A Possible Life - Couverture souple

Faulks, Sebastian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0091936829 ISBN 13 : 9780091936822

Editeur : Hutchinson, 2013

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"In form and scope, Sebastian Faulks's new novel is an unexpected delight . . . There's little sense of Faulks overreaching with heavily researched detail . . . you trust the narrative whether it is set in a workhouse or a death camp or a recording studio . . . It's rare to see an established writer broaden his range. A tightly written, moving and exciting work of fiction that deserves success, it should thrill established readers as well as win new fans. If you think you know Faulks - or even (and especially) if you haven't enjoyed his previous novels - it's time to look again." (Telegraph)

"Like the albums that Jack and Anya agonise over, A Possible Life is more than the sum of its parts . . . the stories acquire power as resonances between them accrete. Only at the end do you realise you've been won over by their quiet, glinting virtuosity" (The Times)

"An investigation into the nature of shared human experience . . . it does what any good novel should - it unsettles, it moves, and it forces us to question who we are" (Sunday Times)

"These stories are delicate, persuasive expressions of one of the melancholies of ageing - the sorry realisation that your life has after all not been as distinctive as it felt at the time, a realisation perhaps best met by the hope that the very communality of life can yet be treasured." (Evening Standard)

"Critics often underestimate Faulks's versatility: his protean restlessness, half disguised by mainstream bestsellerdom . . . All these 'possible' lives, as they echo and overlap like Anya's own motifs, add up (I suspect) to a portrait of the artist as he approaches 60" (Independent)

Quatrième de couverture :

'An investigation into the nature of shared human experience.it does what any good novel should - it unsettles, it moves, and it forces us to question who we are' Sunday Times

Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire.

Across the courtyard in a Victorian workhouse, a father too ashamed to acknowledge his son.

A skinny girl steps out of a Chevy with a guitar; her voice sends shivers through the skull.

From the pain and drama of these highly particular lives emerges a mysterious consolation: the chance to feel your heart beat in someone else's life.

'A tightly written, moving and exciting work of fiction' Telegraph

Sebastian Faulks is the author of nine novels, including the number one bestseller A Week in December, Human Traces, On Green Dolphin Street, Charlotte Gray and Birdsong.

www.sebastianfaulks.com

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hutchinson
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0091936829
• ISBN 13: 9780091936822
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304