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A modern tale of sexual mores and city life, Edward Docx s brilliant debut is a witty novel of spurned lovers, elaborately planned seduction, plotted revenge, and surprising secrets.
Jasper Jackson is a rapacious heartbreaker who is greatly overdue for a reckoning. He is also a passionate, charming, sophisticated young Londoner, well versed in life s finer enjoyments ? art and wine, great food and engaging friendships ? who happens to eke out his stylish existence in the improbable vocation of calligraphy. While working on a commission to transcribe the love poetry of John Donne, he glimpses an alluring woman in the courtyard outside his window. Madeleine is in every way his match ? sexy, intelligent, and, above all, elusive. But his mission to seduce her marks the start of his unraveling.
A contemporary comedy of manners for fans of Nick Hornby or Julian Barnes, The Calligrapher dazzles with its acute observations about truth and deceit in the eternal battle of love.
Jasper Jackson is a rapacious heartbreaker who is greatly overdue for a reckoning. He is also a passionate, charming, sophisticated young Londoner, well versed in life s finer enjoyments ? art and wine, great food and engaging friendships ? who happens to eke out his stylish existence in the improbable vocation of calligraphy. While working on a commission to transcribe the love poetry of John Donne, he glimpses an alluring woman in the courtyard outside his window. Madeleine is in every way his match ? sexy, intelligent, and, above all, elusive. But his mission to seduce her marks the start of his unraveling.
A contemporary comedy of manners for fans of Nick Hornby or Julian Barnes, The Calligrapher dazzles with its acute observations about truth and deceit in the eternal battle of love.
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“Nimble and extremely deft . . . A witty debut.”
Kirkus Reviews, Starred
"The double surprises that end the narrative are diabolically satisfying.” Publishers Weekly
"Brilliant...Docx manages to comment astutely on Donne's poetry while crafting a thoroughly modern entertainment on hip young Londoners." Library Journal Starred
"[Docx] writes in a deliciously evocative manner . . . that links him with favored authors like Fitzgerald and Nabokov." --Barbara Hoffert Library Journal
"Pure delight." --Rebecca Ascher-Walsh Entertainment Weekly
"Sharp and wryly funny." People Magazine
"A sly debut." The New Yorker
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Kirkus Reviews, Starred
"The double surprises that end the narrative are diabolically satisfying.” Publishers Weekly
"Brilliant...Docx manages to comment astutely on Donne's poetry while crafting a thoroughly modern entertainment on hip young Londoners." Library Journal Starred
"[Docx] writes in a deliciously evocative manner . . . that links him with favored authors like Fitzgerald and Nabokov." --Barbara Hoffert Library Journal
"Pure delight." --Rebecca Ascher-Walsh Entertainment Weekly
"Sharp and wryly funny." People Magazine
"A sly debut." The New Yorker
Edward Docx is the author of the acclaimed The Calligrapher, named a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. He lives in London.
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- EditoreMariner Books
- Data di pubblicazione2005
- ISBN 10 0618485341
- ISBN 13 9780618485345
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- Numero di pagine360
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Descrizione libro Softcover. Condizione: new. Reprint. This beguiling novel is a provocative romantic comedy centered on a young London calligrapher named Jasper who is an engaging intelligent serial seducer and a breaker of hearts But when he meets Madeleine a captivating but enigmatic woman who is his equal in every way he falls helplessly in love Vulnerable for the first time he is headed for his comeuppance at last Jasper is transcribing the Songs and Sonnets of that other great lover John Donne for a rich American client As he works on them revealing to us the fascinating art of the calligrapher he discovers that these wise and beautiful love poems illuminate his own experiences of the difference between love and lust of the play of truth and deceit between men and women of the cost of constancyAs well as bringing modern London vividly to life The Calligrapher is keenly observant of contemporary relationships and modern mores Underlying its sparkling surface are Jaspers wry but heartfelt lamentations about the diminishment of our culture the trivial masquerading as the consequential the rising tide of ignorance the triumph of the lowest common denominator At once wickedly witty and deeply serious sweet and cynical romantic and reflective this stylish wonderfully entertaining novel is an accomplished and exciting literary debut. Codice articolo DADAX0618485341
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