Mercury: A Novel - Rilegato

Livesey, Margot

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ISBN 10: 006243750X ISBN 13: 9780062437501

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2016

Riassunto

The family life and security of a Boston optometrist is shattered by his wife's growing obsession with a beautiful thoroughbred horse and her dreams of becoming a serious competitor. By the best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy. 50,000 first printing.

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“Consuming.... Explores themes of honesty and understanding by showing the impact that obsessions―grief, rapacity―can have on a marriage.” (The New Yorker)

“You’ll be glued to the page.” (People, Pick of the Week)

“Livesey knows her way around human desire and disappointment. Like the recent blockbusters GONES GIRL and FATES AND FURIES, MERCURY gives us a marriage from alternating perspectives. Unlike those books, there is no looming gimmick or twist. The parties involved agree on what has happened. The question is whether or not their love can survive it.” (New York Times)

“Margot Livesey should be better known.... [She] writes as well as anyone and is clearly steeped in the literary canon.... She’s a patient builder of complex characters who are often brought face to face with uncomfortable truths about themselves.” (Mark Kamine, Wall Street Journal)

“MERCURY explores that thrilling, terrifying moment when grief turns blind, when passion becomes obsession. As always, Livesey tells her tale masterfully, with intelligence, tenderness and a shrewd understanding of all our mercurial human impulses.” (Lily King, author of EUPHORIA)

“Livesey’s prose has a brusque sensuality. It reads lucid and forthright and lean.... Livesey roots tension not just in the bones but the very marrow of the book.” (Leah Hager Cohen, Boston Globe)

“Delving into the subtler miscommunications of even the most intertwined lives... [MERCURY] underlines the small efforts people make to carve out autonomy within a marriage.” (Chloe Schama, New York Times Book Review)

“Step by step, Livesey brilliantly assembles a truly painful and frightening picture of delusion.... I cannot in good conscience reveal more of the plot. I came to this story in a state of innocence, and I feel that its terrific power depended in great part on the gradual unfolding of unlooked-for events.” (Katherine A. Powers, Barnes and Noble review)

“MERCURY is a haunting, meticulous inquiry into the nature of blindness-its insidious power to corrupt marital trust, even between those with perfect vision. Margot Livesey is a searingly intelligent writer at the height of her powers.” (Jennifer Egan, author of A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD)

“A fiercely intelligent exploration of the ways blindness ― to ourselves, others, and the power of passion and grief ― can divide us and transform us.... Livesey’s skillful play with the title’s many meanings... gives her narrative a rich imagery that interweaves seamlessly with its textured evocation of everyday life.” (Publishers Weekly)

L'autore

MARGOT LIVESEY is the acclaimed author of the novels The House on Fortune Street, Banishing Verona, Eva Moves the Furniture, The Missing World, Criminals and Homework. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vogue and The Atlantic, and she is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. The House on Fortune Street won the 2009 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Livesey was born in Scotland and now now lives in the Boston area. She is a distinguished writer-in-residence at Emerson College. Visit her online at www.margotlivesey.com or on her Facebook page, or follow her on Twitter @MargotLivesey.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 006243750X
• ISBN 13: 9780062437501
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 319