FILTHY ENGLISH - Couverture souple

Meades, Jonathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 000715643X ISBN 13 : 9780007156436

Editeur : Fourth Estate, 2003

Synopsis

These short stories mark the start of a brilliant and black literary career.

A dog who stars in bestial pornographic movies describes the slippery slope towards aniseed addiction in 'Fur and Skin'. 'The Sylvan Life' is a story of rustling, hallucinogenic mushrooms and incest as they proliferate in the New Forest. In 'Spring and Fall' a rich and childless woman offers a sybaritic young boy a clandestine family life which becomes his downfall. The most extraordinary circumstances combine to provide the perfect alibi for a homosexual 'crime passionnel' in 'Oh So Bent', 'The Brute's Price' demonstrates the inadvertent steps an innocent man may take in bringing himself under suspicion of heinous murders on Portland. An injection of the criminal element into the pretensions of suburban Surrey provides the squalid drama of 'Rhododendron Gulch'. In the title story a relentlessly pedantic urge of a lexicographer to discover why his surname is a slang word for 'foot' leads him to a nightmarish revelation.

Jonathan Meades has a black imagination. Not content with disarming his readers an outrageous premise, he continues to tease their curiosity from one end of each story to the other. His is the kind of originality that comes along rarely, his characters the sort who lurk and linger round the back alleys of the mind.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Johnathan Meades is a British novellist and writer on food, architecture, and culture, as well as an innovative broadcaster. Perhaps best known for his television appearences on ‘Abroad with Jonathan Meades’ and its sequel series, Meades is also a succesful novellist. His previous books include The Illustrated Atlas of the World's Great Buildings (1980), Filthy English (1984), Architectural Expressions (2001), Incest and Morris Dancing (2002) and The Fowler Family Business (2002).

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Bestial pornographic movies and aniseed addiction; hallucinogenic mushrooms and incest; a homosexual crime passionel. As you would expect from Jonathan Meades, his disturbing collection of short stories introduces us to characters who lurk and linger around the back alleys of the mind.

'A marvellously potent vision.'
Nicholas Shakespeare, 'The Times'

'Luminously tasteless'
Roger Lewis, 'Punch'

'Jonathan Meades' enticingly repellent stories are posh bovver – they reach into parts of society more sensitive black comedians might well retch away from.'
Valentine Cunningham, 'Observer'

'A hugely original imagination – it's also undeniably horrible.'
Robert Nye, 'Guardian'

'Real flair and captivating eccentricity.'
John Melmouth, 'TLS'

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 000715643X
• ISBN 13: 9780007156436
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 162
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible