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Grimshaw, Charlotte

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ISBN 10: 0224097644 ISBN 13: 9780224097642

Casa editrice: Jonathan Cape, 2013

Riassunto

During the long summer holiday, the Lampton and Hallwright families gather in a large beach house belonging to Prime Minister David Hallwright and his wife Roza. The weather is perfect and outwardly all is well, but the harmony is disturbed when Simon Lampton’s brother arrives for a visit. Ford casts a cold eye over the company, barely disguising his contempt for David Hallwright. To add to Simon’s discomfort a young man called Arthur Weeks makes contact, asking about his secret past affair, and Roza begins to tell her small son Johnnie a continuous story about a group of fantasy creatures – a story that contains uncomfortable parallels with their current lives. When Simon agrees to meet secretly with Arthur Weeks, the result will threaten the security of them all.

Charlotte Grimshaw’s exhilaratingly gripping and clever narrative traces the lives of its beautiful people – ‘moral imbeciles’ in Ford’s words – as they jostle for position in their leader’s court. This humane and capacious novel, generous and faithful to its characters in ways that they are not to each other, articulates the ancient idea that to be moral is an act of consciousness, an effort of will.

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Recensione:

"A sly masterly novel" (Literary Review)

"Full of delicious satire, Grimshaw is much lauded in New Zealand and should have entered the British consciousness long ago." (Carla McKay Daily Mail)

"The unsettling juxtaposition of urbanity and blood-letting that characterises Grimshaw's other fiction keeps things edgy and jumpy here" (New Zealand Herald)

"Grimshaw cleverly depicts a series of power struggles as her characters seek to manipulate each other, forcing the reader to question their motives." (Anna-Maria Ssemuyaba Times Literary Supplement)

"Opening the pages of Charlotte Grimshaw’s new novel Soon is akin to tilting the blinds in a dim room; the razor-like precision of her words flood your mind with crisp, searing light, such is the vivid clarity of her prose... It’s a wonderful novel which explores morality and the extent to which we are responsible for our own actions." (Steph Zajkowski TVNZ)

Descrizione del libro:

A penetrating and intense look at a group of powerful people in a small country – by New Zealand’s finest novelist.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Jonathan Cape
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0224097644
• ISBN 13: 9780224097642
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320