Boys Are Back in Town - Couverture rigide

Carr, Simon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0091793815 ISBN 13 : 9780091793814

Editeur : Hutchinson, 2000

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'Achingly funny and almost unbearably moving' Daily Mail

When Simon Carr's wife, Susie, tragically loses her battle with cancer, Simon is left to raise his five-year-old son, Alexander, on his own. Soon after, his eleven-year-old son from a previous marriage, Hugo, comes to live with them too. All too quickly, plumped-up cushions, crisp beds and a drifting scent of rosemary from the kitchen are replaced with a floor piled high with video-games, Lego® and comics. While visiting mothers deem his parenting 'semi-feral', Simon dryly retorts that his methods are simply 'free-range'.In this new all-male partnership, Simon faces the challenges of parenthood unaided, as father and sons alike learn to become a family again.

Carr's emotionally honest, compellingly anarchic and sharply comic story of a single parent's struggle is at once heartbreaking and wonderfully life-affirming.

'This wise, funny book tells us much about families and the human condition' Independent

'Compulsive' Guardian

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"Before my wife - my late wife - Susie got ill, she used to say that a tidy house created a force field-- Susie's housekeeping was a way of surrounding her family. Her presence was everywhere - in the drifting scent of Givenchy from the bedroom, or rosemary from the kitchen, or that lemon-scented cleaning agent coming from the bathroom."

"So there we are, a father and two sons in a household without role models, males together in a home different from anything I'd known - an idyllic Lost Boys' world with a house full of children and as few rules as possible."

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hutchinson
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0091793815
• ISBN 13: 9780091793814
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232