Payback: A Novel
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780593082546
- Book Title
- Payback : a Novel
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Contemporary Women, Literary
- Item Weight
- 10.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0593082540
ISBN-13
9780593082546
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6050081844
Product Key Features
Book Title
Payback : a Novel
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Contemporary Women, Literary
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-000079
Reviews
"Gordon has produced her most topical and propulsive novel to date. . . . What she has set up in this clash of cultures and values is the 'heroism of good manners' versus the brutality of a world in which the president, setting a coarse new tone, has 'poisoned the air.' Gordon makes it clear how high the stakes are in this battle for decency." -- Los Angeles Times "Morally complex." -- The New York Times Book Review "[Gordon] is expert at creating characters of clear moral, intellectual and what might be called aesthetic goodness--then testing that goodness in a clarifying, often life-altering way. In some ways, Gordon's familiar conception of the novel is the real character being tested in Payback , as a sensibility attuned to the nuances of truth and beauty finds itself in the harsh, ugly light of the reality TV show that our world is inexorably becoming." -- The Washington Post "Excellent. . . . Gordon nails period details and vividly describes her characters' worlds, whether they are restoring a work of art or raising a daughter. This mesmerizing novel hits hard." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Nuanced where it could be sensational, the novel explores how one moment can completely change the trajectory of two women's lives forever. In Payback , Gordon's understated and beautiful prose reveals the murkiness of victimhood, forgiveness, and redemption." -- Chronogram " Payback resists categorization; it's part satire and part meditative character study. . . . [The novel] offers many pleasures, not only the range in voices but also the evocation of two eras, the early 1970s and the current decade, with the right amount of period detail." -- BookPage "Virtuoso Gordon creates finely nuanced moral quandaries and explores the deep toxicity of sexism with scintillating energy and piercing inquisitiveness. . . . Every facet of this psychologically and sensuously lush novel about damage and nurture, altruism and selfishness, disorder and art, privacy and meaningful work, sexual violence and blame, hate and forgiveness poses profound questions about womanhood, how one lives one's life, what truly matters, and what we owe others." -- Booklist (starred review) "Gordon's masterful structure and sense of voice create an intensely moving meditation on the relationship of the past self and its deeds to the present, as well as a brilliant evocation of the emotional impact of aging on women's lives and identities." --Historical Novel Society "Into our troubled moment of reckoning Mary Gordon's new novel, Payback , enters with timely grace. . . . Gordon, having grown up in the Catholic church and devoted a full, increasingly rich career to writing novels built on the insolubility of moral problems in an age where religious resolution is no longer imaginable, is writing in a tradition that comes straight out of the mid-19th century." --Public Books, "Her most topical and propulsive novel to date." -- Heller McAlpin, Los Angeles Times "[Gordon] is expert at creating characters of clear moral, intellectual and what might be called aesthetic goodness--then testing that goodness in a clarifying, often life-altering way." --Ellen Akins, The Washington Post "Morally complex . . . Since her marvelous first novel, Final Payments (1978), [Gordon] has concerned herself with questions of ethics, belief, responsibility, devotion, obligation. What do human beings owe one another and how can we know what is the right thing to do? How are we to love the ungrateful, deluded and ill-tempered who cannot return our love? Who is the victim, who is the victimizer, and how easily are those roles reversed?" --Francine Prose, The New York Times "Nuanced . . . Explores how one moment can completely change the trajectory of two women's lives forever . . . Gordon's understated and beautiful prose reveals the murkiness of victimhood, forgiveness, and redemption." --Carolyn Quimby, Chronogram "Gordon's masterful structure and sense of voice create an intensely moving meditation on the relationship of the past self and its deeds to the present, as well as a brilliant evocation of the emotional impact of aging on women's lives and identities." --Kristen McDermott, Historical Novel Society "Gordon creates finely nuanced moral quandaries and explores the deep toxicity of sexism with scintillating energy and piercing inquisitiveness . . . Every facet of this psychologically and sensuously lush novel about damage and nurture, altruism and selfishness, disorder and art, privacy and meaningful work, sexual violence and blame, hate and forgiveness poses profound questions about womanhood, how one lives one's life, what truly matters, and what we owe others." --Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review) "Excellent . . . Contrasts the 1970s world of upper-class women's education with the #MeToo era . . . Gordon nails period details and vividly describes her characters' worlds, whether they are restoring a work of art or raising a daughter. This mesmerizing novel hits hard." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) " Payback offers many pleasures, not only the range in voices but also the evocation of two eras, the early 1970s and the current decade . . . Beautiful writing, with wonderful observations on families, life in Italy, aging, and the passage of time." --Sarah McCraw Crow, BookPage
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
Quin Archer is the revenge-loving queen of the reality TV show Payback , and has dedicated her life to confronting and outing the guilty. But long before she was a star, Quin was an angry teenage student at a private New England girls' school, whose closest confidant was her art teacher, Agnes. But when Quin (then known as Heidi) turned to Agnes for help in a moment of desperate need, Agnes's stunned response devastated them both. Payback is a powerful tale of #MeToo misunderstanding, from a time before there was language to contain it, and of the reverberations of our actions across the years. It is a remarkable book about the precise weight of our words and deeds from a writer whose moral vision is deeply rewarding in its subtlety.
LC Classification Number
PS3557.O669P39 2020
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