- Published: 15 August 2007
- ISBN: 9781590172339
- Imprint: NY Review Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $45.00
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
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- Published: 15 August 2007
- ISBN: 9781590172339
- Imprint: NY Review Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $45.00
"Quaint. Fascinating. Unique. Queer...Ebenezer Le Page is a eulogy for a way of life." --LA Times "It reads like Beethoven's Ninth...Coated with sea salt, its crannies spilling wildflowers, Edwards's book still roars like some huge shell held, cutting, against your ear." --The Atlantic "An extraordinary book!...Splendid! To read it is not like reading but living." -W. Golding "Imagine a weekend spent in deep conversation with a superb old man, a crusty, intelligent, passionate and individualistic character at the peak of his powers as a raconteur, and you will have a very good ideas of the impact of The Book of Ebenezer Le Page...It amuses, it entertains, it moves us...its creation is a tremendous achievement." --The Washington Post "[A] rare find...a first novel that resists all categories-and it overflows with the sense of life..."--Chicago Tribune "[A]n inexhaustible book...It is literally one of a kind, a work with no precedent, sponsorship, or pedigree. A true epic, as sexy as it is hilarious, it seems drenched with the harsh tidal beauties of its setting, the isle of Guernsey...For every person nearing retirement, every latent writer who hopes to leave his island and find the literary mainland, its author-quiet, self-sufficient, tidy Homeric-remains a patron saint." --Allan Gurganus, O Magazine
"A true epic, as sexy as it is hilarious, it seems drenched with the harsh tidal beauties of its setting...For every person nearing retirement, every latent writer who hopes to leave his island and find the literary mainland, its author–quiet, self-sufficient, tidy Homeric–remains a patron saint." –Allan Gurganus, O Magazine