Feast Days - Couverture rigide

MacKenzie, Ian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0008298548 ISBN 13 : 9780008298548

Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

‘Brilliant. Among the best novels I know about the fate of American innocence abroad’ Garth Greenwell

So. We were Americans abroad. We weren’t the doomed travellers in a Paul Bowles novel, and we weren’t the idealists or the malarial, religion-damaged burnouts in something by Greene; but we were people far from home nevertheless. Our naivety didn’t have political consequences. We had G.P.S. in our smartphones. I don’t think we were alcoholics. Our passports were in the same drawer as our collection of international adapters, none of which seemed to fit in Brazilian wall sockets. My husband was in the chrysalis stage of becoming a rich man, and idealism was never my vice.

I was ancillary – a word that comes from the Latin for ‘having the status of a female slave’. That’s the sort of thing I know, and it tells you something about how I misspent my education. The term among expats for people like me was ‘trailing spouse’ . . .

‘Brutal, dazzling’ Daisy Johnson, Guardian

‘Captivating’Irish Times

‘Devastating, funny and wise’ Garth Greenwell

‘A triumph’ Samantha Harvey

‘A writer so gifted with language that you forget who you are in the poetry of his prose’ Uzodinma Iweala

‘Magnificent, profound, and true’ Elisa Albert

‘Reminded me in parts of Maggie Nelson. Stunning’ Sophie Mackintosh

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ian MacKenzie’s fiction has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, the Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard College, and has lived in New York City, Ethiopia, and Brazil. He currently lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter. Visit him at www.ianrmackenzie.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0008298548
• ISBN 13: 9780008298548
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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