AND Small Holdings - Couverture souple

Barker, Nicola

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0007163991 ISBN 13 : 9780007163991

Editeur : Flamingo, 2003

Synopsis

Two novels from Nicola Barker, published for the first time together in a single volume. 'Small Holdings': it's all go in a little oasis of nature, in this stirring tale of subterfuge among the shrubbery - plus 'Reversed Forecast', the prize-winning first novel from England's greatest female comic novelist. 'Small Holdings' is set in an attractive park in north London. The protagonists are Phil, a chronically shy gardener; Doug, his imposing and unpredictable supervisor; and a malevolent one-legged ex-museum curator called Saleem. Phil strives nobly to maintain his equilibrium despite being systematically mystified, brutalised, drugged, derided and seduced. But when he loses his eyebrows, he decides to fight back. 'Reversed Forecast' is a novel of gambling and allergies, music and dogs, set in some of London's less scenic locations. Its characters select each other and try or don't try to make winning combinations. But, as Ruby, this story's soft-centred heroine, observes: 'Losing, that's the whole point of the gamble.'

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

NICOLA BARKER was born in Ely in 1966 and spent part of her childhood in South Africa. She lives and works in east London. She was the winner of the David Higham Prize for Fiction and joint winner of the Macmillan Silver Pen Award for Love Your Enemies, her first collection of stories (1993). Her first novel Reversed Forecast was published in 1994 and the short novel Small Holdings followed in 1995. Then came a second collection of short stories Heading Inland, for which Nicola received an Arts Council Writers' Award and the 1997 John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize. Her third novel Wide Open was published in 1998, and won the English-speaking world's biggest literary award for a single work, the IMPAC Prize. In 2000 she published another short novel, Five Miles from Outer Hope. Her fifth and longest novel, Behindlings, was published by Flamingo in 2002.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Flamingo
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0007163991
• ISBN 13: 9780007163991
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible