How to be Good - Couverture souple

Hornby, Nick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140287019 ISBN 13 : 9780140287011

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

243 pages. Tranche passée. Etat d'usage Couv. convenable Intérieur acceptable In-8 Carré Broché 'Vintage Nick Hornby, Very funny and very clever, and packed with wit and brilliance', Spectator.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent and emotionally generous all at once."—The New York Times Book Review"

A darkly funny and thought-provoking ride."—USA Today

"A bitingly clever novel of ideas...[a] profound, worrying, hilarious, sophisticated, compulsive novel."—The Sunday Times (UK)

"Daringly different."—New York Daily News

"How to be good? How to be bloody marvelous more like."—The Mail on Sunday(UK)

"Breezily hilarious and thought-provoking at the same time."—New York Magazine

"Seriousness spiked with humor...a page-turner."—The Washington Times

"A thorny parable...very funny and shrewd."—Salon.com

Quatrième de couverture :

Katie Carr, doctor (and self-declared "good person"), has just had an affair. It's really not her fault - she is, after all, married to David ; angry, cynical, negative (though undeniably funny) and a real pain to live with. But then David meets DJ GoodNews, astonishingly effective faith healer and do-gooder of the unbearably smug kind. And now David is good. Too good actually - "a liberal's worst nightmare", he starts to put Henry into practice, giving away their kids' toys, reaching out to the hopeless and himself in a very personal and, for Katie, disturbing way. It seems to her that if charity begins at home, it may be time to move...

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0140287019
• ISBN 13: 9780140287011
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 256