It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn't quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past, for Jake has Alzheimer's. As the disease takes hold of him, Jake struggles to hold on to his personal story, to his memories and identity, but they are becoming increasingly elusive and unreliable. What happened to his daughter? Is she alive, or long dead? And why exactly is his son in prison? What went so wrong in his life? There was a cherry tree once, and a yellow dress, but what exactly do they mean? As Jake, assisted by 'poor Eleanor', a childhood friend with whom for some unfathomable reason he seems to be sleeping, fights the inevitable dying of the light, the key events of his life keep changing as he tries to grasp them, and what until recently seemed solid fact is melting into surreal dreams or nightmarish imaginings. Is there anything he'll be able to salvage from the wreckage? Beauty, perhaps? The memory of love? Or nothing at all? From the first sentence to the last, "The Wilderness" holds us in its grip. This is writing of extraordinary power and beauty.
The Wilderness
Autor/a:
Narrador/a:
Formato:
- Audiolibro
Duración:
Idioma:
inglés
Pequeño&Grande Salvador Dalí
Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara
bookHard Work - A House Flipping Rom Com - Cook Brothers, Book 4 (Unabridged)
BJ Harvey
audiobookThe Simple IPhone 12 Pro Max Photography User Guide For Seniors
Wendy Hills
bookAyer mineros hoy ecoguías y concesionarios : Tensiones en torno a la conservación ambiental, el uso de la tierra y el trabajo en Guasca, Cundinamarca
Felipe Rojas Árias
bookDeath by Water : Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016
Kenzaburo Oe
bookGuía De Usuario Del IPhone 13 Fotografía Pro Max
Wendy Hills
bookFrom Polio to Ironman
Bjørn Rasmussen
bookSaturn
Sarah Chiche
bookEl secreto de Antoni Tàpies : Reflexiones sobre la poética del muro
Massimo Recalcati
bookThe Louvre
James Gardner
audiobookVoraz
Jeff Gordinier
bookIntel·ligència emocional
Daniel Goleman
book