Liars and Saints

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"A spectacular first novel." —the new york times book review
"A tour de force." —the boston globe
"Maile Melöy combines the meticulous realism of domestic fiction with the witchery of a natural-born storyteller."
--the new york times magazine
With her first novel, Liard and Saintd, award-winning author Maile Meloy more than delivers on the promise of her highly acclaimed debut story collection, HaLf in Love. This richly textured novel tells a story of sex and longing, love and loss, and of the deceit that can lie at the heart of family relationships. Set in California, Liarti and Saintd follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present. In a family driven as much by jealousy and propriety as by love, an unspoken tradition of deceit is passed from generation to generation. When tragedy shatters their precarious domestic lives, it takes astonishing courage and compassion to bring them back together. By turns funny and disturbing,... Tovább

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"A spectacular first novel." —the new york times book review
"A tour de force." —the boston globe
"Maile Melöy combines the meticulous realism of domestic fiction with the witchery of a natural-born storyteller."
--the new york times magazine
With her first novel, Liard and Saintd, award-winning author Maile Meloy more than delivers on the promise of her highly acclaimed debut story collection, HaLf in Love. This richly textured novel tells a story of sex and longing, love and loss, and of the deceit that can lie at the heart of family relationships. Set in California, Liarti and Saintd follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present. In a family driven as much by jealousy and propriety as by love, an unspoken tradition of deceit is passed from generation to generation. When tragedy shatters their precarious domestic lives, it takes astonishing courage and compassion to bring them back together. By turns funny and disturbing, irreverent and profound, Liard and Saintd is a masterful display of Maile Meloy s prodigious gifts and of her penetrating insight into an extraordinary American family and into the nature of human love.
"Remarkable Bittersweet, wise, with a fantastic sense of character and history Fifteen minutes after opening this book, a reader is apt not just to care about the Santerres but also to feel like one of them."
-san francisco chronicle
MAILE MELOY'S short-story collection, HaLf in Love, won the
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PEN/Malamud Award and the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her fiction has also appeared in The Parid Review, The New Yorker, axiá. Bedt New American Voiced. She lives in California. Vissza