Amazing Disgrace - Brossura

Hamilton-Paterson, James

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571229409 ISBN 13: 9780571229406

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2007

Riassunto

Gerald Samper is a ghost writer to the stars: rock singers, racing drivers and ski champions. And to Millie Cleat, the monstrous one-armed sailor, whose round the world voyage has made her the toast of Britain, and who has become the poster-girl for the Deep Blues, a mystical and nutty environmental group.

Gerald pines for greater things, however, and would prefer to write the memoirs of Max Christ, the celebrated conductor. While he schemes to land this unattainable catch, he muses hilariously and viciously on the world of which he is such an unwilling part, looking out from his Tuscan hilltop and pining for his neighbour Marta, offspring of a crime family from Voynovia, who disappeared one day into thin air. Has she been the subject of a 'rendition'?

Meanwhile, some oceanographers are planning revenge on Millie Cleat for her destruction of their greatest coup. Gerald convinces her that she has seen the face of Neptune in the depths ...

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

Amazing Disgrace - from James Hamilton-Paterson, the winner of the BBC TV's alternative Booker Prize Bookered Out, comes a new satirical novel featuring the anti-hero of his wonderful Cooking with Fernet Branca.

L'autore:

James Hamilton-Paterson lives in Tuscany, and is not a ghost.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0571229409
• ISBN 13: 9780571229406
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320