These Demented Lands - Brossura

Warner, Alan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099577917 ISBN 13: 9780099577911

Casa editrice: Vintage, 1998

Riassunto

'A sequel to his acclaimed début Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, confirms that Alan Warner boasts an extravagant talent... This novel is set on a Scottish island that contains a variety of weird landmarks and an hallucinogenic cast of characters - including a DJ who wants to set up the rave to end all raves, a visitor whose job is to assess candidates for sainthood and the wonderfully unfazed heroine, Morvern Callar' - Harry Ritchie, Mail on Sunday

A powerful, hilarious and original novel about the intersection of lives in the rough and ready communities and wild landscapes of the Scottish Highlands.

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Recensione:

"Warner's second novel is a classic like his first one... glorious... powerful" (Independent)

"A moving evocation of post- apocalyptic rave culture in the West Highlands of contemporary Scotland" (Independent on Sunday)

"Prodigious powers of invention... marvellously dynamic prose... brilliant visual imagination... A greatly ambitious novel" (Times Literary Supplement)

"Think of the inventiveness of Iain Banks filtered through the lurid lens of a David Lynch, with a soundtrack from Verve and Bob Dylan... These Demented Lands is fiction 'on the Outer Rim of everything'. Rave on, child" (Scotsman)

"With a style that fuses poetic discipline with the riff-based scat of a hedonist" (Esquire)

Descrizione del libro:

'Alan Warner has a gift greater than the gift of telling a story. He can make what he chooses to tell us seem like a story we were waiting to hear' - Adam Mars-Jones, Observer

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0099577917
• ISBN 13: 9780099577911
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224