Mr Toppit - Couverture souple

Elton, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141038004 ISBN 13 : 9780141038001

Editeur : Penguin, 2009

Synopsis

And out of the Darkwood Mr Toppit comes, and he comes not for you, or for me, but for all of us...

When the author of The Hayseed Chronicles, Arthur Hayman, is mown down by a concrete truck in Soho, his legacy passes to his widow, Martha, and her children - the fragile Rachel, and Luke, reluctantly immortalised as Luke Hayseed, the central character of his father's books. But others want their share, particularly Laurie, who has a mysterious agenda of her own that changes all their lives. For buried deep in the books lie secrets which threaten to be revealed as the family begins to crumble under the heavy burden of their inheritance.

Spanning several decades, from the heyday of the British film industry after the war to the cut-throat world of show business in Los Angeles, Mr Toppit is a riveting tale of the unexpected effects of sudden fame and fortune. Not since Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up! has a novel managed to capture a family and a society to such wonderfully funny and painful effect.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Charles Elton lives in London and Somerset with his two children. This is his first novel.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

'An extraordinary debut. Dark, funny . . . jangly with secrets' Sunday Times

When Arthur Hayman, writer of The Hayseed Chronicles, dies a bizarre chain of events conspire to make his series of children's books world famous. But buried deep inside the books lie secrets that begin to shake the fragile Hayman family - Arthur's son, Luke, reluctantly immortalized as the young hero of the series, his daughter, Rachel, for whom the books are a hole through which her life has fallen, and his enigmatic wife Martha, who knows that secrets are best kept well-hidden.

For the rest of us, the Hayseed Chronicles are a fascinating mystery. And at their heart is the twisted, unknowable Mr Toppit, who will let neither Luke nor Rachel nor Martha out of his grasp . . .

'A cracker. Elton has an arch wit, an engaging style and a sense of invention that recalls Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up! . . . You are gripped' Evening Standard

'A masterly tale of quiet torment' Sunday Telegraph

'Painfully funny' Marie Claire

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0141038004
• ISBN 13: 9780141038001
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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