Rogues' Wedding - Rilegato

Griggs, Terry

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ISBN 10: 0679311440 ISBN 13: 9780679311447

Casa editrice: Random House Canada, 2002

Riassunto

A man on the run, a woman in pursuit: Terry Griggs’s new novel is a wildly entertaining and inventive take on the war between the sexes, delicious to read, impossible to put down.

On his wedding night in 1898, Griffith Smolders, already unnerved by the conjugal duties that await him, is chased around his hotel room by ball lightning -- and he takes it as a sign that he is not ready to be a husband. Jumping out the window, he flees into the night, leaving behind his bride. When the immodest and beautiful Avice realizes she’s been abandoned, she swears she will exact a suitably nasty revenge.

Like Odysseus in reverse, Grif keeps on running -- away from home, from himself and most especially from Avice. And, of course, he runs into trouble. Trying to help a coquettish young woman, he inadvertently boards a ship about to sink. The sole survivor, he washes up near a lighthouse. When he finally runs out of steam, and holes up in a little hotel in a northern frontier town, he finds that another Griffith Smolders has mysteriously appeared.

Meanwhile, Avice sets out to hunt him. The lengths to which she goes in stalking her wayward husband reveal that she is definitely not a member of the weaker sex. And when, at last, she runs him to ground, the collision between the two is even more electric than the lightning that began it.

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Praise for Rogues' Wedding:

“Terry Griggs returns continues to astound with her quirky sense of craft, a delightful mixture of reality and farce, and sharply drawn characters. She’s a hoot. Rogues’ Wedding is a rollicking romp and frivolously fantastical; it’s not heavy, but heavenly.” -- The Hamilton Spectator

“However a reader interprets Rogues’ Wedding, Griggs’ talent for creating engaging characters, both major and minor, her inventiveness with language, her mischievous humour and her refreshing sense of the absurd are sure to please and delight.” -- The Kitchener/Waterloo Record

“Forget the Runaway Bride. Terry Griggs has just immortalized the runaway bridegroom. She’s a wildly inventive storyteller, gifted with a superb turn of phrase. But what a delicious trifle she serves, with Victorian-Gothic panache. Griggs’ dark sense of humour prevails, making Rogues’ Wedding a most engaging read, highly recommended for newlyweds.” -- The Gazette (Montreal) and The Calgary Herald

“In Rogues’ Wedding Griggs hones her voice, creating an unforgettable historical picaresque that paints Victorian Ontario as anything but stodgy and dull. This book is a carnival, filled with freaks and wonders. The narrative is preposterous, the characters fabulous, drawn sharper than life, coloured more brightly, yet after you put the book down, you see them everywhere.” -- The Ottawa Citizen

“Rogues’ Wedding is hugely enjoyable to read, a smart and lively take on social conventions...” -- Uptown magazine, Winnipeg

“Terry Griggs’s second novel is as exuberantly inventive, verbally juiced up and sexually outrageous as her first, The Lusty Man -- and more pointedly iconoclastic....The language, the verbal fireworks, the apparently limitless stream of image and metaphor -- startling, heady, hilarious -- do it all.” -- The Globe and Mail

“The result is both high drama and comedy, rolling into one. Rogues’ Wedding is a hoot, a wonderful shaggy dog story, and, for the readers around Georgian Bay, a book full of the familiar. It is part farce, part quest, and wildly comic.” -- The Sun Times (Owen Sound)

“With astonishing talent and control, [Griggs] smashes apart Victorian society (and modern society by extension) and rebuilds it as a Swiftian fantasy, raucous as Huckleberry Finn and nearly as bizarre as Alice in Wonderland...This is a rich mixture, intensely intoxicating and bestowing delicious feelings of hallucination.” -- Quill & Quire

Praise for Terry Griggs:

“Griggs creates magical transformations with words alone.” -- The Vancouver Sun

“. . . like Robertson Davies on speed.” -- The Globe and Mail

L'autore

Terry Griggs has written a collection of short stories, Quickening, which was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Award, and the novel The Lusty Man. Her stories have been published in magazines and anthologies including The Journey Prize Anthology and Writing Home: A PEN Anthology. Griggs has also published a children’s book, Cat’s Eye Corner.

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• Editore: Random House Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0679311440
• ISBN 13: 9780679311447
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 304