Edward Hoagland. (2016). In the Country of the Blind: A Novel. Arcade.

Edward Hoagland. 2016. In the Country of the Blind: A Novel. Arcade.

Edward Hoagland, In the Country of the Blind: A Novel. Arcade, 2016.

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     Edward Hoagland has written more than two dozen books in sixty years, including the novel Children are Diamonds (Arcade), and his recent short story collection Devil's Tub (Arcade). He worked in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus while attending Harvard, and he later traveled the world from Yemen to Antarctica to Assam, writing for national magazines. He has received numerous literary awards and taught at ten colleges and universities. A native New Yorker, he divides his time between Martha's Vineyard and a farmhouse in the mountains of northern Vermont. (Barton, VT).

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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE
Sixty years after the publication of his first novel, Cat Man, Edward Hogland is publishing his twenty-fifth book at the age of eighty-three. This capstone novel, set in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, introduces Press, a stockbroker going blind. Press has lost his job and his wife and is trying to figure out his next move, holed up in his Vermont cabin surrounded by a hippy commune, drug runners, farmers-gone-bust, blood-thirsty auctioneers, and general ne'er-do-wells. Solace and purpose come from the unlikeliest sources as he learns to navigate his new landscape without sight. Hoagland, himself, is going blind, and through this evocative, unsentimental novel, we experience the world closing in around Press, the rising panic of uncertainty, the isolation of exile, the increasing dependence upon the kindness of strangers, and a whole new appreciation of the world just beyond sight.
Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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   • source: The New York Times Book Review
   • content: “Edward Hoagland's quiet, emotionally complex novel . . . not to mention his creator's searching and abundant writings over a 60-year career, [is] well worth the ride."
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   • source: Phillip Lopate
   • content: "Does anyone write better than Edward Hoagland? I doubt it, and this is one of his best novels--taut, tender, and true."
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   • source: Burlington Free Press
   • content: "His twenty-fifth and best book to date...More than any writer since Thoreau, Edward Hoagland has spent a lifetime celebrating the world we live in for all its tattered glory, and our own."
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   • source: Library Journal
   • content: “Touching but unsentimental, the narrative evokes the whole of a man with the gentle, thoughtful, and precise words that epitomize Hoagland's writing. Fine reading and essential for fans of the author's oeuvre."
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   • source: Kirkus Reviews (starred)
   • content: "A treasure on multiple levels, the novel leads us into its protagonist's sensory world with such ease, intimacy, and humor the 83-year-old Hoagland--who is going blind himself--seems to be in our thoughts as much as we are in his. Taking leave of Press is no easy task.The incomparable Hoagland's 25th book is not only one of the most rewarding novels of the year, it's also one of the sexiest."
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   • source: Booklist
   • content: “Exquisite . . . a masterful work"
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   • source: Ann Beattie
   • content: "Edward Hoagland's collected stories are dazzling. The characters are sometimes in the spotlight (not always; sometimes the light is very dim, indeed): fancy cowboys and competitive motorcycle racers – that light a harsh one, except for the modulations, the perfect pitch, the empathy and real-world-awareness the writer puts on display. I'm not the most likely audience for stories about fighters and men on the run from bears, but you know what? The writer cornered me and dragged me into this glorious, furious, believable, yet incredible mess. I'm on the sidelines, totally involved, eating my heart out with admiration. Every story has its own intrinsic logic, every conclusion its understated and elegant power punch. Read this book, please."
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   • source: Garrison Keillor
   • content: “A gritty cinematic story wrapped in brilliant African detail, mesmerizing, from the unforgettable opening scene, on to the end. Quite simply, a masterpiece."
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   • source: John Irving
   • content: “Edward Hoagland has long been both a resolute explorer and a preternaturally versatile writer. He's written more nonfiction than fiction, but what he brings to this terrifying novel--I mean, in addition to his humane vision and exquisite craft--is everything he has learned (as Graham Greene learned) from the world. The range and depth of Hoagland's travel books, and of his many remarkable essays, are on display in this novel set in Africa, where killing and sexual brutality are juxtaposed with humanitarian care. Hoagland's aid workers are damaged souls, but they haven't quit. In a world of unbearable inhumanity, what comes across in this intrepid novel is the power of doing the right thing--even, or especially, in a moral outback."
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    • source: New York Times
    • content: “Children Are Diamonds is the latest addition to a remarkable collection of books about the war in southern Sudan that evokes the time and place with haunting imagery. Hoagland aptly captures the lives of Western do-gooders and opportunists lured by the adrenaline rush of Africa, evoking the closeness, and the randomness, of death in a war zone."
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    • source: Annie Proulx
    • content: Praise for Edward Hoagland:
      “Hoagland is our wild world's literary virtuoso."
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    • source: Saul Bellow
    • content: “One of the very best writers of his generation."
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      Having lost his job, his wife, and nearly all of his eyesight, a former Merrill Lynch stockbroker braves a strange but compelling new existence in northern Vermont among hippies, drug dealers, evangelicals, and struggling farmers.We are in the Vietnam era. Much of the time, the aged Press lives a life of "banal loneliness" in a small farm cabin, listening to Bach and Mozart on a Montreal radio station--sounds inseparable from "the creak of his swing on the porch, barn swallows harvesting bugs overhead, a teacher bird, and a wood thrush's liquid fluting." As much out of curiosity or boredom as compassion, the locals take an interest in him--especially Carol, an artist who lives on a nearby commune. She becomes his driver, social guide, caretaker, tease, and unexpected sex partner. In her company, he finds himself pushing past perceived limitations and brushing off his ex-wife's recommendation that he move into a nursing home. Never mind the dealers who are secretly storing marijuana in his shed. Long on surprises, his new life proves as richly revealing as it is unsettling. A treasure on multiple levels, the novel leads us into its protagonist's sensory world with such ease, intimacy, and humor the 83-year-old Hoagland--who is going blind himself--seems to be in our thoughts as much as we are in his. Taking leave of Press is no easy task.The incomparable Hoagland's 25th book is not only one of the most rewarding novels of the year, it's also one of the sexiest. COPYRIGHT(1) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      December 1, 2016
      

      Sixty years after the publication of his first novel, Hoagland, best known and celebrated for his nature and travel essays (e.g., Notes from the Century Before), presents this brief, final piece of fiction. Like Hoagland himself, the narrator, whose name is Press, is going blind. Press lives in northeast Vermont near a hippie commune, failing farmers, and drug traffickers, and he gladly accepts much-needed help and any kindness offered to him. Once a successful stockbroker, now unemployed and divorced, he is concerned about his small monthly income; his two young children, whom he misses terribly; and where he will spend his coming days. Should he succumb to the safety and security of an assisted living facility, join the commune, or seek another alternative? Press's ever-increasing sense of isolation and loneliness as his precious little sight decreases makes him truly grateful for his experiences with nature and friends past and present. VERDICT Touching but unsentimental, the narrative evokes the whole of a man with the gentle, thoughtful, and precise words that epitomize Hoagland's writing. Fine reading and essential for fans of the author's oeuvre.--Lisa Rohrbaugh, Leetonia Community P.L., OH

      Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      September 15, 2016
      Acclaimed essayist and nature writer Hoagland's (The Devil's Tub, 2014) exquisite new novel evokes many of the same themes as his most celebrated nonfiction. As the conflict in Vietnam is escalating, Press struggles to adjust to the degenerative condition that has robbed him of his sight. Living out his days in a Vermont summer cottage, the former stockbroker, accustomed to a life of country clubs and dinner parties, must now rely on the kindness of his new hardscrabble neighbors, including Carol, a young mother, artist, and member of a local commune of hippies with whom he engages in a complicated yet tender relationship. Small-town lifethe toils, troubles, and hard-won wisdom of the inhabitantsis shrewdly observed and lovingly depicted. The vivid yet languid prose adds authenticity to the first-person narration as Press describes what he hears and feels but cannot see. Hoagland, who is himself blind, employs a precise rendering of the senses in service to crafting a masterful work. For readers of Thomas McGuane and Jim Harrison.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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      Starred review from September 1, 2016
      Having lost his job, his wife, and nearly all of his eyesight, a former Merrill Lynch stockbroker braves a strange but compelling new existence in northern Vermont among hippies, drug dealers, evangelicals, and struggling farmers.We are in the Vietnam era. Much of the time, the aged Press lives a life of "banal loneliness" in a small farm cabin, listening to Bach and Mozart on a Montreal radio station--sounds inseparable from "the creak of his swing on the porch, barn swallows harvesting bugs overhead, a teacher bird, and a wood thrush's liquid fluting." As much out of curiosity or boredom as compassion, the locals take an interest in him--especially Carol, an artist who lives on a nearby commune. She becomes his driver, social guide, caretaker, tease, and unexpected sex partner. In her company, he finds himself pushing past perceived limitations and brushing off his ex-wife's recommendation that he move into a nursing home. Never mind the dealers who are secretly storing marijuana in his shed. Long on surprises, his new life proves as richly revealing as it is unsettling. A treasure on multiple levels, the novel leads us into its protagonist's sensory world with such ease, intimacy, and humor the 83-year-old Hoagland--who is going blind himself--seems to be in our thoughts as much as we are in his. Taking leave of Press is no easy task.The incomparable Hoagland's 25th book is not only one of the most rewarding novels of the year, it's also one of the sexiest.

      COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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