The Conclave - Brossura

Bracewell, Michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0955731283 ISBN 13: 9780955731280

Casa editrice: Capuchin Classics, 2009

Riassunto

The Conclave charts the first thirty years in the life of a suburban dilettante with aesthetic aspirations, who, in the 1980s, begins a lucrative career. The story roams from the edge of London to a well-healed part of Bristol, and in doing so reveals a disturbing

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A breathtakingly good novel --Guardian

Positively bubbles with a mischievous eloquence --New Statesman

Capuchin has quietly built up a stylish, distinctive reprint list that takes in both fixtures from the canon (Swift to Tolstoy) and under-appreciated gems from more recent decades. Just as novelists queue up to try the great City boom-and-bust novel of the early 21st century, this timely re-issue shows how elegantly and movingly Michael Bracewell commanded this terrain for the Thatcherite 1980s. First published in 1992, The Conclave follows the aesthete-turned-City slicker Martin and his high-maintenance partner Marilyn through the gilded delights, and disappointments, of London's last gross spending binge. Tender, acute, dense with rich detail of those narcissistic times, Bracewell's chronicle shuns cheap satire and lends his Yuppie couple a Gatsby-like melancholy in the midst of affluence. Let's hope he returns to fiction soon. --The Independent

L'autore:

Michael Bracewell is a novelist and cultural commentator. His works include Re-make/Re-model: Becoming Roxy Music, and When Surface Was Depth: Death by Cappuccino and Other Reflections on Music and Culture in the 1990's. David Lodge, twice short-listed for the Booker Prize, is the author of 15 novels, including Author, Author and Changing Places.

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• Editore: Capuchin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0955731283
• ISBN 13: 9780955731280
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 341