Liars and Saints
Maile Meloy
(Author)
Description
A richly textured novel tells a story of sex and longing, love and loss, and of the deceit that can lie at the heart of family relationships. "Each chapter...has the seductive aura of a finely crafted story. Liars and Saints is instructive and bittersweet and yet somehow never nostalgic" (Los Angeles Times).Set in California, Liars and Saints follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present. In a family driven as much by jealousy and propriety as by love, an unspoken tradition of deceit is passed from generation to generation. When tragedy shatters their precarious domestic lives, it takes astonishing courage and compassion to bring them back together. By turns funny and disturbing, irreverent and profound, Liars and Saints is a masterful display of Maile Meloy's prodigious gifts and of her penetrating insight into an extraordinary American family and into the nature of human love. "Meloy may be the first great American realist of the twenty-first century: The Santerres aren't real but they feel like they are, and the reader will not soon forget them" (The Boston Globe).Product Details
Price
$17.00
Publisher
Scribner Book Company
Publish Date
July 13, 2004
Pages
272
Dimensions
5.28 X 0.6 X 8.12 inches | 0.51 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780743261982
Earn by promoting books
Earn money by sharing your favorite books through our Affiliate program.
Become an affiliate
About the Author
Maile Meloy's short-story collection, Half in Love, was a New York Times Notable Book in 2002. She won the 2001 Aga Khan Prize for best story in the Paris Review. Her work has also appeared in the New Yorker and Best New American Voices and has been nominated for a National Magazine Award. She lives in California.
Reviews
The New York Times Book Review A spectacular first novel.
The Boston Globe A tour de force.
The New York Times Magazine Maile Meloy combines the meticulous realism of domestic fiction with the witchery of a natural-born storyteller.
San Francisco Chronicle Remarkable...Bittersweet, wise, with a fantastic sense of character and history...Fifteen minutes after opening this book, a reader is apt not just to care about the Santerres but also to feel like one of them.
The Boston Globe A tour de force.
The New York Times Magazine Maile Meloy combines the meticulous realism of domestic fiction with the witchery of a natural-born storyteller.
San Francisco Chronicle Remarkable...Bittersweet, wise, with a fantastic sense of character and history...Fifteen minutes after opening this book, a reader is apt not just to care about the Santerres but also to feel like one of them.
