The Seed Collectors: A Novel - Rilegato

Thomas, Scarlett

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ISBN 10: 1593766467 ISBN 13: 9781593766467

Casa editrice: Soft Skull Pr, 2016

Riassunto

Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but then again they might also contain the secret of enlightenment. Not that anyone has much time for enlightenment. Fleur, left behind at the crumbling Namaste House, must step into Oleander's role as guru to lost and lonely celebrities. Bryony wants to lose the weight she put on after her botanist parents disappeared, but can't stop drinking. And Charlie struggles to make sense of his life after losing the one woman he could truly love.

A complex and fiercely contemporary tale of inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and family trees, The Seed Collectors is the most important novel yet from one of the world's most daring and brilliant writers. As Henry James said of George Eliot's Middlemarch, The Seed Collectors is a 'treasurehouse of detail' revealing all that it means to be connected, to be part of a society, to be part of the universe and to be human.

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Praise for The Seed Collectors:

[A] hyperbolic, raunchy, hilarious immersion in the connected lives of some intensely imperfect people Thomas is a literary star in the United Kingdom. She should be in the United States, too.” Kirkus Starred Review

The Seed Collectors is entrancing: it's a sharply observed contemporary novel of real people and real plants and real desire and real hurt, and it's somehow also one of the sharpest fantasies I've encountered. A sour-and-sweet delight.” Neil Gaiman

Simultaneously sharply-drawn and dreamlike, often hilarious, The Seed Collectors is a baroque family saga of human fallibility, love, eccentricity, sex, spirituality, and of a lost, legendary, coincidentally lethal route to absolute transcendence. Scarlett Thomas is a splendid novelist.” William Gibson

Scarlett Thomas is one of my favourite writers ever and The Seed Collectors might be her best yet. She fuses the comically everyday with a far-out botanical adventure in ways which are brutally funny and profound all at once. Barbed, casually genius, philosophical and intensely readable. A joy.” Matt Haig

Her prose is splendidly alive, full of unexpected phrases and delicious cadences . . . like Pratchett, Thomas blends her flippancy and her philosophy perfectly. A fantastical family saga.” The Guardian

Scarlett Thomas has a skillful way of blending fantasy and realism . . . The Seed Collectors is consistently enjoyable.” Financial Times

She has woven her distinct brand of mystery and intrigue into a complex family saga.” The Observer

You won’t read a livelier tale about sex, death and out-of-body experiences all year.” Sunday Times

"Blooming marvellous . . . [Scarlett Thomas is] one of our most exciting novelists." Independent on Sunday

"Her prose is positively luminous funny, daring, fizzing with ideas and altogether captivating." Daily Mail

A delightful compound of fantasy and traditional family saga . . . A modern fairy-tale, with flashes that are savagely funny.” The Times

"The Seed Collectors confirms Thomas as one of the most startling, unpredictable writers of her generation . . . This is a clever, chaotic novel, with a steely edge hidden behind its rambunctious shenanigans." Spectator

Thomas is a drily witty, ebullient writer, constantly bringing you up short with an arresting observation.” Metro

A rewarding family saga” Scotsman

This magical family saga will cement Thomas’ position at the literary top table” Red

A smart and witty family drama, taking in secrets, sex, suicide, celebrity and the meaning of life.” Glamour

Always original . . . a mindbending novel of family drama” Good Housekeeping

How I love her work!” Grazia, Writer and performer Molly Naylor chose THE SEED COLLECTORS as her top pick in Grazia’s Ups and Downs’ feature

Dazzling” The Lady

Sharp writing and sharper wit . . . a clever, thought-provoking book’ List

Scarlett Thomas is an excellent writer, with a great eye for the detail and idiosyncrasy of the modern world . . . The Seed Collectors cleverly manages to be a pacey read that still finds the space to engage with philosophy and the fantastic. Fun and thoughtful’ Emerald Street in their Reading Room’ section

Extremely good fun . . . riotous, gorgeous, full of flamboyant escapades” Cathy Rentzenbrink, Monocles Arts Review

With each novel, Thomas’s ambitions have grown larger, and this is her most sophisticated...in a world of fading wunderkinds, Scarlett Thomas is proving to be the real deal.” Catholic Herald

Let me be clear. This book will not make you feel good. This book will not give you answers. What it will do is take you on a treasure-chase to the edge of your understanding, and lead you to the realisation that it was never about a destination, but the journey. Thomas’s novels are always oozing with contemporary resonance, so read it. Now.” Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings (blog)

I loved it” A Life in Books (blog)

Scarlett Thomas has written an amazing book. I loved it.” Postcard Reviews (blog)

A very modern comedy of manners, touching on themes as diverse as family, desire, academia, and the cult of celebrity . . . a beautifully written, if casually brutal, novel.” Words that can only be your own (blog)

Scarlett Thomas has crafted something extraordinary and beautiful . . . No-one does botany, incest, bondage, yoga and shopping quite like Scarlett Thomas.” Bookmunch (Blog)

I adored this book it's weird and wonderful, mad and fucking clever. Highly recommended.” Bookc*nt (blog)

This is, for me, far and away the best book I've read this year, and the best I expect to read for a long time.” Blue Book Balloon (blog)

Features

Scarlett Thomas was interviewed on Janice Forsyth’s BBC Radio Scotland Show

Scarlett Thomas wrote a piece on the Guardian about dirty books: 'Forget EL James, let’s have some real dirty fiction'

THE SEED COLLECTORS was included in Good Housekeeping’s 17 best summer reads
THE SEED COLLECTORS also featured at #9 in Buzzfeed’s 35 Brilliant New Books You Should Read This Summer’.
The Seed Collectors was longlisted for the Guardian Not The Booker Prize longlist:

Stylist chose The Seed Collectors as one of their Top 100 Summer Reads in their Digital edition Summer Special:

L'autore:

Scarlett Thomas was born in London in 1972. Her other novels include PopCo, The End of Mr.Y which was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, and Our Tragic Universe. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Soft Skull Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1593766467
• ISBN 13: 9781593766467
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 374