Clear: A Transparent Novel - Brossura

Barker, Nicola

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060797576 ISBN 13: 9780060797577

Casa editrice: Ecco Pr, 2005

Riassunto

An irreverent tale of illusion, celebrity, hunger, deception, and hypocrisy in today's pop culture world is centered around New York illusionist David Blaine's forty-four-day sojourn as a hunger artist suspended over the Thames River in a clear box. By the author of Behindlings. Reader's Guide available. Original. 15,000 first printing.

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“Barker’s weird imagination works wonders...Exceptional.” (Elle)

“The brilliance of Barker’s style is beyond question.” (The Spectator)

“The diversity of Barker’s imagination is stunning; her language, witty and exact.” (Daily Telegraph (London))

“An exasperating, beguiling, and occasionally damn-ner perfect piece of work [by an] infuratingly talented British author.” (Kirkus Reviews on Behindlings)

“Nicola Barker has a rare writing talent.” (Time Out (London))

“Barker’s earthy, inventive, hilarious, and wickedly satirical novel is enormously entertaining.” (Booklist)

“Her vision is unique, funny, dark, sarcastic and clever.” (Alain de Botton)

“Barker’s narrative draws us in with the disturbing, surreal touch of a latter-day Lewis Carroll.” (Sunday Times (London))

“Dazzling...She celebrates the complexity of human experience.” (London Times)

“The plot doesn’t just twist, it leaps and back-flips and does triple somersaults...” (New York Times Book Review)

L'autore

Nicola Barker is one of Britain's most original and exciting literary talents. She is the author of two short-story collections: Love Your Enemies [winner of the David Higham Prize and the Macmillan Silver Pen Award] and Heading Inland [winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize]. Her previous novels are Reversed Forecast, Small Holdings, Wide Open Behindlings and Clear, the last of which was long-listed for the 2005 Booker Prize. Her work is translated into twenty languages, and in 2000, she won the IMPAC Award for Wide Open. In 2003, Nicola Barker was named a Granta Best of British Novelist. She lives in London.

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• Editore: Ecco Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060797576
• ISBN 13: 9780060797577
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 346