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Book SynopsisNOW A MAJOR TV SERIES: the critically acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling epic, a saga of land, blood and power, follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the oil booms of the 20th centuryTrade Review'
Stunning ... a book that for once really does deserve to be called
a masterpiece' -- Kate Atkinson
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Magnificent ... McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a point of reference, as is
There Will Be Blood, but it is not fanciful to be
reminded of certain passages from Moby-Dick - it's that good' * The Times *
'Only in the
greatest of historical novels do we come to feel both the distance of the past and our own likely complicity in the sins of a former age, had we been a part of it.
To that rank, we now add The Son' * New York Times *
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The Son makes a viable claim to be
a Great American Novel... an extraordinary orchestration of American history' * Washington Post *
'Its viscerality and boundless capacity for storytelling puts it
on a par with the classic of the genre, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian' * Sunday Telegraph *
'Brilliant ... a wonderful novel' -- Lionel Shriver
'Meyer is an
impressive and multi-talented storyteller in the old, good sense – the kind that makes me
hang on for whatever the next chapter will hold' -- Richard Ford
‘
The Son is an
epic, heroic, hallucinatory
work of art’ -- Chris Cleave
