Eleanor Rigby - Brossura

Coupland, Douglas

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0007193831 ISBN 13: 9780007193837

Casa editrice: Fourth Estate, 2004

Riassunto

Meet Liz Dunn – a good woman who has become very good at being lonely. Then, after 25 years apart, her amazing 25-year-old son returns into her life. And, at 40, suddenly, she is no longer alone, and must decide what matters more: peace, certainty or love?

Once upon a time Liz Dunn was the loneliest girl in the world. One starry night, far from home, she told a stranger she was tired of being lonely. So, he tried to put an end to all that.

Twenty-five years later, into her life walks, for the very first time, her son Jeremy. And everything changes. Liz has in the interim learned to live with loneliness, and become rather expert at it, as well as being sparky, competent and sarcastic when necessary. Now, with Jeremy in her life, she has to abandon her certainties as her world expands...

This is a novel irradiated by hope and illuminated by trust, that also fizzes with whirls in Vienna, romance in Rome, mayhem in Frankfurt and visions in Vancouver. It is blessed with the commanding presence of an unforgettable heroine in Liz Dunn, with whom Douglas Coupland ascends to a new level of peace and grace in his ever-more-amazing career as an artist of rare capabilities.

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Recensione:

praise for Douglas Coupland’s fiction:

'Douglas Coupland has surely reserved his place at the top table of North American fiction.' Independent on Sunday

'Nothing less than sublime' Time Out

'Far too wise to offer answers, but affirms that seeking them is a necessary part of our humanity.' Independent

'Coupland's last four novels are so good and so distinctive that they seem to me to mark a genuine seismic shift in the literary landscape.' Nicholas Blincoe, New Statesman

'Coupland has passion and pace, intelligence and wit. If you find anything about the way we live now disturbing and wrong, he is your man.' Daily Telegraph

'Coupland at his best can make a single phrase say more than many another writer's whole novel.' LRB

L'autore:

DOUGLAS COUPLAND first came to prominence as the author of Generation X (1995). He followed that with a sequence of ever-more daring and inventive novels, including Life After God, Girlfriend in a Coma and, most recently, Hey Nostradamus! He lives in Vancouver.

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• Editore: Fourth Estate
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0007193831
• ISBN 13: 9780007193837
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336