The Uninvited Guests: A Novel - Rilegato

Jones, Sadie

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ISBN 10: 0062116509 ISBN 13: 9780062116505

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2012

Riassunto

While fighting to save their family home, Charlotte prepares for an elaborate birthday celebration for her daughter Emerald--an event that unexpectedly turns into a dramatic evening that forever changes all of their lives. 50,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“A comedy of manners that turns downright surreal...Jones’s effervescent writing keeps the course steady-even as her characters shed their civilized veneers.” (Ellen Shapiro, People Four Star Review)

“Entertaining...Jones is a writer of admirable narrative energy...with a painfully accurate, almost Stoppardian ear for dialogue and a delightful streak of cruelty that flirts with...the gothic.” (Lev Grossman, Time Magazine)

“Vividly atmospheric...niftily deceptive...a story of shattered snobbery, transformation of character and in the end a surprising and eerily beautiful portrait of compassion...A sublimely clever book.” (Mary Pols, San Francisco Chronicle)

“Delicious...comparisons with Downton Abbey will be both inevitable and fair.” (Wall Street Journal)

“...THE UNINVITED GUESTS...defied my expectations. I saw none of it coming. I read it in one breathless sitting, and finished wanting to give it to everyone I know.” (Maile Meloy, Nationally Bestselling Author of BOTH WAYS IS THE ONLY WAY I WANT IT)

“What a delicious read! Like something written by a wicked Jane Austen,...I was captivated by its madcap nature and then, unprepared for the strange fruit that the story became.” (Sarah Blake, New York Times Bestselling Author of THE POSTMISTRESS)

“A brilliant novel...At once a shimmering comedy of manners and disturbing commentary on class...so well-written, so intricately plotted, that every page delivers some new astonishment.” (Ann Patchett, New York Times Bestselling Author of STATE OF WONDER)

“What opens as an amusing Edwardian country house tale soon becomes a sinister tragi-comedy of errors...in true Shakespearean fashion. Sadie Jones is a most talented and imaginative storyteller.” (Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times Bestselling Author of ELEGY FOR EDDIE)

“A remarkable dark comedy...Jones’s characters are delightfully eccentric, the wit delightfully droll, and the prose simply delightful. But for all its charm, this is a serious book...” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

“A delightful, eerie novel...Jones expertly balances the whimsical and the strange, building things to a climax of abandon, terror and restitution...Engrossing, enjoyable.” (Philip Womack, Telegraph)

L'autore:

Sadie Jones is the author of four novels, including The Outcast, winner of the Costa First Novel Award in Great Britain and a finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, Small Wars, and the bestselling The Uninvited Guests. She lives in London.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062116509
• ISBN 13: 9780062116505
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 262