Beginner's Greek: A Novel - Rilegato

Collins, James

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ISBN 10: 0316021555 ISBN 13: 9780316021555

Casa editrice: Little Brown & Co, 2008

Riassunto

Falling hopelessly in love with a woman whose contact information he loses, Peter Russell perpetuates a series of events involving a woman's complicated marriage to a man in love with someone else, a man's debauchery, and an evil boss. 100,000 first printing.

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"Pure Pleasure Plus Wit: The arch and romantic read of any season, James Collins' Beginner's Greek makes you half-believe in miracles. With his triteness detector in high gear and his sights trained on social hypocrisy, Collins spins a chance encounter on an airplane (shy guy meets his dream girl) into a perfectly calibrated comedy of missed opportunities and muddled loves." (O Magazine)

"Despite the contemporary setting, Collins's fiction debut has all the traits of a 19th-century romance-an omniscient and sometimes playful narrator, elegant prose that meanders through the lush terrain of disparate lives, an occasionally arch but always dulcet tone, frequent flashbacks, characters whose minds are plumbed (the females are especially well sounded), sophisticated dialog, and a much-delayed but delightful resolution. Jane Austen fans will feel right at home." (starred review) (Library Journal (starred review) 2007-01-00)

"Beginner's Greek is full of humor and a rare, perceptive sweetness. Jim Collins is a skeptic, a realist, and a fervent romantic all in one." (Cathleen Schine, author of She is Me and The New Yorkers)

"In Beginners Greek, James Collins achieves a tone - a farcical fatalism, poised, astringent, generous - that I thought until now was the exclusive property of the finest British comic novelists. How wrong I was, and how right this novel is, building from small domestic observations and cunning dramatic turnaboutstoward a wise and ample vision of human romantic folly." (Walter Kirn, author of Mission to America and Thumbsucker)

"Such a rare delight: a smart, elegant, madly romantic comedy with characters who seem perfectly, charmingly real as they swerve and stumble from fairy tale to social satire and back again. If you ever wished there were more Jane Austen and Laurie Colwin novels to read, or more Preston Sturges and George Cukor movies to watch, your dream has hereby come true." (Kurt Andersen, author of Heyday)

"Beginner's Greek is either an incisive romantic comedy or a feel-good social satire; it hardly matters, it's a huge entertainment. With his big, sloppy heart and astringent soul, James Collins is the new Jane Austen, only taller." (Larry Doyle, author of I Love You, Beth Cooper)

"James Collins is on home turf when it comes to the secret world of the American aristocracy. He knows these people uncomfortably well. I enjoyed it enormously." (Julian Fellowes, author of Snobs)

"James Collins has written a romantic, funny and insightful page turner about love in modern times, missed opportunities and the wheel of fate (with a blow-out!) that is so engaging and real, you will find it impossible to put down. Peter Russell is an everyman filled with longing, lust and good sense. I promise you will root for him as fate throws him curves aplenty on his path to true love. Beginner's Greek and Peter Russell are keepers." (Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of Lucia, Lucia and Big Stone Gap)

"Entertaining...the perfect airplane novel." (The San Francisco Chronicle 2008-01-00)

"unabashedly romantic" (New Yorker 2008-01-00)

L'autore:

James Collins writes for The New Yorker and has been an editor at both Time and Spy Magazine. A former Little, Brown editorial assistant, he is forty-eight years old and lives in VIrginia with his family. This is his first novel.

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• Editore: Little Brown & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0316021555
• ISBN 13: 9780316021555
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 441