England, England. (Picador) - Brossura

Barnes, Julian

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0330373447 ISBN 13: 9780330373449

Casa editrice: Picador, 2005

Riassunto

As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. In Julian Barnes's new novel, the grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Buck House to Stonehenge, from Manchester United to the White Cliffs of Dover. The project is monstrous, risky and vastly successful. Indeed it gradually begins to rival 'Old' England and threatens to supersede it. 'Both ambitious and serious -- real if you like. Dive at those dump-bins.' Andrew Marr, Observer 'A brilliant, Swiftian fantasy.' Economist 'There is no more intelligent writer on the literary scene. In this novel he is also moving. He has written nothing more poignant and enticing.' John Carey, Sunday Times 'The novel has memorable characters and sentences, but its main impact will be through its penetrating ideas.' John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

Julian Barnes's ferociously funny novel about England, about the idea of England and about the search for authenticity and truth amid the fabulation and bogusness that is 'England'. Shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize.

L'autore:

Julian Barnes has published eight other novels, Metroland, Before She Met Me, Flaubert's Parrot, Staring at the Sun, A History of the World in 10 and Half Chapters, Talking It Over, The Porcupine and Love, etc ; two books of short stories, Cross Channel and The Lemon Table; and also two collections of essays, Letters from London and Something to Declare. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In France he is the only writer to have won both the Prix Midicis (for Flaubert's Parrot) and the Prix Fimina (for Talking It Over). In 1993 he was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the FVS Foundation of Hamburg. He lives in London.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0330373447
• ISBN 13: 9780330373449
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 272