Shortlisted for the prestigious 2010 Orange Prize.
January 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Barbara Kingsolver’s first novel in almost 10 years (she is the author of Prodigal Summer and the captivating The Poisonwood Bible) is an achingly complex story that digs deep into our sense of place and security; our fears and prejudices. The tale is of the fictional Harrison Shepherd, who is drawn back and forward between the politics and public passions of both Mexico and the States over three decades from the 1930s. Revealed through his own words as well as diaries and newspaper cuttings, Shepherd’s extraordinary life and encounters with artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Trotsky and the FBI in McCarthy’s America powerfully relate a much bigger story.
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The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man's search for safety of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthyite America. Born in the U.S. and reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salome. Making himself useful in the household of the famed Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, and exiled Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky, young Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution.
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The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man's search for safety of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthyite America. Born in the U.S. and reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salome.
The Lacuna features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Family Drama, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
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The Lacuna was written by Barbara Kingsolver and published by Faber and Faber
The Lacuna has 507 pages
