The Canal - Brossura

Rourke, Lee

 
9781935554011: The Canal
Brossura
ISBN 10: 1935554018 ISBN 13: 9781935554011
Casa editrice: Melville House, 2010

Sinossi

An electrifying debut novel that becomes a shocking tale about... boredom

In a deeply compelling debut novel, Lee Rourke—a British underground sensation for his story collection Everyday—tells the tale of a man who finds his life so boring it frightens him. So he quits his job to spend some time sitting on a bench beside a quiet canal in a placid London neighborhood, watching the swans in the water and the people in the glass-fronted offices across the way while he collects himself.

However his solace is soon interupted when a jittery young woman begins to show up and sit beside him every day. Although she won't even tell him her name, she slowly begins to tell him a chilling story about a terrible act she committed, something for which she just can't forgive herself—and which seems to have involved one of the men they can see working in the building across the canal.

Torn by fear and pity, the man becomes more immersed in her tale, and finds that boredom has, indeed, brought him to the most terrifying place he's ever been.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Lee Rourke is the author of the short story collection Everyday. He is also one of England's leading young literary critics, writing regularly for The Guardian, The Independent, TLS and the New Statesman, as well as leading book blogs such as Ready, Steady, Book. He is Contributing Editor at 3:AM Magazine and also blogs at Sponge! He lives in London.

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Editore
Melville House
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1935554018
ISBN 13 
9781935554011
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
224
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