by Philipp Meyer · Le Grand livre du mois · tapa dura · ISBN 9782286114176
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«Le fils» is the historical novel by Philipp Meyer, published by Le Grand livre du mois in hardcover (670 pages, in French).
The novel follows the McCullough family in Texas over generations: Eli is captured by the Comanches in the 19th century, and his descendants experience the rise of cattle ranching and oil. Violence, ambition, and the cost of progress run through the myth of the American frontier.
The French edition was published in 2014 and carries the subtitle «roman». The work belongs to the category Literature and Fiction.
For readers of historical novels and family sagas set on 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.
