The Seed Collectors - Brossura

Thomas Scarlett

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1847679226 ISBN 13: 9781847679222

Casa editrice: CANONGATE BOOKS, 2016

Riassunto

What secrets are hiding in your family tree? 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 . . . 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.

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"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)

"You won't read a livelier tale about sex, death and out-of-body experiences all year" (SUNDAY TIMES)

"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)

"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" (GUARDIAN)

"A delightful compound of fantasy and traditional family saga... a modern fairytale, with flashes that are savagely funny" (THE TIMES)

"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)

"Positively luminous - funny, daring, fizzing with ideas and altogether captivating" (DAILY MAIL)

"Thomas has the mesmerising power of a great storyteller" (FINANCIAL TIMES)

"[Thomas] is the laureate of the sardonic and the sarcastic. Imagine Muriel Spark's disreputable niece, punky and porny and puncturing every balloon of ego. The novel is outré and extravagant, unremitting and unrepentant, sweet and sour and salty" (SPECTATOR)

"Fun and thoughtful" (EMERALD STREET)

"Sharp writing and sharper wit" (THE LIST)

"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)

"A mindbending novel of family drama" (GOOD HOUSEKEEPING)

"How I love her work!" (GRAZIA)

"She has woven her distinct brand of mystery and intrigue into a complex family saga" (OBSERVER)

"Extremely good fun...riotous, gorgeous, full of flamboyant escapades" (MONOCLE ARTS REVIEW) --Neil Gaiman

"A rewarding family saga" (SCOTSMAN) --Scotsman

"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) --Catholic Herald

L'autore:

Scarlett Thomas was born in London in 1972. Her other novels include Bright Young Things, 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.

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• Editore: CANONGATE BOOKS
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1847679226
• ISBN 13: 9781847679222
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384