The Motion of the Body Through Space - Couverture souple

Shriver, Lionel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0007560818 ISBN 13 : 9780007560813

Editeur : The Borough Press, 2021

Synopsis

From the Orange Prize-winning author of "We Need to Talk About Kevin". The story of an obsession, of a marriage, of a betrayal: "The Motion of the Body Through Space" is Lionel Shriver at her hilarious, sharp-eyed, audacious best.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

LIONEL SHRIVER’S novels include the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, the Sunday Times bestseller The Mandibles, and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, winner of the Orange Prize. A regular on multiple podcasts, she’s written fortnightly columns for the Spectator since 2017. Her journalism has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Harper’s, TheTimes, UnHerd, the FT, The Free Press, Spiked Online and many other media outlets.

She lives in Portugal and Brooklyn, New York.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled – on her lonesome. But now that she’s hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with dread, her previously sedentary husband Remington, recently and ignominiously redundant, chooses this precise moment to discover exercise.

Which should be good for his health, right? Yet as he joins the cult of fitness that seems increasingly to consume the whole of the Western world, her once-modest husband burgeons into an unbearable narcissist. Ignoring all his other obligations in the service of extreme sport, he engages a saucy, taunting personal trainer named Bambi, who treats his wife with contempt. When Remington announces his intention to compete in a legendarily gruelling triathlon, MettleMan, Serenata is sure he's going to end up injured or dead – but the stubbornness of an ageing man in Lycra is not to be underestimated.

The story of an obsession, of a marriage, of a betrayal: The Motion of the Body Through Space is Lionel Shriver at her hilarious, sharp-eyed, audacious best.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Borough Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0007560818
• ISBN 13: 9780007560813
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: HarperCollins Publishers, Product Safety Manager; enquiries@harpercollins.ie; ; HarperCollins, Macken House, 39/40 Mayor Street Upper; Dublin 1; D01 C9W8; Irlande