The Uninvited Guests: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Jones, Sadie

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0062116509 ISBN 13 : 9780062116505

Editeur : Harper, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Jones Sadie

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“A comedy of manners that turns downright surreal...Jones’s effervescent writing keeps the course steady-even as her characters shed their civilized veneers.” (Ellen Shapiro, People Four Star Review)

“Entertaining...Jones is a writer of admirable narrative energy...with a painfully accurate, almost Stoppardian ear for dialogue and a delightful streak of cruelty that flirts with...the gothic.” (Lev Grossman, Time Magazine)

“The Uninvited Guests is at once a shimmering comedy of manners and disturbing commentary on class. It is so well-written, so intricately plotted, that every page delivers some new astonishment. It is a brilliant novel.” (Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder)

“What opens as an amusing Edwardian country house tale soon becomes a sinister tragi-comedy of errors, in which the dark underbelly of human nature is revealed in true Shakespearean fashion. Sadie Jones is a most talented and imaginative storyteller, and The Uninvited Guests a very clever novel.” (Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times Bestselling author of ELEGY FOR EDDIE)

“Vividly atmospheric...niftily deceptive...a story of shattered snobbery, transformation of character and in the end a surprising and eerily beautiful portrait of compassion...A sublimely clever book.” (Mary Pols, San Francisco Chronicle)

“Delicious...comparisons with Downton Abbey will be both inevitable and fair.” (Wall Street Journal)

“...THE UNINVITED GUESTS...defied my expectations. I saw none of it coming. I read it in one breathless sitting, and finished wanting to give it to everyone I know.” (Maile Meloy, Nationally Bestselling Author of BOTH WAYS IS THE ONLY WAY I WANT IT)

“What a delicious read! Like something written by a wicked Jane Austen,...I was captivated by its madcap nature and then, unprepared for the strange fruit that the story became.” (Sarah Blake, New York Times Bestselling Author of THE POSTMISTRESS)

“What opens as an amusing Edwardian country house tale soon becomes a sinister tragi-comedy of errors...in true Shakespearean fashion. Sadie Jones is a most talented and imaginative storyteller.” (Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times Bestselling Author of ELEGY FOR EDDIE)

“A remarkable dark comedy...Jones’s characters are delightfully eccentric, the wit delightfully droll, and the prose simply delightful. But for all its charm, this is a serious book...” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

Quatrième de couverture :

One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honor of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savory survivors to seek shelter at the ramshackle manor—and the household is thrown into confusion and mischief.

The cook toils over mock turtle soup and a chocolate cake covered with green sugar roses, which the hungry band of visitors is not invited to taste. But nothing, it seems, will go according to plan. As the passengers wearily search for rest, the house undergoes a strange transformation. One of their number (who is most definitely not a gentleman) makes it his business to join the birthday revels.

Evening turns to stormy night, and a most unpleasant parlor game threatens to blow respectability to smithereens: Smudge Torrington, the wayward youngest daughter of the house, decides that this is the perfect moment for her Great Undertaking.

The Uninvited Guests is the bewitching new novel from the critically acclaimed Sadie Jones. The prizewinning author triumphs in this frightening yet delicious drama of dark surprises—where social codes are uprooted and desire daringly trumps propriety—and all is alight with Edwardian wit and opulence.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062116509
• ISBN 13: 9780062116505
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272