We're in Trouble - Couverture rigide

Coake, Christopher

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151010943 ISBN 13 : 9780151010943

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005

Synopsis

Each of the seven stories in this extraordinary debut collection dramatizes a deep love staring at the face of death- an encounter that elicits either the best or the worst in these vividly drawn characters. In "We're in Trouble," a woman is asked to end her dying husband's suffering. In "Abandon," a troubled young man must risk jail to do right by the only woman he has ever loved. And "In the Event" shows a young musician's all-night vigil after his best friends' sudden deaths leave him the guardian of their three-year-old son.

Suspenseful and empathic, these dramatically constructed stories show love darkening and persevering as it is tried by the cold reality of death. From a wife waiting for news of her husband's latest death-defying climb, to a sheriff thrown into turmoil after his close friend enacts a horrifying murder-suicide, Coake makes us feel the truth of his characters' lives and transforms it into cathartic art.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Each of the seven stories in this extraordinary debut collection dramatizes a deep love staring at the face of death- an encounter that elicits either the best or the worst in these vividly drawn characters. In "We're in Trouble," a woman is asked to end her dying husband's suffering. In "Abandon," a troubled young man must risk jail to do right by the only woman he has ever loved. And "In the Event" shows a young musician's all-night vigil after his best friends' sudden deaths leave him the guardian of their three-year-old son.

Suspenseful and empathic, these dramatically constructed stories show love darkening and persevering as it is tried by the cold reality of death. From a wife waiting for news of her husband's latest death-defying climb, to a sheriff thrown into turmoil after his close friend enacts a horrifying murder-suicide, Coake makes us feel the truth of his characters' lives and transforms it into cathartic art.

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PRAISE FOR WE'RE IN TROUBLE
"Sometimes, when you're reading the stories, you forget to breathe . . . They're beautifully written, and they have bottom, but they're never dull, and they all contain striking and dramatic narrative ideas . . . They're literary in the sense that they're serious, and will probably be nominated for prizes, but they're unliterary in the sense that they could end up mattering to people." - NICK HORNBY, THE BELIEVER

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0151010943
• ISBN 13: 9780151010943
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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