Isabel And Rocco - Rilegato

Stothard, Anna

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0712624902 ISBN 13: 9780712624909

Casa editrice: Century, 2003

Riassunto

Isabel is seventeen, her brother Rocco is nineteen. Half-forgotten by their distracted, unnoting parents their days are spent together - watching the intricacies of London life from their attic room, listening to their parents impassioned arguing and slowly growing to become more and more dependent on one another. When their mother and father suddenly and unaccountably leave the family house, Isabel and Rocco are left to themselves; the house, and all that seems to touch it, slowly degenerating under their reclusive charge. Told through the eyes of Isabel, we follow her as she wavers precariously from childlike vulnerability to adult knowing, resisting and accepting at turns the subtle manipulations that threaten to overwhelm her. A brilliantly vivid and deeply captivating first novel, with echoes of Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden.

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Recensione

'Stothard's claustrophobic and compelling atmosphere of sadistic sexual fizz between her two main characters keeps the reader gripped' -- The Times

'The novel is ultimately a dark description of adolescence -- surly and oversexed, vulnerable and murderous... it is remarkably accomplished' -- The Observer

'Hypnotic, transgressive and enclosed... the quality of the writing is remarkable. Stothard gives Isabel a feverish lucidity which makes her see the truth but balk at knowing it.' -- Helen Dunmore

'She beats the young Francoise Sagan to pulp. She takes the everyday and turns it into something urgent, wondrous and alarmingly erotic. Is Camden Town really like this? Yes. See how she breathes new life into old literature.' -- Fay Weldon
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore

Anna Stothard was born in 1983. At the age of 16 she was writing novellas and a regular column called 'Teenage Kicks' for The Observer. That summer she worked on Tina Brown's Talk Magazine in New York for a month; it was at this time that she started to write Isabel and Rocco. At the age of eighteen Anna closed her first publishing deal for Isabel and Rocco.

Anna is the daughter of Peter Stothard, ex-editor of The Times and currently editor of the TLS. Her mother is the critically acclaimed novelist Sally Emerson. She is currently spending her gap year in Italy and China before going up to Oxford in autumn 2003.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Century
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0712624902
• ISBN 13: 9780712624909
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile