The Devil I Know - Brossura

Claire Kilroy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 057128342X ISBN 13: 9780571283422

Casa editrice: Faber and Faber, 2012

Riassunto

There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile
He made a crooked deal and he blew a crooked pile
He dug a crooked hole
And he sank the crooked isle
And they all went to hell in a stew of crooked bile.

The Devil I Know is a thrilling novel of greed and hubris, set against the backdrop of a brewing international debt crisis. Told by Tristram, in the form of a mysterious testimony, it recounts his return home after a self-imposed exile only to find himself trapped as a middle man played on both sides - by a grotesque builder he's known since childhood on the one hand, and a shadowy businessman he's never met on the other. Caught between them, as an overblown property development begins in his home town of Howth, it follows Tristram's dawning realisation that all is not well.

From a writer unafraid to take risks, The Devil I Know is a bold, brilliant and disturbing piece of storytelling.

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Recensione:

'Smart, funny and stylish, and bang up to the minute. Reading it, one squirms in appalled recognition of the extremes of greed and foolishness of our time, which Claire Kilroy portrays with devilish accuracy.' --John Banville

'Dark, funny and wonderful: The Devil I Know is a shot through the heart of the Irish boom.' --Anne Enright

'A riveting and brilliantly unnerving book. To read it is to be plunged right into the madness and obscenity of what has been done to Ireland - or what Ireland has done to itself. People wanted the boom-to-bust novel; well, here it is.' --Belinda McKeon

Descrizione del libro:

The Devil I Know by Claire Kilroy is a charged and coruscating novel about good and evil . . .

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• Editore: Faber and Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 057128342X
• ISBN 13: 9780571283422
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384