Incendiary - Rilegato

Cleave, Chris

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ISBN 10: 0307262820 ISBN 13: 9780307262820

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2005

Riassunto

Distraught over the deaths of her husband and son in a suicide bombing at a London soccer match, a woman writes a letter to Osama bin Laden to persuade him to abandon his terror campaign and becomes embroiled in a psychological web of ambition, cynicism, and guilt that erodes her faith in society and pushes her to acts of extraordinary desperation as the city braces for another deadly bomb threat. 100,000 first printing.

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Winner of the 2006 Somerset Maugham Award

“An audacious, provocative voice. Incendiary is stunning in its portrayal of a city living with terror.”
—The New York Times

“Stunning. . . . A harrowing and sharply written account of urban panic and the hallucinatory effects of shock.”
—The Globe and Mail

“Read Incendiary. And I mean it. Read it. It is outrageous, infuriating, heartbreaking, terrifying and very, very important.”
—NOW Magazine

“Cleave’s narrator is one of the strongest, most convincing personalities to grace the pages of literature in years. . . [He] has achieved something magical, creating a character who lives on long after the last page has been read.”
—Winnipeg Free Press

“Hilariously sympathetic. . . . Cleave has achieved something rare: a black comedy about the war on terrorism and terrorism itself. [Incendiary] will break your heart and remind you how, in the face of the uncontrollable and the inexplicable, humor can allow one to survive.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“A poignant and compelling novel. . . utterly believable and mesmerizing. . . . Incendiary works not only as a furiously taut evocation of grieving, unhinged mother-love but as a sly political cautionary tale.”
—Newsday

“So timely it stings.”
—The Independent (UK)

“A haunting work of art.”
—Newsweek
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

Chris Cleave took a degree at Oxford and worked for The Daily Telegraph. He lives in Paris with his wife and son.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0307262820
• ISBN 13: 9780307262820
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 237