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Praise for A Ladder to the Sky:Washington Post: "50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2018"An ABA IndieNext Pick Esquire: "Best Books of 2018 (So Far)"Town & Country: "5 Books You Need to Read in November"Vulture: "Best New Books of November"Minneapolis Star Tribune: Best Books of 2018"“Boyne's mastery of perspective, last seen in 2017's The Heart's Invisible Furies, works beautifully here….Boyne understands that it's far more interesting and satisfying for a reader to see that narcissist in action than to be told a catchall phrase. Each step Maurice Swift takes skyward reveals a new layer of calumny he's willing to engage in, and the desperation behind it….so dark it seems almost impossible to enjoy reading A Ladder to the Sky as much as you definitely will enjoy reading it.” —NPR“John Boyne’s delicious new novel A Ladder to the Sky… spins out over several decades with thrilling unpredictability, following Maurice as he masters the art of co-opting the stories of others in increasingly dubious ways. And while the book reads as a thriller with a body count that would make Highsmith proud, it is also an exploration of morality and art: Where is the line between inspiration and thievery? To whom does a story belong?”—Vanity Fair“Maurice has the heart of a sniper… marvelously engaging, barbed and witty.” —New York Times Book Review“A darkly funny novel that races like a beating heart.”– People“Maurice Swift may not be much of a novelist, but he inhabits a literary tradition going to back to Patricia Highsmith. Boyne’s protagonist is Tom Ripley as literary climber... Boyne’s novel is about high literature but has lower, juicier ambitions, at which it wildly succeeds.”– Vulture"For Patricia Highsmith fans, thriller aficionados, writers, publishers, literary wannabees, scoundrel sympathizers, John Boyne offers the perfect entertainment for dark winter days." – Boston Globe“A taut and gripping novel… as craftily written as Swift himself.”– Esquire“It’s dark, it’s funny, it’s the most unusual read I had this year….You will read it like that. Highly recommend it.”–HARLAN COBEN for NBC Today Show holiday gift picks"A Talented Mr. Ripley-esque novel of greed and deceit." – New York Post“John Boyne’s new novel charts the rise and fall of an antihero cut from the same cloth as Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley…. Darkly comic and deliciously vicious, this mesmerizing portrait of a ruthless psychopath explores artistic endeavor, creative ambition and ‘whether our stories belong to us at all.’” – Minneapolis Star Tribune"A Ladder to the Sky is clever, chilling and beautifully paced; a study of inner corrosion that Patricia Highsmith herself could not have done better... wickedly astute." –The Times (London) "Maurice Swift is a literary Tom Ripley . . . a first-class page turner." –The Guardian"A deliciously dark tale of ambition, seduction and literary theft . . . compelling and terrifying . . . powerful and intensely unsettling . . . in Maurice Swift, Boyne has given us an unforgettable protagonist, dangerous and irresistible in equal measure. The result is an ingeniously conceived novel that confirms Boyne as one of the most assured writers of his generation." – The Observer “Are novelists, by definition, monsters? John Boyne raises this provocative possibility in “A Ladder to the Sky”… A deft plotter, Boyne has fun with the idea that vampiring is simply part of what novelists do, and he implicates readers in their acts of thievery-as-creation by making us like despicable Maurice, almost against our will.” – Minneapolis Star Tribune“Deliciously venomous… A Ladder to the Sky is an entertaining, if deeply cynical portrait of the literary world.” – Bookpage"Boyne’s fast-paced, white-knuckle plot, accompanied by delightfully sardonic commentary on the ego, insecurities, and pitfalls of those involved in the literary world, makes for a truly engrossing experience."– Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Boyne expertly explores notions of originality and authorship through multiple first-person accounts of the despicable Swift. As a result, his latest novel is absorbing, horrifying, and recommended.”– Library Journal (starred review) “An all-consuming ambition to be a successful writer drives a young man down unusual paths to literary acclaim in this compelling character study…. Boyne's singular villain and well-sustained tension merit a good audience.” – Kirkus (starred review) “Well-crafted...The novel unfolds in an extremely layered manner, but what Swift’s story slowly reveals says much about publishing, pride, deceit, and plagiarism—and worse, much worse.”– Booklist"Maurice Swift, as cold and manipulative a character as you’re likely to meet this year . . . the story takes an ever darkening series of twists and turns . . . John Boyne is a master storyteller . . . this chilling and darkly comic tale of unrelenting ambition." – Express"Skillfully constructed, and above all, compulsively entertaining...The finest novel of the year."– The Irish Examiner "A dark morality tale in the mold of Patricia Highsmith . . . consistently intriguing." – Daily Mail “As a study in the self-rationalizing ‘ethics’ of a psychopath, this book is fascinating. As a story, it is horrifically plausible.” – The Sunday Independent "A riot of a read… An author at the top of his game who knows exactly what he wants to say.” – The Sunday Times “Irresistibly readable and darkly funny.” – The Irish Independent"A highly enjoyable romp that lifts the lid on authorial vanity and jealousy and an intelligent take on cultural appropriation." – Monocle"Boyne has had fun creating a charismatic psychopath . . . it’s engrossing stuff." – Saga"Boyne delivers a perfect balance of pace and detail to keep you gripped throughout."– i Newspaper
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About the Author
JOHN BOYNE was born in Ireland in 1971. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, five for younger readers and a collection of short stories. His 2006 novel The Boy In the Stiped Pajamas sold 9 million copies worldwide and has been adapted for cinema, theatre, ballet and opera. John has won three Irish Book Awards and many other international literary awards and his novels are published in over 50 languages. He lives in Dublin.
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Product details
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Hogarth (November 13, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1984823019
ISBN-13: 978-1984823014
Product Dimensions:
6.4 x 1.2 x 9.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
122 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#14,543 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
A Ladder to the Sky is so hard to describe properly but it's so damn good that I'm going to give it a try: man without scruples (or empathy, or any basic human emotions, really) wants more than anything to be an author. Never mind the fact that he can't write.Is he a success?You betcha!Oh, Maurice. From the start, when a late in life moderately successful author, Erich, sees you and is instantly besotted, you take his time, his money, and a story from his past and boom! You're on your way.Getting there, you encounter Dash, who also becomes besotted, and use him to make sure you wedge open every door in publishing you can, with an unsuccessful encounter with Gore Vidal (!) along the way.The brief interlude with Gore Vidal was my favorite (say what you will about Gore Vidal, but he was deeply aware of the human capacity for terrible behavior) until there's the section narrated by:Edith. Up and coming British author, madly in love with Maurice, and oh! She's my favorite. So full of charm and passion and with such a bright future. And that second book she's working on...Well.Maurice, you "help" that along, don't you?Then, finally, you're a huge success, with an actual literary magazine, Stori (the title seems to have punctuation of some " at the end, naturally) and you have your own other heart's desire, a child. Your very own son, Daniel.Too bad children are so much work. And so needy! But he's a bright boy and he does love to read. Of course, there's that pesky asthma. Still. Onward! There are more ideas to steal, (convient, to run a magazine every aspiring author appears to want to be in) more novels to write. More fame to be had.And then, you're older and no longer published but maybe, with this doctoral student, Theo, who has been sniffing around (and who has a big publishing house editor father!), there's still one last idea to be found and appropriated (because, really, it's not the writing that's hard, it's the idea!) perhaps it's time for one more great novel...Ladder to the Sky is a deft skewering of publishing while still managing to be a love letter to both books and the way the very best of them work, by laying bare some part of what our best and worst selves are.Oh, and Maurice? The main character, on whose life so many authors enter (and exit)?Sociopath. (On a good day, mind!)Ladders to the Sky has to be experienced. It manages to be full of life while its main character is best at stealing it, full of love (again, while Maurice has none), and a love letter to the power of words starring someone with no real facility for them. It's brilliant, it's thoughtful and yes, it's core character has none of these traits.And the ending! Oh, I laughed out loud as Maurice recounts his last act of "writing." (And how the publishing world receives it)Ladder to the Sky is, hands down, one of the most twisted love letters to books and their power I've read. IOne of the best books of 2018.
From start to finish the lines of this novel are blurred by the relentless pursuit of fame by the protagonist, Maurice. Knowing nothing about the story line I initially found the change of structure unsettling. Indeed, for some many pages, I was not sure whether there was a connection with the various narrators. On the edge of giving up, I realised I was in fact reading a triumphant piece of multi layered fiction, which was on the edge of being a thriller. But what will enthrall is not the dark side of Maurice but his drive to become a writer. John Boyne takes you inside not only his mind but those of his wife, Edith and others as they all yearn to become authors. Towards the end, if I have one criticism, I became rather bored by the London pub meetings Maurice has with Theo, when the dialogue between the two risked loosing my interest but it lead to one of the most extraordinary and powerful endings of any book I have read. I cannot imagine what it must be like for an author to write so technically and critically about.......writing a book. It is a masterclass of fiction and only the second (War & Peace my first) novel that I would ever consider reading again.
I am a huge fan of the novels of John Boyne, from The Heart's Invisible Furies to A History of Loneliness to The Absolutist. His novels are definite page turners: suspenseful; well-plotted; full of surprises, and---as in Invisible Furies, for instance, filled with memorable, heart-rending and very well-executed scenes (Amsterdam, the hospital death scene, etc.). However, things happen in Boyne's latest novel A Ladder to the Sky that seem to push the limits of the reader's credibility, although I admire Boyne for striving in this book for something a little more experimental. It is very difficult to believe that a character as diabolical, as clever and as cautious as Maurice would, in the end, be caught in the trap of Theo Field. In fact, some of their pub dialogues just don't ring true. They seem a bit contrived. And the novel's conclusion seems laughable. Is the novel a satire? It doesn't seem so. Nor does it work as a morality tale. Additionally, the Interlude involving Gore Vidal is digressive, albeit brilliant and entertaining. And the development of the relationship between Maurice and his son Daniel doesn't seem drawn well or convincingly. Some shifts in point of view also seem awkward, jarring and unnecessary, such as the switch to Edith's point of view. Overall, I still liked the novel---and I remain a John Boyne fan. It's a book---like his others---that you will find hard to put down. It's intriguing. But it seems a little more---uneven?----than some of his previous works.
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