The Facts of Life - Brossura

Joyce, Graham

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ISBN 10: 0743463439 ISBN 13: 9780743463430

Casa editrice: Washington Square Pr, 2004

Riassunto

A remarkable young boy, Frank Arthur Vine, the product of a passionate encounter between his mother Cassie and an American G.I., is brought up by his mother's six very different--and idiosyncratic--sisters and his charismatic grandmother after his mother is determined to be too unstable, in a emotional and multifaceted novel set against the backdrop of Coventry, England. Reprint.

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Isabel Allende [The Facts of Life] is the kind of book I love to read! It's an epic saga about family, love, war, and magic. Joyce's characters are memorable. They remind me of some of my own weird relatives. I have not been so charmed by a novel in a long time.

Alev Lytle Croutier author of Seven Houses and The Palace of Tears Reading The Facts of Life is like stepping into a fictional dream that has resonances, in turn, of Dickens, John Irving, Ian McEwan, Robertson Davies, and Paul Auster. What begins with a quiet pace suddenly sweeps one up in an eddy of quirks. The picaresque family novel brings an unexpected revelation at every corner, and what seems morbid and profane is transformed into beautiful and nearly divine What a delicious discovery!

Jonathan Lethem author of Motherless Brooklyn I won't bother saying Graham Joyce deserves to find a wide audience in America; rather I think the American audience deserves to find him.

The Guardian (UK) Graham Joyce creates families to break your heart...

Time Out, London Joyce is brilliant....[The Facts of Life] is a book about beginnings that are also continuities, and about ordinary lives stranger than casual inspection knows.

Booklist Joyce explores the shape and the texture of truth, walks the thin line between the religious and the sexual, and makes readers marvel at the power of the spirit and the psyche...as a haunting expression of magic realism, [he] evokes the work of Gabriel García Márquez.

Salon.com Joyce walks with the grace of a circus star, or a Henry James, on that narrow line between seeming and being.

L'autore:

Graham Joyce's books include The Facts of Life, which won the 2003 World Fantasy Award, Smoking Poppy, Indigo (a New York Times Notable Book of 2000) and The Tooth Fairy. He is a four-time recipient of the British Fantasy Award and winner of the French Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. He lives in Leicester, England, with his wife and two children.

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• Editore: Washington Square Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0743463439
• ISBN 13: 9780743463430
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304