The Tree of Life (Curley Large Print Books) ebook

by Hugh Nissenson

Praise for Hugh Nissenson and The Tree of Life. Finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

Praise for Hugh Nissenson and The Tree of Life. The Tree of Life is one of the most powerful, original, and disturbing books that I have read in a long time. Hugh Nissenson has caught the voice of the old-time diary keeper just exactly. It's uncanny, marvelous, so direct and deceptively simple that you know what pains he has taken. The book is a work of art and no one who.

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The Tree of Life book. Published (first published 1985). In this "Waste Book," Keene conveys his longing for a The year is 1811. Having suffered a loss of faith, Thomas Keene, Congregational minister from New England, abandons the East and moves to Richland County on the Ohio frontier. 1555040969 (ISBN13: 9781555040963).

And yet, if artists may be judged by a single work, then The Tree of Life puts Nissenson on the same plane as Updike. A Simply Profound Life. com User, June 6, 2002

confronts us where our deepest and most disturbing fantasies intersect with our sense of history . Hugh Nissenson (1933-2013) was born in New York City. After graduating from Swarthmore College, he published his first short story in Harper's Magazine in 1958.

confronts us where our deepest and most disturbing fantasies intersect with our sense of history. Given the richness of its texture and the strength of whichever of its threads one pursues, one can imagine that its force will grow and take an ever tighter grip on our understanding of the American past. He taught writing at Yale, Barnard, and Auburn Theological Seminary, and was the author of a memoir, three collections of short stories and journals, and many novels.

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Hugh Nissenson is author of six books, including Tree of Life, a National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. Nissenson lives in New York City with his wife. The Song of the Earth.

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In 1811, Thomas Keene, a minister, loses his faith and travels to Ohio. In this sparse, concise "diary," we get to know Thomas, his mundane activities, his fantasies, and his remarkable adventures on the American frontier. Thomas writes of routine events (his cash accounting, his business selling home-made whiskey), his sexual fantasies and realities, his relationships, his drunkenness, war, Indian legends, and the remarkable hardships of frontier life.
Through the series of simple journal entries, sketches, drawings, and accounting entries, author Hugh Nissenson creates a profound portrait of a fascinating man. Nissenson is a master of "artificial reality"- the structure, style, and false references lend an air of truth to this work of fiction. Historical facts and figures weave seamlessly with the fictional elements. The War of 1812 and John Chapmann (Johnny Appleseed) are prominently featured in the story. And Nissenson himself created the drawings and sketches attributed to his fictional character (the cover is a sample of his work).
I loved this book. It creeps into your mind and comes back to haunt you. I admire Hugh Nissenson's ability to paint, with deceptively-simple strokes, a deep, rich, intimate, lush landscape and a deeply moving character.
If you read and enjoy this book, be sure to read Nissenson's The Song of the Earth, in which he leaps forward rather than back in time for a stunning vision of what might be.

Gaeuney

interesting for it's odd format

Marige

Writing this review two days after John Updike's death, I'm moved to note, through the contrasting example of Nissenson's career, the drastic difference in the two authors' range of printed output. And yet, if artists may be judged by a single work, then The Tree of Life puts Nissenson on the same plane as Updike. Indeed, it may be more indisputably a masterpiece than any single offering by Updike (though in the wide view Updike reigns supreme over every American contemporary and possibly over every American author ever). As for The Tree of Life, however, it is concisely, precisely beautiful, harrowing, historically evocative, and spiritually unsettling in a way that confirms the spirit. Hard to do, you say? Read it.

Gietadia

I can't recommend it enough. How hilarious to cast Johnny Appleseed as a sort-of hipster doofus that is ruining the narrator's love life. Great stuff.