The Uninvited Guests: A Novel - Couverture souple

Jones, Sadie

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ISBN 10 : 0062116517 ISBN 13 : 9780062116512

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2013

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))

Présentation de l'éditeur :

“The opening pages read like an episode of Downton Abbey...But Jones has something more uncanny in mind, and when the party is interrupted by survivors of a nearby train wreck, the comedy of manners turns downright surreal...Jones’s effervescent writing keeps the course steady-even as her characters shed their civilized veneers.” — Ellen Shapiro, People magazine (four star review)

A grand old manor house deep in the English countryside will open its doors to reveal the story of an unexpectedly dramatic day in the life of one eccentric, rather dysfunctional, and entirely unforgettable family. Set in the early years of the twentieth century, award-winning author Sadie Jones’s The Uninvited Guests is, in the words of Jacqueline Winspear, the New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs mysteries A Lesson in Secrets and Elegy for Eddie, “a sinister tragi-comedy of errors, in which the dark underbelly of human nature is revealed in true Shakespearean fashion.”

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0062116517
• ISBN 13: 9780062116512
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288