Consumed - Couverture rigide

Cronenberg, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 000729915X ISBN 13 : 9780007299157

Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

The debut novel by the iconic film director.

Stylish and tech-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan thrive on the yellow journalism of the social-media age. They are lovers and competitors – nomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation and depravity, encountering each other only in airport hotels and browser windows.

Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines surrounding Célestine and Aristide Arosteguy, Marxist philosophers and sexual libertines. Célestine has been found dead and mutilated in her Paris apartment. Naomi sets off on the trail of Aristide, who has fled the country. But the truth behind the murder is disturbing and deadly.

Nathan, meanwhile, has contracted a rare STD called Roiphe’s. He travels to Toronto, determined to meet the man who discovered the syndrome. Dr. Barry Roiphe, now studies his own adult daughter, whose bizarre behaviour masks a devastating secret.

These parallel narratives become entwined in a gripping, dreamlike plot that involves geopolitics, 3-D printing, North Korea, the Cannes Film Festival, cancer, and, in an incredible number of varieties, sex. ‘Consumed’ is an exuberant, provocative debut novel from one of the world’s leading film directors.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David Cronenberg lives in Canada. His body of work as a film director – Shivers, Rabid, Fast Company, The Brood, Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Crash, eXistenz, The Dead Zone, M. Butterfly, Spider, A History of Violence and Eastern Promises – has received tremendous critical praise and numerous awards. He is an Officer in France's Order of Arts and Letters and an Officer in the Order of Canada. In 1999, he was President of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 000729915X
• ISBN 13: 9780007299157
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible