The son philipp meyer book

The son by philipp meyer ecco what follows is a spectacular captivity narrative. John burnside on a remarkable novel about empirebuilding and our potential for moral courage. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the son. The rise and fall of a texas family made rich in the oil and cattle businesses is detailed in the novel the son by philipp meyer. A texas saga with guilt and gore to go around philipp meyers second novel is a centuriesspanning family saga that chronicles the growth of. More books by philipp meyer if you liked the son, try these. In the first few pages of the son, philipp meyers followup to the highly praised american rust, a 100yearold man called eli mccullough describes the texas he knew, before its glories were.

To research the novel, meyer read more than 250 books on the west. Philipp meyer is an american fiction writer, and is the author of the novels american rust and the son, as well as short stories published in the new yorker and other places. The son is the second novel of american writer philipp meyer. Philipp meyer offers a tale that spans generations and, in its own way, encapsulates the history of the state itself. Philipp meyer grew up in a working class neighborhood in baltimore. The story spans six generations of the mccullough family from the time it claimed its first headright in texas through its rise to great wealth to its tragic end. And thats because philipp meyer, author of the son. Philipp meyers second novel is a centuriesspanning family saga that. The words of edward gibbon bookend philipp meyer s novel the son, a luxuriantly big book that tells a very texan story of decline and fall. Philipp meyers the son isnt just one of the most exciting texas novels in years, its one of the most solid, unsparing pieces of american. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.

He is a graduate of cornell university and has an mfa from the university of texas at austin, where he was a james michener fellow. What a pleasure it is now to see meyer confirm all that initial enthusiasm with a second book thats even. The words of edward gibbon bookend philipp meyers novel the son, a luxuriantly big book that tells a very texan story of decline and fall. By the novels end, philipp meyer has demonstrated that he can write a potboiler of the first rank, aswirl with pulpy pleasures. The acclaimed author of american rust, returns with the son. The book proves that every tiny detail matters to philipp meyers story. It was an economist book of the year, a washington post top ten book of the year, and a new york times notable book. Philipp meyer deftly explores how elis ruthlessness and steely pragmatism transform subsequent generations of mcculloughs. Published in 20 the novel was loosely conceived as the second in a thematic trilogy on the american myth following meyer s first novel, american rust. Moving from the plains of wyoming to tennessee, sebastian barrys latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. Meyer also created and produced the amc television show based on his novel. The novel focuses on three generations of the mccullough family. Read free book excerpt from the son by philipp meyer, page 1 of 2. Eli mccullough, the vicious patriarch who was the first male child born in the newly formed texas, his son peter.