Dead Babies - Couverture souple

Amis, Martin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140070028 ISBN 13 : 9780140070026

Editeur : Penguin Books, 1984

Synopsis

Guests are circulating in a haze of gin-rickies, blue movies, uppers, downers and inside-outers. Friday melts into Saturday, Saturday spirals into Sunday and then, the assembled Sloanes, funny-guys and Americans in this satire on the Seventies.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

If the Marquis de Sade were to crash one of P. G. Wodehouse's house parties, the chaos might resemble the nightmarishly funny goings-on in this novel by the author of London Fields. The residents of Appleseed Rectory have primed themselves both for a visit from a triad of Americans and a weekend of copious drug taking and sexual gymnastics. There's even a heifer to be slugged and a pair of doddering tenants to be ingeniously harassed. But none of these variously bright and dull young things has counted on the intrusion of "dead babies" -- dreary spasms of reality. Or on the uninvited presence of a mysterious prankster named Johnny, whose sinister idea of fun makes theirs look like a game of backgammon.

Revue de presse

"Sparkling might not be the first adjective that springs to mind to describe a novel packed with the concentrated disgust which Dead Babies contains. Nevertheless, Martin Amis's version of the bleak and wrecky future that awaits a sex-and-drug-addicted society is so fizzing with style, so busy with verbal inventiveness, that the adjective is impelled upon one." -- Julian Barnes

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books
• Date d'édition: 1984
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140070028
• ISBN 13: 9780140070026
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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