Author | Philipp Meyer |
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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]