The Son (Meyer novel)

The Son
Cover of first edition
AuthorPhilipp Meyer
LanguageEnglish
GenreWestern
Set inTexas
PublisherEcco
Publication date
28 May 2013
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages592
ISBN978-0-06-212039-7
OCLC834159090
813/.6
LC ClassPS3613.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]

  1. ^ "How author Philipp Meyer fell in love with Texas". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  2. ^ Fienberg, Daniel (2017). "'The Son': TV Review | SXSW 2017". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 12 June 2019.