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| Author | Philipp Meyer |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Western |
| Set in | Texas |
| Publisher | Ecco |
Publication date | 28 May 2013 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 592 |
| ISBN | 978-0-06-212039-7 |
| OCLC | 834159090 |
| 813/.6 | |
| LC Class | PS3613.E976 S66 2013 |
The Son is the second novel by the American writer Philipp Meyer. Published in 2013, the novel was loosely conceived as the second in a thematic trilogy on the American myth following Meyer's first novel, American Rust.[1]
The novel focuses on three generations of the McCullough family: Eli McCullough, the vicious patriarch who was the first male child born in the newly formed Texas, his son Peter McCullough, a learned man who disagrees with his father's brutality but is powerless to stop it, and Eli's great-granddaughter and Peter's granddaughter, Jeanne Anne "J.A." McCullough, who inherited her great-grandfather's toughness and went on to become a wealthy oil baroness.
In 2017, the novel was adapted into the television series, The Son, starring Pierce Brosnan as Eli McCullough.[2]
- ^ "How author Philipp Meyer fell in love with Texas". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
- ^ Fienberg, Daniel (2017). "'The Son': TV Review | SXSW 2017". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 12 June 2019.