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   Jun 13, 2013 · By the novel’s end, Philipp Meyer has demonstrated that he can write a potboiler of the first rank, aswirl with pulpy pleasures: impossible love affairs, illicit sex, strife between fathers...

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   Is Philipp Meyer a potboiler?

   • By the novel’s end, Philipp Meyer has demonstrated that he can write a potboiler of the first rank, aswirl with pulpy pleasures: impossible love affairs, illicit sex, strife between fathers and sons, the unhappiness of the rich, the corruptions of power. (It might have been called “Gone With the Oil.”)

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   Who is Philipp Meyer?

   • Philipp Meyer first drew attention a few years ago with his debut novel American Rust, set in a dying steel town in Pennsylvania. Meyer says that in his first novel he wanted to explore the decline of the middle class in the industrial northeast. He set his sights on a different direction for The Son.

   'The Son': A Texas Saga With Guilt And Gore To Go Around

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   Is Philipp Meyer's “the son” a hooey?

   • Philipp Meyer’s masterly second novel, “The Son,” an epic of the American Southwest, represents a darkly exhilarating alternative to that sort of historical hooey. Like Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian,” it allows the past its otherness and its characters the dignity of blundering through the world as it was.

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   Why did Meyer write 'the son'?

   • Meyer says that in his first novel he wanted to explore the decline of the middle class in the industrial northeast. He set his sights on a different direction for The Son. "With The Son I wanted to do something not quite the opposite, but certainly different," he says.

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   May 25, 2013 · Review: "The Son," by Philipp Meyer. ... that he was on to something larger than Ferber's 1952 potboiler. And while it was Cormac McCarthy who brutally preached that America was founded in a river ...

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   Jul 24, 2013 · The visitor is Edna Ferber, and her big Texas potboiler appeared in 1952 as Giant. Meyer’s own fiction is more ambitious than Ferber’s, his prose more supple. He is as savvy about native...

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   Sep 1, 2012 · Philipp Meyer has demonstrated that he can write a potboiler of the first rank, aswirl with pulpy pleasures: impossible love affairs, illicit sex, strife between fathers and sons, the unhappiness of the rich, the corruptions of power. Read Full Review >> Rave Janet Maslin, The New York Times.

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   May 28, 2013 · Philipp Meyer's second novel is a centuries-spanning family saga that chronicles the growth of Texas. Many hands are bloodied in the novel's conflicts: between settlers and Native Americans ...

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   Mar 7, 2017 · “By the novel’s end, Philipp Meyer has demonstrated that he can write a potboiler of the first rank, aswirl with pulpy pleasures: impossible love affairs, illicit sex, strife between fathers and sons, the unhappiness of the rich, the corruption of power.” — New York Times Book Review “Sweeping, absorbing epic. . .