Why the Tree Loves the Axe - Couverture souple

Lewis, Jim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0006551033 ISBN 13 : 9780006551034

Editeur : Flamingo, 1999

Synopsis

The brilliant second novel by a new US literary star. * Caroline, 27, walks out of a marriage and into an old people's home where she meets cantankerous, lusty octogenarian Billy, who entrusts a secret to her. She goes from his deathbed to a wedding, where she is seduced by a beautiful man who tells her stories of her ex's antics back home. Bright, buoyant Bonnie, meanwhile, installs herself as Caroline's new best friend and accompanies her to a picnic that turns into a riot. When it is over, the world's altered: for Caroline is no longer herself -- she must flee being Caroline. We follow her long flight through trauma, fakery and captivity to redemption. * Jim Lewis's tale of how to measure love and its loss is a swooningly observant and atmospheric tale of rare resonance. * Lewis writes about sex, ageing, identity and bereavement with such newness and rightness that his reader is struck dumb. * Sister, Jim Lewis's debut, was rightly celebrated; but Why the Tree Loves the Axe betters it and brings him briskly to the very front of the American literary stage.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jim Lewis is the author of two previous books, a novel Sister, and in collaboration with photographer Jack Pierson, a book about Las Vegas, Real Gone.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Flamingo
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0006551033
• ISBN 13: 9780006551034
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible