What Was Lost - Brossura

Catherine O'Flynn

Brossura

ISBN 10: 038566589X ISBN 13: 9780385665896

Casa editrice: Tindal Street Press, 2008

Riassunto

A lost little girl with a notebook and toy monkey appears on the CCTV screen of the Green Oaks shopping centre, evoking memories of junior detective, Kate Meaney, missing for twenty years. Kurt, a security guard with a sleep disorder and Lisa, a disenchanted deputy manager at Your Music, together become entranced by the little girl they keep glimpsing on the security cameras. As Kurt and Lisa’s after-hours friendship grows in intensity, it brings new loss and new longing to light.

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Recensione

"Skewers our consumer society in all its absurdity and terrible sadness, while deftly interweaving a tender and heartbreaking personal narrative. A great debut novel from an awesomely talented writer."
—Jonathan Coe

"An exceptional, polyphonic novel of urban disaffection, written with humour and pathos. Kate’s deceptively jaunty diary reveals a consumer-driven society choking on its own loneliness; a ghost story; and an examination of unspeakable loss."
—Guardian (UK)

"An enthralling tale of a little girl lost, wrapped in a portrait of a changing community over two decades. What binds it all together so impressively is O’Flynn’s emotional articulacy, which captures life’s sad, strange absurdities and glosses them with a kind of nobility."
—Observer (UK)

L'autore

Catherine O’Flynn was born in Birmingham in 1970. She has worked as a teacher, a web editor, and a postwoman, as well as a record store clerk. What Was Lost is her first novel.

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• Editore: Tindal Street Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 038566589X
• ISBN 13: 9780385665896
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256