Jewel

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"BRET LOTT'S JEWEL IS A BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED FIRST-PERSON EPIC OF ONE POOR SOUTHERN WOMAN'S PERSONAL DUEL WITH GOD THIS IS A VOICE WE DON'T WANT TO STOP HEARING SOME OF THE TENDEREST SCENES OF FAMILY LOVE SINCE THOSE IN DICKENS " —The Chicago Tribune
"LOTT IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND IMAGINATIVE WRITERS IN AMERICA TODAY HIS EYE FOR DETAIL IS UNPARALLELED; HIS VISION—HE LOOKS—IS LIKE NO ONE ELSE'S IN THIS COUNTRY" —The Los Angeles Times
In the backwoods of Mississippi, a land of honeysuckle and grapevine, Jewel and her husband, Leston, are truly blessed; they have five fine children. When Brenda Kay is born in 1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last-born and most -wdcomc. JEWEL is the story of how quickly a life can change; how, like lightning, an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass. In this story of a woman's devotion to the child who is both her burden and God's singular way of smiling on her, Bret Lott has created a mother-daughter... Tovább

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"BRET LOTT'S JEWEL IS A BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED FIRST-PERSON EPIC OF ONE POOR SOUTHERN WOMAN'S PERSONAL DUEL WITH GOD THIS IS A VOICE WE DON'T WANT TO STOP HEARING SOME OF THE TENDEREST SCENES OF FAMILY LOVE SINCE THOSE IN DICKENS " —The Chicago Tribune
"LOTT IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND IMAGINATIVE WRITERS IN AMERICA TODAY HIS EYE FOR DETAIL IS UNPARALLELED; HIS VISION—HE LOOKS—IS LIKE NO ONE ELSE'S IN THIS COUNTRY" —The Los Angeles Times
In the backwoods of Mississippi, a land of honeysuckle and grapevine, Jewel and her husband, Leston, are truly blessed; they have five fine children. When Brenda Kay is born in 1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last-born and most -wdcomc. JEWEL is the story of how quickly a life can change; how, like lightning, an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass. In this story of a woman's devotion to the child who is both her burden and God's singular way of smiling on her, Bret Lott has created a mother-daughter relationship of matchless intensity and beauty, and one of the finest, most indomitable heroines in contemporary American fiction.
"BRET LOTT HAS A GIFT FOR MAKING THE ORDINARY SEEM LUMINOUS. IN JEWEL, HE APPLIES HIS ART TO A BROAD CANVAS AND PRODUCES WHAT MAY STAND AS HIS MASTERPIECE LOTT MATCHES THE HONEST STRENGTH OF HIS CHARACTERS WITH THAT OF HIS PROSE. HIS JEWEL IS A FORCE OF NATURE, HER STORY RISING OUT OF A PERFECT, SEAMLESS UNION OF TELLER AND TALE."
—The Boston Globe Vissza