Lullabies for little criminals: A Novel - Brossura

O'Neill, Heather

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0062468472 ISBN 13: 9780062468475

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2016

Riassunto

Living with her heroin addict father, Jules, thirteen-year-old Baby catches the eye of the charismatic Alphonse, who possesses a string of girls who do his bidding, and is sent to reform school, but when she ultimately gains her freedom, she begins to discover that only she possesses the power to save herself. A first novel. Original. 30,000 first printing.

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Recensione

“A vivid portrait of life on skid row.” (People)

“A nuanced, endearing coming-of-age novel you won’t want to miss.” (Quill & Quire (Canada))

“Vivid and poignant.... A deeply moving and troubling novel.” (Independent (London))

“A beautiful book, all the more remarkable because its harrowing tale is (virtuosically) told without a trace of self-pity or bathos. There are phrases in here that will make you laugh out loud, and others that will stop your heart. A definite triumph.” (David Rakoff, author of Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish)

“O’Neill is a tragicomedienne par excellence.... You will not want to miss this tender depiction of some very mean streets.” (Montreal Review of Books)

“A poignant tale.... O’Neill brings the setting to life.” (OK!, five stars)

“O’Neill somehow infuses her troubling story with a kind of heartbreaking innocence.... She is a wonderful stylist and the voice she has created for Baby is original and altogether captivating.” (Booklist)

“A winsome debut novel.” (Kirkus)

“Baby’s precocious introspection feels pitch perfect.... Tear-jerkingly effective.” (Publishers Weekly)

“Dreamy prose.... Baby’s unique voice and the glimmer of hope provided by her intelligence and imaginative spirit live on in the mind long after you have closed the book.” (Waterstones Books Quarterly (London))

L'autore

HEATHER O’NEILL is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist. Her work, which includes Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and Daydreams of Angels, has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize in two consecutive years, and has won CBC Canada Reads, the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the Danuta Gleed Award. Born and raised in Montreal, O’Neill lives there today with her daughter.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0062468472
• ISBN 13: 9780062468475
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 330