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Orient: A Novel door Christopher Bollen
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Orient: A Novel (origineel 2015; editie 2015)

door Christopher Bollen (Auteur)

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Suspenseful and haunting, Bollen's thrilling novel Orient is a provocative take on the troubled American dream, in the vein of Lionel Shriver or AM Homes. At the eastern edge of Long Island, far from the hustle of New York City, stands Orient, a village that has been home to a few families for hundreds of years and is now - reluctantly - opening up to wealthy weekenders and artists from the city. On the last day of summer, a young man with a hazy past appears, and not long after comes a series of events that shatters the peace in this isolated community. A strange, twisted creature washes ashore on the Sound and then a human corpse is found floating in the water. A woman dies in bizarre circumstances and a house fire erupts out of nowhere. Fear and suspicion mount until everyone's secrets threaten to be exposed. But who is Mills Chevern? What is his real name and why is he here? As all eyes shift towards the orphan drifter, Mills elicits the support of Beth Shepherd, an Orient native who is hiding a secret of her own.… (meer)
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Titel:Orient: A Novel
Auteurs:Christopher Bollen (Auteur)
Info:Harper (2015), Edition: 1St Edition, 624 pages
Verzamelingen:Jouw bibliotheek, 2015, Library books, Gelezen, maar niet in bezit
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Orient, sulla punta del North Fork di Long Island, affacciata sul braccio di mare che separa l'isola dal Connecticut. Meno famosa del South Fork, quella degli Hamptons, con relativi magnati dello show business newyorchese, attori e scrittori famosi. In questo paradiso marittimo dei falchi di mare, dei pescatori e delle fioriture selvagge, abitato dalle stesse famiglie da molte generazioni, arriva un giorno da New York Mills, un «drifter», un vagabondo, ex tossicodipendente, ex bambino abbandonato, passato da un affido all'altro. Ospite, in cambio di lavoro, di un signore che possiede una bella casa di famiglia da sgombrare e ristrutturare dopo la morte della madre, Mills viene accolto da subito con molta diffidenza nella comunità locale, tanto più che, dopo il suo arrivo, uno per volta, si cominciano a rinvenire numerosi corpi senza vita. Episodi di violenza mai visti prima nella tranquilla cittadina. Mills, con l'aiuto di Beth, ex artista e moglie in crisi di artista famoso, tornata a Orient dopo anni trascorsi a New York, decide di indagare su una pista parallela a quella della polizia, determinato a capire chi e che cosa c'è dietro il mistero, in una corsa contro il tempo prima che la piccola cittadina finisca per distruggerlo.
  Masnago69 | Aug 18, 2022 |
Long book. Some characters developed, others not as deeply. Author lived in Orient and seemed to want to include too many residents. ( )
  Sunandsand | Apr 30, 2022 |
Da accorciare di almeno un terzo. La storia è un classico esempio di giallo in ambiente chiuso, e non trovo nulla da recriminare, se non l'inutilità di frasi e passaggi, sembra quasi a voler allungare il brodo.
Il problema grave, anzi GRAVISSIMO, è l'apparente dicotomia della traduzione italiana: alcune parti sembrano tradotte con un software, mentre fortunatamente altre, soprattutto la seconda parte del romanzo, sono tradotte da un umano senziente. E non voglio nemmeno parlare degli errori di sintassi e grammatica, degli obbrobri terrificanti, da brividi ( )
  jo.mil | Feb 20, 2021 |
I don't recommend this book - it's over 600 pages long, which is at least 300 pages too much. The book is an exercise in author self-indulgence and simply too irritating to talk about further. ( )
2 stem flourgirl49 | Sep 11, 2016 |
Orient was a long, well-written whodunnit that I'm sure will end up as a movie someday soon in this 'Gone Girl' era. At the end of the American world, the eastern tip of Long Island, a man who grew up there returns for a visit along with a strange young man he'd met in NYC and murders begin to occur. Subplots are piled upon subplots (art, development, local history, extramarital affairs, etc.) leading to extreme confusion on the part of local law enforcement (and readers as well) as to who exactly is committing these murders. It's all tied up at the end, though, in what I'd consider to be a rather surprising way.

I've read comparisons of Bollen's writing to that of Franzen. I don't see it necessarily in his technique- although the writing is great he's not as interested in showing off his massive vocabulary as Franzen. As far as his approach with the subject matter of interpersonal dynamics in a 'family' and a small community, it's an apt comparison.

I wouldn't say I loved the book. It's too long and one almost needs a scorecard to keep track of the interactions, but I do love a well-written mystery and it definitely fits that bill. ( )
1 stem gmmartz | Jun 21, 2016 |
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This is how I first saw you, Long Island, on a map in the front seat of Paul Benchley's car. Like the body of a woman floating in New York harbor. It still amazes me that no one else sees the shape of a woman in that island sprawled along the coastline, her legs the two beach-lined forks that jut out to sea when the land splits, her hips and breasts the rocky inlets of oyster coves, her skill broken in the boroughs of New York City Even now, when I close my eyes and try to picture the place where all the trouble happened, I see her drifting there in the waters of the east. -Prologue
When the news spread that Paul Benchley was bringing a foster-care kid to stay with him rent-free at his house on Youngs Road, many of his neighbors were understandably concerned. They had seen, all too recently, what outsiders were capable of. Not three months ago, during the Sycamore High senior picnic, a row of car windows had been smash along Main Road. Some assumed it was a disgruntled student who'd failed out of Sycamore and was seeking revenge. But many more were sure it was the work of a delinquent, an unknown intruder pillaging the village for purses and electronics as Orient's proud graduating class danced on the nearby football field to bittersweet pop songs and the sex-and-fun ballads of hip-hop. -Chapter 1
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Suspenseful and haunting, Bollen's thrilling novel Orient is a provocative take on the troubled American dream, in the vein of Lionel Shriver or AM Homes. At the eastern edge of Long Island, far from the hustle of New York City, stands Orient, a village that has been home to a few families for hundreds of years and is now - reluctantly - opening up to wealthy weekenders and artists from the city. On the last day of summer, a young man with a hazy past appears, and not long after comes a series of events that shatters the peace in this isolated community. A strange, twisted creature washes ashore on the Sound and then a human corpse is found floating in the water. A woman dies in bizarre circumstances and a house fire erupts out of nowhere. Fear and suspicion mount until everyone's secrets threaten to be exposed. But who is Mills Chevern? What is his real name and why is he here? As all eyes shift towards the orphan drifter, Mills elicits the support of Beth Shepherd, an Orient native who is hiding a secret of her own.

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