by Wally Lamb · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253157700
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«Le chagrin et la grâce» is the historical and family novel by Wally Lamb, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (797 pages, in French).
After the Columbine shooting, Caelum and his wife take refuge in the family farm in Three Rivers, Connecticut. There he finds letters from an abolitionist ancestor, diaries of his great-grandmother and clippings from the sixties. These documents allow him to reconstruct five generations of the family and discover the secret of his origins.
The original work was published in 2008; this French edition appeared in 2011. In 2009 it was nominated for the LovelyBooks Leserpreis award.
For readers of literary and historical fiction, particularly those interested in family sagas and the recent history of the United States.
Wally Lamb is an American author known as the writer of the novels She's Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, and The River Is Waiting, all of which were selected for Oprah's Book Club or Oprah's Book Club 2.0. He was the director of the Writing Center at Norwich Free Academy in Norwich from 1989 to 1998 and has taught Creative Writing in the English Department at the University of Connecticut.
