Vendor
	Fritz Agency Christian Dittus
Original language
English

KINGDOMTIDE

Rye Curtis

DECENCY tells the story of a 72-year-old Texan woman named Cloris Waldrip who is the lone survivor of a small plane crash in the mountains of Montana. While mourning the loss of her husband, Cloris decides to fight for her life, something she is ill-prepared to do. As she struggles to stay alive, she receives help from the most unlikely person, and the experience changes who she is forever. Cloris narrates her adventure in the first person as a 90-something woman living in an assisted living facility and she is an unforgettable character. Meanwhile the second storyline, told in third person, centers around Park Ranger Lewis, a woman struggling with alcoholism and loneliness, just out of a messy divorce. While Cloris is literally lost, Lewis is equally lost in a metaphorical sense. She finds herself in the company of more people than she's accustomed to while she forms a search party for Cloris.

With brilliant plotting and original language, DECENCY is an incredibly moving and suspenseful debut novel.

Rye Curtis is 30 years old, originally from Amarillo, Texas, but now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Rye did his undergraduate degree at Columbia University where he was a student of James Hannaham's. DECENCY is his debut novel.

CLORIS
Deutsch von Cornelius Hartz
[ HC Beck 07.2020; TB Kein & Aber 04/2022]

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Book Published 2020-01-01 by Little, Brown (US)

Comments

France: Gallmeister

UK: 4th Estate (pre-empt)

film deal with Protagonist Pictures in the UK, working in conjunction with Blueprint Pictures

Kingdomtide is an extraordinary debut novel that feels like the result of a fortuitous lab spill involving, in one rack of tubes, the essential literary fluids of Denis Johnson, Annie Proulx, and Flannery O'Connor, and, in the other, the sweet morality of Leif Enger, Kent Haruf, and Charles Portis. (When you think of the indelible Cloris Waldrip of these pages, picture True Grit's Mattie Ross at age seventy-two, still kicking ass and taking names.) But although a reader can at times sense various veins coming down from various mountains, they are always in service of the one big heart that becomes Kingdomtide, a book that is wise, touching, and most of all original. Rick Bass, author of the national bestseller and Story Prize winner For a Little While I read a lot of very good fiction but this novelso startling and thrilling, so packed with such wonderful charactersis the best novel I've read in a long time. Roddy Doyle, author of The Commitments

Italy: Bompiani (pre-empt)

"Rye Curtis' debut novel, Kingdomtide, is that rare genre-fluid story that is lovable both because of and despite its surfeit of eccentric, over-the-top characters and moments. Some are gritty and dark, others light and wise; together they create an impressive first book and a highly original tale of adventure and perseverance." Read more...