A Shout in the Ruins

Author:   Kevin Powers
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Pages:   272
Publication Date:   10 January 2019
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One of the Amazon Editors' Best Books of 2018 Following his hugely celebrated debut novel, The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers returns to the battlefield and its aftermath, this time in his native Virginia, just before and during the Civil War and ninety years later. The novel pinpoints with unerring emotional depth the nature of random violence, the necessity of love and compassion, and the fragility and preciousness of life. It will endure as a stunning novel about what we leave behind, what a life is worth, what is said and unsaid, and the fact that ultimately what will survive of us is love. 'An American Civil War epic [which] confirms Powers as a significant talent.' Observer 'Gorgeous and devastating' New York Times 'Achingly relevant.' Grazia

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Author:   Kevin Powers
Publisher:   Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:   Sceptre
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.200kg
ISBN:  

9781473667815


ISBN 10:   147366781
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   10 January 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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Powers has written a compassionate, poetic evocation of war and its legacy which has already been hailed as a classic of its genre. * Sunday Express Books of the Year * This is a novel I've been waiting for. The Yellow Birds is born from experience and rendered with compassion and intelligence. All of us owe Kevin Powers our heartfelt gratitude. -- Alice Sebold Written with an intensity which is deeply compelling. -- Colm Toibin Kevin Powers has conjured a poetic and devastating account of war's effect on the individual. -- Damian Lewis Harrowing, inexplicably beautiful, and utterly, urgently necessary. -- Ann Patchett A wonderful, powerful novel that moves and terrifies. * Independent * Remarkable for its intensity of both feeling and expression. In this book about death, every line is a defiant assertion of the power of beauty to revivify, whether beauty shows itself in nature or (later) in art. -- Hilary Mantel * Guardian Books of the Year * A stunning achievement - visceral [and] poignant. * Sunday Times * A masterpiece . . . a classic. * The Times Books of the Year * PRAISE FOR THE YELLOW BIRDS: Extraordinary . . . beautifully accomplished. The mark of an artist of the first order . . . a must-read book. -- John Burnside * Guardian * Beautifully formed sentences express unsettling truths about humanity, yet tendrils of hope emerge, showing how love and kindness can take root in seemingly barren earth. -- Sarah Johnson * Bookli * Suitably unvarnished, but not without moments of beauty or deep emotion. A Shout in the Ruins brushes aside myth and romanticism for a clear-eyed look at America. * Shelf Awareness * With a complex structure reminiscent of Faulkner, Powers adroitly weaves his narrative threads together with subtle connections that reinforce his themes of longing for coherence and the continuing effect of the past on the present. An impressive novel of slavery, destruction, and the arduous difficulties of love. * Kirkus * This second novel, set in Powers's hometown of Richmond, VA, probes the grip of traumatic memory in the aftermath of the Civil War . . . A masterly meditation on our unbreakable connection to a world predicated on cyclical violence. -- Joshua Finnell, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY A masterpiece. Powers has written a novel that includes all the ferocity, complexity, and racial violence of the American South, from its fall to its eventual rebirth. -- Philipp Meyer Ambitious. -- Anthony Cummins * Metro * Contains moments that burn. * Daily Mail * Kevin Powers has seamlessly woven nineteenth and twentieth century lives to create a novel that resonates out of the past to address the most timely issues of America in our own century. The same striking language and contemplation of war and its aftermath that made The Yellow Birds such a lauded debut is on full display in A Shout in the Ruins. What an impressive novel. -- Ron Rash Possesses the same intimate, lyrical power as his haunting debut . . . This is a fine, relevant novel from a notable author. * BookPage * This troubling, stirring book is informed by Mr Powers's deep understanding of war's complexities, and of how people are broken and shaped by it. * The Economist * One of the chief rewards of this novel is that it speaks very much to the present through the generational interplay of its characters . . . It is told subtly and with great empathy: Powers once again demonstrates the precise eye for imagery and detail that is becoming the hallmark of his work. -- Elliot Ackerman * TLS * A daring voyage into and out of the darkest era in American history. * Observer * Ranging across time and following several characters whose lives become entangled by chance, family connection and conflict, Powers returns here - with similar, admirable compression - to themes he took up in his celebrated debut, The Yellow Birds . . . A Shout in the Ruins illuminates an entire lost era. -- Laird Hunt * Literary Review * The writing is beautiful and powerful. A Shout in the Ruins is confirmation, if it were needed, that Kevin Powers is a writer of rare talent. * FT * Powers's prose is lyrical. . . his evocation of slavery-era Richmond is powerfully achieved. -- Siobhan Murphy * The Times * A work of historical fiction that is as unflinching an examination of our capacity for cruelty and violence as his debut. . . Powers packs much into a relatively short work. . . there is no mistaking the intensity of his vision and his ability to conjure up scenes that stick in the mind. . . A novel that memorably illustrates not only the ways in which violence breeds further violence but also the unrelenting power of the past to shape the present. * Sunday Times * A harrowing and lyrical epic in miniature, Powers has written a novel excavated from another time, but which speaks profoundly to this one. -- Elliot Ackerman, author of <i>Dark at the Crossing</i> Achingly relevant. * Grazia * An American Civil War epic [which] confirms Powers as a significant talent. -- Andrew Motion * Observer *


'Gorgeous, devastating... As in his first novel, The Yellow Birds, Powers details these inhumane acts with elegance, restraint and a refreshing absence of sentimentality. His spare, meticulous sentences lend a perverse beauty to even the most brutal passages of the novel and give immediacy and emotional heft to the ordeals of its characters... lays bare the tremendous suffering on which our country was founded and demands its acknowledgment. But Powers also offers love and grace in these pages, and a prayer for redemption. * New York Times * Powers has written a compassionate, poetic evocation of war and its legacy which has already been hailed as a classic of its genre. * Sunday Express Books of the Year * This is a novel I've been waiting for. The Yellow Birds is born from experience and rendered with compassion and intelligence. All of us owe Kevin Powers our heartfelt gratitude. -- Alice Sebold Written with an intensity which is deeply compelling. -- Colm Toibin Kevin Powers has conjured a poetic and devastating account of war's effect on the individual. -- Damian Lewis Harrowing, inexplicably beautiful, and utterly, urgently necessary. -- Ann Patchett A wonderful, powerful novel that moves and terrifies. * Independent * Remarkable for its intensity of both feeling and expression. In this book about death, every line is a defiant assertion of the power of beauty to revivify, whether beauty shows itself in nature or (later) in art. -- Hilary Mantel * Guardian Books of the Year * A stunning achievement - visceral [and] poignant. * Sunday Times * A masterpiece . . . a classic. * The Times Books of the Year * PRAISE FOR THE YELLOW BIRDS: Extraordinary . . . beautifully accomplished. The mark of an artist of the first order . . . a must-read book. -- John Burnside * Guardian * Beautifully formed sentences express unsettling truths about humanity, yet tendrils of hope emerge, showing how love and kindness can take root in seemingly barren earth. -- Sarah Johnson * Bookli * Suitably unvarnished, but not without moments of beauty or deep emotion. A Shout in the Ruins brushes aside myth and romanticism for a clear-eyed look at America. * Shelf Awareness * With a complex structure reminiscent of Faulkner, Powers adroitly weaves his narrative threads together with subtle connections that reinforce his themes of longing for coherence and the continuing effect of the past on the present. An impressive novel of slavery, destruction, and the arduous difficulties of love. * Kirkus * This second novel, set in Powers's hometown of Richmond, VA, probes the grip of traumatic memory in the aftermath of the Civil War . . . A masterly meditation on our unbreakable connection to a world predicated on cyclical violence. -- Joshua Finnell, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY A masterpiece. Powers has written a novel that includes all the ferocity, complexity, and racial violence of the American South, from its fall to its eventual rebirth. -- Philipp Meyer Ambitious. -- Anthony Cummins * Metro * Contains moments that burn. * Daily Mail * Kevin Powers has seamlessly woven nineteenth and twentieth century lives to create a novel that resonates out of the past to address the most timely issues of America in our own century. The same striking language and contemplation of war and its aftermath that made The Yellow Birds such a lauded debut is on full display in A Shout in the Ruins. What an impressive novel. -- Ron Rash Possesses the same intimate, lyrical power as his haunting debut . . . This is a fine, relevant novel from a notable author. * BookPage * This troubling, stirring book is informed by Mr Powers's deep understanding of war's complexities, and of how people are broken and shaped by it. * The Economist * One of the chief rewards of this novel is that it speaks very much to the present through the generational interplay of its characters . . . It is told subtly and with great empathy: Powers once again demonstrates the precise eye for imagery and detail that is becoming the hallmark of his work. -- Elliot Ackerman * TLS * A daring voyage into and out of the darkest era in American history. * Observer * Ranging across time and following several characters whose lives become entangled by chance, family connection and conflict, Powers returns here - with similar, admirable compression - to themes he took up in his celebrated debut, The Yellow Birds . . . A Shout in the Ruins illuminates an entire lost era. -- Laird Hunt * Literary Review * The writing is beautiful and powerful. A Shout in the Ruins is confirmation, if it were needed, that Kevin Powers is a writer of rare talent. * FT * Powers's prose is lyrical. . . his evocation of slavery-era Richmond is powerfully achieved. -- Siobhan Murphy * The Times * A work of historical fiction that is as unflinching an examination of our capacity for cruelty and violence as his debut. . . Powers packs much into a relatively short work. . . there is no mistaking the intensity of his vision and his ability to conjure up scenes that stick in the mind. . . A novel that memorably illustrates not only the ways in which violence breeds further violence but also the unrelenting power of the past to shape the present. * Sunday Times * A harrowing and lyrical epic in miniature, Powers has written a novel excavated from another time, but which speaks profoundly to this one. -- Elliot Ackerman, author of <i>Dark at the Crossing</i> Achingly relevant. * Grazia * An American Civil War epic [which] confirms Powers as a significant talent. -- Andrew Motion * Observer *


Powers has written a compassionate, poetic evocation of war and its legacy which has already been hailed as a classic of its genre. * Sunday Express Books of the Year * This is a novel I've been waiting for. The Yellow Birds is born from experience and rendered with compassion and intelligence. All of us owe Kevin Powers our heartfelt gratitude. -- Alice Sebold Written with an intensity which is deeply compelling. -- Colm Toibin Kevin Powers has conjured a poetic and devastating account of war's effect on the individual. -- Damian Lewis Harrowing, inexplicably beautiful, and utterly, urgently necessary. -- Ann Patchett A wonderful, powerful novel that moves and terrifies. * Independent * Remarkable for its intensity of both feeling and expression. In this book about death, every line is a defiant assertion of the power of beauty to revivify, whether beauty shows itself in nature or (later) in art. -- Hilary Mantel * Guardian Books of the Year * A stunning achievement - visceral [and] poignant. * Sunday Times * A masterpiece . . . a classic. * The Times Books of the Year * PRAISE FOR THE YELLOW BIRDS: Extraordinary . . . beautifully accomplished. The mark of an artist of the first order . . . a must-read book. -- John Burnside * Guardian * This second novel, set in Powers's hometown of Richmond, VA, probes the grip of traumatic memory in the aftermath of the Civil War . . . A masterly meditation on our unbreakable connection to a world predicated on cyclical violence. -- Joshua Finnell, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY A masterpiece. Powers has written a novel that includes all the ferocity, complexity, and racial violence of the American South, from its fall to its eventual rebirth. -- Philipp Meyer Kevin Powers has seamlessly woven nineteenth and twentieth century lives to create a novel that resonates out of the past to address the most timely issues of America in our own century. The same striking language and contemplation of war and its aftermath that made The Yellow Birds such a lauded debut is on full display in A Shout in the Ruins. What an impressive novel. -- Ron Rash Beautifully formed sentences express unsettling truths about humanity, yet tendrils of hope emerge, showing how love and kindness can take root in seemingly barren earth. -- Sarah Johnson * Bookli * Suitably unvarnished, but not without moments of beauty or deep emotion. A Shout in the Ruins brushes aside myth and romanticism for a clear-eyed look at America. * Shelf Awareness * Contains moments that burn. * Daily Mail * Possesses the same intimate, lyrical power as his haunting debut . . . This is a fine, relevant novel from a notable author. * BookPage * Achingly relevant. * Grazia * With a complex structure reminiscent of Faulkner, Powers adroitly weaves his narrative threads together with subtle connections that reinforce his themes of longing for coherence and the continuing effect of the past on the present. An impressive novel of slavery, destruction, and the arduous difficulties of love. * Kirkus * This troubling, stirring book is informed by Mr Powers's deep understanding of war's complexities, and of how people are broken and shaped by it. * The Economist * One of the chief rewards of this novel is that it speaks very much to the present through the generational interplay of its characters . . . It is told subtly and with great empathy: Powers once again demonstrates the precise eye for imagery and detail that is becoming the hallmark of his work. -- Elliot Ackerman * TLS * A daring voyage into and out of the darkest era in American history. * Observer * A harrowing and lyrical epic in miniature, Powers has written a novel excavated from another time, but which speaks profoundly to this one. -- Elliot Ackerman, author of <i>Dark at the Crossing</i> Ranging across time and following several characters whose lives become entangled by chance, family connection and conflict, Powers returns here - with similar, admirable compression - to themes he took up in his celebrated debut, The Yellow Birds . . . A Shout in the Ruins illuminates an entire lost era. -- Laird Hunt * Literary Review * The writing is beautiful and powerful. A Shout in the Ruins is confirmation, if it were needed, that Kevin Powers is a writer of rare talent. * FT * Powers's prose is lyrical. . . his evocation of slavery-era Richmond is powerfully achieved. -- Siobhan Murphy * The Times * A work of historical fiction that is as unflinching an examination of our capacity for cruelty and violence as his debut. . . Powers packs much into a relatively short work. . . there is no mistaking the intensity of his vision and his ability to conjure up scenes that stick in the mind. . . A novel that memorably illustrates not only the ways in which violence breeds further violence but also the unrelenting power of the past to shape the present. * Sunday Times * 'Gorgeous, devastating... As in his first novel, The Yellow Birds, Powers details these inhumane acts with elegance, restraint and a refreshing absence of sentimentality. His spare, meticulous sentences lend a perverse beauty to even the most brutal passages of the novel and give immediacy and emotional heft to the ordeals of its characters... lays bare the tremendous suffering on which our country was founded and demands its acknowledgment. But Powers also offers love and grace in these pages, and a prayer for redemption. * New York Times * An American Civil War epic [which] confirms Powers as a significant talent. -- Andrew Motion * Observer *


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Kevin Powers' first novel, The Yellow Birds, won the Guardian First Book Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and was a National Book Award Finalist. His poetry collection, Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting, was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and Forward Prize. His second novel, A Shout in the Ruins, was published in 2018. Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, he graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the US Army in 2004 and 2005 in Mosul and Tal Afar, Iraq.

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