by Philipp Meyer · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226259769
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«Le fils» is the historical and family novel by Philipp Meyer, published by Albin Michel in paperback (670 pages, in French).
The novel follows Eli McCullough, kidnapped at age eleven by the Comanches, and his descendants over more than a century in Texas. Three generations of the McCulloughs face the conquest of the West, the Civil War, and the oil boom, in a chronicle about violence, ambition, and the price of the American dream.
Original work: The Son. Finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Writers' League of Texas Book Award.
For readers of family sagas and historical fiction about the American frontier.
Philipp Meyer is an American fiction writer and the author of the novels American Rust and The Son, as well as short stories published in The New Yorker and elsewhere. Meyer also created and produced the AMC television show based on his novel. He won the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, received a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship and was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize. He won the 2014 Lucien Barrière prize in France and the 2015 Prix Littérature-Monde Prize in France. In 2017 he was named a Chevalier (Knight) in France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
