Exiles: A Novel
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.28 (806 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312428340 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Their journey would end when the Deutschland ran aground at the mouth of the Thames and all five drowned. Ron Hansen tells their harrowing story, but also that of the poet and seminarian Gerard Manly Hopkins, and how the shipwreck moved him to write a grand poem, a revelatory work read throughout the world today. On board were five nuns, exiled by a ban on religious orders, bound to begin their lives anew in Missouri. Combining a thrilling tragedy at sea, with the seeming shipwreck of Hopkins's own life, "Hansen brilliantly, if soberly, weaves two interrelated story lines into a riveting novel" (Booklist on Exiles).. In December 1875 the steamship Deutschland left Bremen, Germany, bound for America
Kerry Walters said "We sometimes seem God's playthings. The dice he rolls.". After reading Ron Hansen's 199""We sometimes seem God's playthings. The dice he rolls."" according to Kerry Walters. After reading Ron Hansen's 1992 Mariette In Ecstasy, I thought: "This is it. This is the peak of his career as a novelist. Hansen will never be able to top this."I was wrong. His new novel, Exiles, a curious and effective combination of novel and biography, is the best thing he's done to date. It left me breathless.In the novel, Hansen cuts back and forth between the lives and death of the wonderful, bewildering, and innovative poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, and five German Franciscan nuns, America-bound, who perished when the "Deutschland" hit a sandbar off the British coast in the dead of winter. Hopkins wa. Mariette In Ecstasy, I thought: "This is it. This is the peak of his career as a novelist. Hansen will never be able to top this."I was wrong. His new novel, Exiles, a curious and effective combination of novel and biography, is the best thing he's done to date. It left me breathless.In the novel, Hansen cuts back and forth between the lives and death of the wonderful, bewildering, and innovative poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, and five German Franciscan nuns, America-bound, who perished when the "Deutschland" hit a sandbar off the British coast in the dead of winter. Hopkins wa. Wonderful writing Amazon Customer This is a wonderful book about the poet Gerard M. Hopkins and how he came to write the Wreck of the Deutchland, along with the story of the Franciscan Sisters whose death in that shipwreck so moved Fr. Hopkins. I enjoyed this book for several reasons. First, Ron Hansen is just such a fine writer. All of his books are so well done, and this one especially was very touching, truly looking at the deepdown things, as Hopkins might have said. In a strange way, the story of the sisters parallels that of Hopkins -- the sisters died so terribly in the freezing water and wind, playthings of God it seemed. In anothe. "finally a fiction book about gerard manley hopkins!" according to John R. Edson. I just finished reading this very interesting book and encourage anyone who loves the works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ to read it also. The author skillfully weaves the story of the five German sisters who died on the ship Deutschland with the story of the Jesuit poet, G.M. Hopkins, as he converted to Roman Catholicism, entered the Society of Jesus and wrote an epic poem about the shipwrecked deaths of the five sisters. The author sprinkles in many words or phrases that seem to come from Hopkins' poetic vocabulary and he fleshes out a story that shows the prolonged deaths of the five nuns who were coming
Those acts ostracize him from his family and silence his poetry. . From Publishers Weekly Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) wrote some of the most beautiful and innovative poetry in English of the late 19th century. Hansen finds in the difficult paths of six remarkable people the pursuit of a tranquil, soothing God of intimacy and tolerance and unquenchable love. In parallel with Hopkins's story, Hansen explores the event that jolts Hopkins back into writing in 1875: the sinking of the Deutschland—whose victims include five Catholic nuns exiled from Germany by Bismarck—at the mouth of the Thames. (May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Fans of Hopkins's verse will cherish the chance to revisit the astonishing 280-line The Wreck of the Deutschland, reprinted as a coda. As for Hopkins, his poetry is poorly receive