The Wonder - Rilegato

Evans, Diana

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ISBN 10: 038566818X ISBN 13: 9780385668187

Casa editrice: Bond Street Books, 2009

Riassunto

From the acclaimed author of 26a, comes a dazzling new novel about the fight to achieve one’s dream, and an unsolved disappearance at the heart of a family.

As a child Lucas assumed that all children who’d lost their parents lived on water. Now a restless young man, and still sharing the West London narrowboat with his sister Denise, he secretly investigates the contents of an old wardrobe, in which he finds relics from the Midnight Ballet, an influential black dance company of the 1960s founded by his Jamaican father, the charismatic Antoney Matheus.

In his search to unravel the legacy of the Midnight Ballet, Lucas hears of hot-house rehearsals in an abandoned Notting Hill church, of artistic battles and personal betrayals, and a whirlwind European tour. Most importantly, Lucas learns about his parents’ passionate and tumultuous relationship and of the events that led to his father’s final disappearance.

Vividly conjuring the world of 1950s Kingston, Jamaica, the Blues parties and early carnivals of Ladbroke Grove, the flower stalls and vinyl riflers of modern-day Portobello Road, and the famous leap and fall of Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, Diana Evans creates a haunting and visceral family mystery about absence and inheritance, the battle between love and creativity, and what drives a young man to take flight...

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Recensione

"A serious work of art. . . . Evans was born to write this novel. . . . The Wonder's most central achievement is to explore what art means in human life. . . . This second novel, both powerful and delicate . . . proves that Evans has what she calls 'the watch-me, the grace note' that marks a true artist."
— The Independent (UK)

L'autore

Diana Evans was a dancer before she became a writer and critic. Her first novel, 26a, received a Betty Trask Award, a nomination for the Guardian First Book Award, and was short­listed for the Commonwealth Best First Book and Whitbread First Novel of the Year awards. It was also the inaugural winner of the Orange Award for New Writers. She lives in London.

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• Editore: Bond Street Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 038566818X
• ISBN 13: 9780385668187
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320