Cygnet - Brossura

Butler, Season

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0349700311 ISBN 13: 9780349700311

Casa editrice: Little Brown UK, 2019

Riassunto

'Terribly moving. A clear-sighted, poignant rumination on loneliness, love, the melancholy of age and of youth - and, in its quiet way, the end of the world' - China Mieville

The Kid doesn't know where her parents are. They left with a promise to come back months ago, and now their seventeen-year-old daughter is stranded on Swan Island.

Swan isn't just any island; it is home to an eccentric old age separatist community who have shunned life on the mainland for a haven which is rapidly sinking into the ocean. The Kid's arrival threatens to burst the idyllic bubble that the elderly residents have so carefully constructed - an unwelcome reminder of the life they left behind, and one they want rid of.

CYGNET is the story of a young woman battling against the thrashing waves of loneliness and depression, and how she learns to find hope, laughter and her own voice in a world that's crumbling around her.

'A sad, funny, highly original novel. Not since Holden Caulfield have I been so captivated by a first-person voice as the one Season Butler creates in CYGNET' Blake Morrison, author of THINGS MY MOTHER NEVER TOLD ME

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Informazioni sull?autore

Season Butler is a writer, artist and dramaturg born in Washington, DC. Through her work, she explores her interest in identity and otherness, the opportunities and traps of hindsight and hope, and what it means to look forward to an increasingly wily future. An early draft of Cygnet was shortlisted for the SI Leeds Prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian Women. She lives and works between London and Berlin.

Dalla quarta di copertina

In Cygnet, Season Butler gives us the coming-of-age story we haven't heard before, about a young girl resisting the savagery of adulthood as a dying community rejects the promise of youth.

The Kid doesn't know where her parents are. They left with a promise to come back months ago, and now their seventeen-year-old daughter is stranded on Swan Island.

Swan isn't just any island; it's home to an eccentric old age separatist community who have shunned life on the mainland for a haven which is rapidly sinking into the ocean. The Kid's arrival threatens to burst the idyllic bubble that the elderly residents have so carefully constructed, an unwelcome reminder of the life they left behind and one they want rid of.

Cygnet is the story of a young woman battling against the thrashing waves of isolation, and how she learns to find hope, laughter and an original voice in a world that's crumbling around her.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Little Brown UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0349700311
• ISBN 13: 9780349700311
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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