A Serious Man - Couverture rigide

Storey, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 022405158X ISBN 13 : 9780224051583

Editeur : Jonathan Cape, 1998

Synopsis

As playright, painter and novelist, Richard Fenchurch has been both successful and rich, but now, in his mid-sixties, he's begining to fall apart: again. His daughter plucks him from the squalor of his London house and installs him in the old family home, the mansion where he courted his first wife. Here in a familiar house and in a changed though recognised landscape, Fenchurch struggles to keep his grip on freedom and sanity, and allows himself to relax into memory. Time is catching up wit him, but it is memory that produces the more startling revelation. Fenchurch's love for his wife was real enough-it was successful marriage as these things go-but the old surroundings, both the building and land itself, bring back to him irresistibly ardent drive of his passionate affair with Isabella, his fiancee's mother. Returning to fiction after fourteen years, David Story has created both a sharply comic version of the indignities of age and delicately erotic evocation of a youthful and dangerous affair.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

As playwright, painter and novelist, Richard Fenchurch has been both successful and rich, but now, in his mid-sixties, he's beginning to fall apart: again. His daughter plucks him from the squalor of his London house and installs him in the old family home, the mansion where he courted his first wife. Here, in a familiar house and in a changed though recognisable landscape, Fenchurch struggles to keep his grip on freedom and sanity, and allows himself to relax into memory. Time is catching up with him, but it is memory that produces the more startling revelation. Fenchurch's love for his wife was real enough - it was a successful marriage as these things go - but the old surroundings, both the building and the land itself, bring back to him the irresistibly ardent drive of his passionate affair with Isabella, his fiancée's mother. Returning to fiction after fourteen years, David Storey has created both a sharply comic vision of the indignities of age and a delicately erotic evocation of a youthful and dangerous affair.

Biographie de l'auteur

David Storey was born in 1933 in Wakefield, and studied at the Slade School of Art. His eight previous novels have won many prizes, including the Macmillan Fiction Award, The Somerset Maugham Award, the Faber Memorial Prize and, in 1976, the Booker Prize for Saville. He is also the author of fifteen plays. He lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 022405158X
• ISBN 13: 9780224051583
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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