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Name: the watch and clockmakers handbook 1881
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Title: The Watch & Clockmakers' Handbook
Author: Frederick James Britten
Language: angielski
Year: 2023
Subjects: Fiction, Awards, Literature, American Fiction, Fiction Subjects, Historical Fiction, 21st Century American Fiction, Settings & Atmosphere - Fiction, Body, Mind & Health - Fiction, Family & Friendship - Fiction, 19th Century Historical Fiction - General & Miscellaneous, Hospitals - Fiction, Mental Health & Mental Illness - Fiction, Mothers & Daughters - Fiction, 2021-2025->Fiction->Pulitzer Prize, 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780451493347
Total pages: 179

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From one of our most accomplished novelists, a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War-and a brilliant portrait of family endurance against all odds

"A tour de force." -Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a war veteran who has forced himself into their world. There, far from family, a beloved neighbor, and the mountain home they knew, they try to reclaim their lives.

The omnipresent vagaries of war and race rise to the surface as we learn their story: their flight to the highest mountain ridges of western Virginia; the disappearance of ConaLee's father, who left for the War and never returned. Meanwhile, in the asylum, they begin to find a new path. ConaLee pretends to be her mother's maid; Eliza responds slowly to treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facility-the mysterious man they call the Night Watch; the orphan child called Weed; the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen; the remarkable doctor at the head of the institution.

Epic, enthralling, and meticulously crafted, Night Watch is a stunning chronicle of surviving war and its aftermath.