Sun Dog - Brossura

Roffey, Monique

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1849833036 ISBN 13: 9781849833035

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2011

Riassunto

Author of The Mermaid of Black Conch, Rathbone Folio Prize 2021 longlisted, Winner of the Costa Best Novel Award 2020 & Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2020

August Chalmin feels the weather like no one else.

A large awkward recluse, with bright orange hair and sun-shy eyes, August hides himself away behind the counter of a Shepherd's Bush deli. One winter's day two things change his life forever: his mother's ex-lover Cosmo shambles back into his life, and he discovers a rash on his arm which looks like frost. A rash which is frost.

As Cosmo raises questions about August's identity, August finds himself changing with the seasons, in a journey that takes him deep into his past and to the very centre of his soul...

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Recensione

'Full of sensuality... a delightfully unusual debut'
The Times
'Enchanting. Roffey handles this modern-day metamorphosis beautifully'
Daily Mail
'It's rare to read a novel with such a big heart'
Guardian
'Beautifully written - an extraordinary first novel. Buy it, then tell all your friends to do the same'
Heat
'A highly original and imaginative literary love story. Bewitching'
Daily Express
'A brilliant idea, brilliantly executed'
Daily Mirror
'Striking, original and razor sharp'
Dazed & Confused
'A feast to the senses... Monique Roffey's rich imagination makes the ordinary feel exotic and the extraordinary seems as natural as the seasons. Her book sharpens the appetite for life'
Lindsay Clarke, author of The Chymical Wedding
'Roffey's debut novel, written seven years before her Orange-prize shortlisted second, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, is remarkable not for its plot - which navigates her lovelorn central character, August's present-day reality in a Shepherd's Bush delicatessen with the ghosts of his past - but for the richness with which Roffey brings ordinary scenes to life.
The real achievement of this debut is her evident relish and aptitude for words, with which she infuses a painterly three-dimensionality into characters and scenes.
Structured around the seasons, it is a family drama and love story - flecked with magical realism and absorbing on all counts - but best read for the pleasure of sinking into Roffey's lusciously rendered everyday world'
Independent

L'autore

Monique Roffey was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and educated in the UK. Her highly acclaimed debut novel, Sun Dog, was published in 2002. Since then she has worked as a Centre Director for the Arvon Foundation and has held the post of Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Sussex and Chichester universities. She currently lives in Harlesden, north London, where she spends most of the day in her pyjamas, writing.
www.moniqueroffey.co.uk

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1849833036
• ISBN 13: 9781849833035
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV, GPSR Europäische Union; info@simonandschuster.nl; ; Herculesplein 96; Utrecht; 3584 AA; Paesi Bassi