
- English
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- SOFTCOVER, ~First Edition, First Printing Softcover., ~SIGNED in Person at the Book Signing Event., ~Signed on the Full Title Page by Author.
- Literary Period/Movement
- Modernism
- Signed
- Yes
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Title
- VANDAL LOVE
- Age Level
- Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Modified Item
- No
- Subject
- Literature, Modern
- Edition
- First Edition
- Type
- Novel
- Year
- 2012
- Literary Movement
- Modernism
- Era
- 21st Century
- Special Attributes
- Paperback
- Cultural Region
- American Literature
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9781571310910
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
ISBN-10
1571310916
ISBN-13
9781571310910
eBay Product ID (ePID)
112600804
Product Key Features
Book Title
Vandal Love
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Psychological, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight
15.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-041008
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Praise for Vandal Love : "In this moving and entertaining debut , the Hervé family suffers from a genetic quirk—or divine malady—that results in their children growing into towering brutes or sickly runts. In mid-20th–century Quebec, the hard drinking patriarch Hervé Hervé reduces his family by lending—or simply giving away—the runts, while keeping the giants for labor. Set both in Canada and several American states, from Maine to New Mexico, and spanning more than half a century, the novel divides itself between the isolated introspective pugilist giant Jude, and François, a sociable, religious runt. Though the two Hervé brothers are very different in appearance, they both feel the need to strike out alone, creating their own families and identities in transcontinental voyages. This is both a road novel and a voyage through time, with each of the book's two parts covering the lifetimes of several family members in an examination of the Hervé lineage. Ruminations abound on sex, violence, and the bonds between people. Though Béchard (Cures for Hunger, a memoir) has a journalism background, this fiction debut, unfolding in punchy prose, recalls Márquez with a French-Canadian twist . " — Publishers Weekly (starred) An enormously impressive debut by a clearly gifted writer." —Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain Vandal Love introduces a gifted new writer. Béchard's surety of voice and confident narrative span declare a first rate novel and an eloquent debut." —Commonwealth Judging Panel Reminiscent of Proulx and Doctorow in both sweep and grace of prose, it is hard to believe that Vandal Love , so elegant and accomplished, is only Béchard''s first novel." —Dagoberto Gilb, Author of The Magic of Blood and Woodcuts of Women The word ''masterpiece'' is not to be used lightly, but one is tempted in the case of Vandal Love , for the scope of its ambition, its originality, and its muscular use of language conjure a young Faulkner, Garcia Marquez, or Steinbeck." —Katherine Min, author of Secondhand World Masterful storytelling and heartbreakingly beautiful writing— Vandal Love delivers this and more in an epic tale of love, family, and country. I could not put it down, and when the journey finally ended, I refused to lend my copy and instead bought extras to spread the joy." —Loung Ung, author of Lucky Child and First They Killed My Father Béchard''s writing, at its strongest, flows in sonorous passages, evokes memorable landscapes, natural and urban, examines the enduring qualities of a family separated by both time and distance, and contains echoes of the magic realism of the South American master Gabriel García Márquez." — Winnipeg Free Press Deni Y. Béchard surpasses Kerouac in his consciousness of the French as part of a larger people, how their struggle is socially and politically situated rather than strictly personal . . . Vandal Love seems like a trans-generational On the Road , which, also infused with a kind of inherited defeatism, was the perfect Americanized expression of an unexamined Existentialism, the ultimate Beat utterance." — The Globe and Mail Although Vandal Love is a first novel, it reads as smoothly as if Béchard had a library to his name--mature, lyrical, tactile and at times simple, cruel and sweet. No doubt, the giant steps this young writer has taken will set him far ahead on his literary path." — Calgary Herald Highly original, poetically charged, compelling, beautifully crafted, visceral, sonorous, visionary. . . . Béchard''s prose, at once lyrical and tight, is mesmerizing, with resonances of Marquez, Faulkner, and Ondaatje–yet it is very much Béchard''s own. Vandal Love is a saga of family and history, love and isolation, strength and vulnerability, suffering and redemption." —Off The Shelf, Boston Globe book blog
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
An astonishing novel of epic ambition, Vandal Love --winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book in 2007--follows generations of a unique French-Canadian family across North America and through the twentieth century. A family curse--a genetic trick resulting from centuries of hardship--causes the Hervé children to be born either giants or runts. Book One follows the giants' line, exploring Jude Hervé's career as a boxer in Georgia and Louisiana in the 1960s, his escape from that brutal life alone with his baby daughter Isa, and her eventual decision to enter into a strange, chaste marriage with a much older man. Book Two traces a different kind of life entirely, as the runts of the family discover that their power lies in a kind of unifying love. François seeks the identity of his missing father for years, while his own son, Harvey, flees from modern society into spiritual quests. But none of the Hervés can abandon their longing for a place where they might find others like themselves. In assured and mystically powerful prose, Deni Y. Béchard tells a wide-ranging, spellbinding story of a family trying to create an identity in an unwelcoming landscape. Imbued throughout with a deep sensitivity to the physical world, Vandal Love is a breathtaking literary debut about the power of love to create and destroy -- in our lives, and in our history., An astonishing novel of epic ambition, Vandal Love --winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book in 2007--follows generations of a unique French-Canadian family across North America and through the twentieth century. A family curse--a genetic trick resulting from centuries of hardship--causes the Hervé children to be born either giants or runts. Book One follows the giants' line, exploring Jude Hervé's career as a boxer in Georgia and Louisiana in the 1960s, his escape from that brutal life alone with his baby daughter Isa, and her eventual decision to enter into a strange, chaste marriage with a much older man. Book Two traces a different kind of life entirely, as the runts of the family discover that their power lies in a kind of unifying love. François seeks the identity of his missing father for years, while his own son, Harvey, flees from modern society into spiritual quests. But none of the Hervés can abandon their longing for a place where they might find others like themselves. In assured and mystically powerful prose, Deni Y. Béchard tells a wide-ranging, spellbinding story of a family trying to create an identity in an unwelcoming landscape. Imbued throughout with a deep sensitivity to the physical world, Vandal Love is a breathtaking literary debut about the power of love to create and destroy--in our lives, and in our history., An astonishing novel of epic ambition, Vandal Love --winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book in 2007--follows generations of a unique French-Canadian family across North America and through the twentieth century. A family curse--a genetic trick resulting from centuries of hardship--causes the Herv children to be born either giants or runts. Book One follows the giants' line, exploring Jude Herv 's career as a boxer in Georgia and Louisiana in the 1960s, his escape from that brutal life alone with his baby daughter Isa, and her eventual decision to enter into a strange, chaste marriage with a much older man. Book Two traces a different kind of life entirely, as the runts of the family discover that their power lies in a kind of unifying love. Fran ois seeks the identity of his missing father for years, while his own son, Harvey, flees from modern society into spiritual quests. But none of the Herv s can abandon their longing for a place where they might find others like themselves. In assured and mystically powerful prose, Deni Y. B chard tells a wide-ranging, spellbinding story of a family trying to create an identity in an unwelcoming landscape. Imbued throughout with a deep sensitivity to the physical world, Vandal Love is a breathtaking literary debut about the power of love to create and destroy--in our lives, and in our history., An astonishing novel of epic ambition, Vandal Love —winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book in 2007—follows generations of a unique French-Canadian family across North America and through the twentieth century. A family curse—a genetic trick resulting from centuries of hardship—causes the Hervé children to be born either giants or runts. Book One follows the giants' line, exploring Jude Hervé's career as a boxer in Georgia and Louisiana in the 1960s, his escape from that brutal life alone with his baby daughter Isa, and her eventual decision to enter into a strange, chaste marriage with a much older man. Book Two traces a different kind of life entirely, as the runts of the family discover that their power lies in a kind of unifying love. François seeks the identity of his missing father for years, while his own son, Harvey, flees from modern society into spiritual quests. But none of the Hervés can abandon their longing for a place where they might find others like themselves. In assured and mystically powerful prose, Deni Y. Béchard tells a wide-ranging, spellbinding story of a family trying to create an identity in an unwelcoming landscape. Imbued throughout with a deep sensitivity to the physical world, Vandal Love is a breathtaking literary debut about the power of love to create and destroy—in our lives, and in our history., An astonishing novel of epic ambition, Vandal Love--winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book in 2007--follows generations of a unique French-Canadian family across North America and through the twentieth century. A family curse--a genetic trick resulting from centuries of hardship--causes the Hervé children to be born either giants or runts. Book One follows the giants' line, exploring Jude Hervé's career as a boxer in Georgia and Louisiana in the 1960s, his escape from that brutal life alone with his baby daughter Isa, and her eventual decision to enter into a strange, chaste marriage with a much older man. Book Two traces a different kind of life entirely, as the runts of the family discover that their power lies in a kind of unifying love. François seeks the identity of his missing father for years, while his own son, Harvey, flees from modern society into spiritual quests. But none of the Hervés can abandon their longing for a place where they might find others like themselves. In assured and mystically powerful prose, Deni Y. Béchard tells a wide-ranging, spellbinding story of a family trying to create an identity in an unwelcoming landscape. Imbued throughout with a deep sensitivity to the physical world, Vandal Love is a breathtaking literary debut about the power of love to create and destroy -- in our lives, and in our history.
LC Classification Number
PR9199.4.B443V33
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