Gate of Air: A Ghost Story - Brossura

James Buchan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1847249876 ISBN 13: 9781847249876

Casa editrice: Quercus Publishing Plc, 2009

Riassunto

When mysterious loner Jim Smith moves into remote Paradise Farmhouse, he experiences some strange but wonderful midnight visits from an ethereal woman. He soon discovers that this dream-like figure is the incarnation of a 1960s beauty, immortalized in a famous nude portrait that belongs to his neighbour. Intrigued, Jim abandons his customary aloofness to find out more, and accepts a dinner invitation from his landlords - a billionaire-thug and his beautiful but mistreated wife. The dinner party - a chance for a brilliantly satirical sketch of the braying upper class hunting set - is disastrous and, soon after, Jim's pastoral idyll disintegrates. His lambs die. Cows give no milk. Bees swarm. Sensing his ghostly lover has turned malevolent, Jim knows he must placate her before the circle of decay reaches those he loves - even if that means making the ultimate sacrifice. Both unsettling ghost story and intense love story, The Gate of Air is by turns poetic, learned, satirical and allegorical. This is a beautifully crafted novel about love and loneliness, life and death, and the indelible traces we leave behind us when we die.

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Recensione:

'Nobody - but nobody - tells a love story better.' --Paul Baily, Daily Telegraph

'...beguiling, poetic prose...a moving meditation on what it is to love.' --Daily Mail.

'I don't believe this country has a better writer to offer than James Buchan.' Michael Hofmann, London Review of Books. 'A wayward and extraordinary ghost story which finds room for both a personal appearance by the goddess of love and a discourse on the political economy of the British countryside.' Evening Standard Books of the Year. 'This story marries classic format with modern details... Buchan has a sharp eye for social detail and the influence of money makes this book entertaining on a profane as well as a spiritual level... with vivid descriptions of the English countryside and a ghost with the grace of a young Jean Shrimpton, this is a spook tale with both style and substance.' Catholic Herald. --Reviews.

L'autore:

James Buchan is the author of several novels, including A Parish of Rich Women, which won the 1984 Whitbread Book of the Year award, and Heart's Journey in Winter which won the Guardian prize. He is also an outstanding literary critic and non-fiction writer. He is the grandson of John Buchan, the Scottish novelist.

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• Editore: Quercus Publishing Plc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1847249876
• ISBN 13: 9781847249876
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224