A Thousand Pardons - Brossura

Dee, Jonathan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1472108337 ISBN 13: 9781472108333

Casa editrice: Corsair, 2013

Riassunto

Ben and Helen Armstead have reached breaking point and it takes one afternoon - and a single act of recklessness - for Ben to deal the final blow to their marriage, spectacularly demolishing everything they built together.

Helen and her teenage daughter Sara leave for Manhattan where Helen takes a job in PR - her first in many years - and discovers she has a gift for spinning crises into second chances. But can she apply her professional talent to her personal life?

A Thousand Pardons is an elegant, audacious, gripping and sharply observed novel about a marriage in ruins and a family in crisis; about the limits of self-invention and the seduction of self-destruction.

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Recensione:

A Thousand Pardons is that rare thing: a genuine literary thriller. Eerily suspenseful and packed with dramatic event, it also offers a trenchant, hilarious portrait of our collective longing for authenticity in these over-mediated times. (Jennifer Egan)

Guilt, redemption and the American dream of starting afresh are Pulitzer-Prize nominee Jonathan Dee's themes in this thoroughly enjoyable comic tale. (Stephanie Cross Daily Mail)

The American novelist who has his finger on the pulse. (Mark Lawson BBC Front Row)

Deliciously readable. (Irish Independent)

Slickly written and great entertainment. (Evening Standard)

Part relationship drama, part thriller, this is one of our favourite books of the year so far. (Bella)

...shrewdly observed and compulsively readable. (Literary Review)

With his sixth novel, Pulitzer finalist Dee has written a page turner without sacrificing a smidgen of psychological insight. What a triumph. (Kirkus (Starred Review))

Dee is an expert at encapsulating the vacuous marriage of two WASPs. (Stylist)

Dee is adept at meshing the complexities of marriage and family life with the paradoxes of the zeitgeist. In his sixth meticulously lathed and magnetizing novel, he riffs on the practice of crisis management.... [and] nets the absurdities of a society geared to communicate in a thousand electronic modes while those closest to each other can barely make eye connect. (Booklist)

Descrizione del libro:

New from the author of the critically acclaimed The Privileges, and featured in Simon Mayo's Radio 2 Book Club and Waterstones Book Club. Helen's marriage falls asunder in a spectacularly humiliating, public manner. Thrust into a future that feels like a nightmare, she struggles to come to terms with her husband's crisis, her daughter's estrangement, and her own capacity for forgiveness and reinvention.

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• Editore: Corsair
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1472108337
• ISBN 13: 9781472108333
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288