Attachment - Rilegato

Fonseca, Isabel

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ISBN 10: 0701181745 ISBN 13: 9780701181741

Casa editrice: Chatto & Windus, 2008

Riassunto

How well do you really know the people you love? How well do you know yourself? "Attachment" is a bold and thoughtful fictional debut that reaches from the Indian Ocean to London and New York, and into the most confounding precincts of the human heart. Jean Hubbard is a syndicated health columnist, her husband Mark, a successful advertising-executive. After more than twenty years together, they revel in a sabbatical on a remote tropical island. But when Jean opens an erotically charged email intended for Mark, she realizes that she has misdiagnosed some acute pathologies in her own life.The long idyll is over - but a more vivid, and compelling, quest has just begun. Searching for answers Jean goes undercover: with a surreptitious correspondence that propels her on to alarming, and illuminating, adventures of her own. Assured, funny, tender and provocative, "Attachment" is a dazzlingly good first novel - unflinching in its depiction of desire, of the responsibility that comes with age and family, and of the impulses that colour and disrupt our lives even as they reveal, ever more clearly, the nature of love.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Isabel Fonseca was born in New York and educated at Columbia University and Oxford. She was an assistant editor at the Times Literary Supplement and has written for a wide range of publications, from the Wall Street Journal to Vogue. Her first book, Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey, was an international bestseller. She lives in London with her husband and their two daughters.

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Praise for Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and their Journey

'She writes with grace, insight and passion, and peoples her text with vibrant characters brought vividly to life. It is a magnificent achievement.' Salman Rushdie

'Vivid, intelligent and compassionate... written with considerable insight and humour.' Telegraph Weekend magazine

'Compassionate, amusing, sardonic and highly intelligent.' Michael Ignatieff, Independent on Sunday

'Erudite, beautifully written... keenly observed and rich in unexpected exoticism.' New York Times

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How well do you really know the people you love? How well do you know yourself?

Attachment is a bold and thoughtful fictional debut that reaches from the Indian Ocean to London and New York, and into the most confounding precincts of the human heart.

Jean Hubbard is a syndicated health columnist, her husband Mark, a successful advertising-executive. After more than twenty years together, they revel in a sabbatical on a remote tropical island. But when Jean opens an erotically charged email intended for Mark, she realizes that she has misdiagnosed some acute pathologies in her own life. The long idyll is over -- but a more vivid, and compelling, quest has just begun. Searching for answers Jean goes undercover: with a surreptitious correspondence that propels her on to alarming, and illuminating, adventures of her own.

Assured, funny, tender and provocative, Attachment is a dazzlingly good first novel - unflinching in its depiction of desire, of the responsibility that comes with age and family, and of the impulses that colour and disrupt our lives even as they reveal, ever more clearly, the nature of love.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Chatto & Windus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0701181745
• ISBN 13: 9780701181741
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile