What are You Like? - Couverture souple

Enright, Anne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0224060635 ISBN 13 : 9780224060639

Editeur : Jonathan Cape, 2000

Synopsis

20 year old Maria, leaves Dublin for New York and falls in love with a man there. Going through his wallet, she finds a photo of herself, aged 12, wearing the blue shirt she had always wanted but never owned and a pair of red espadrilles when hers had been blue, the smile was hers - the perfect stranger, the same only different. How could this be?

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

When Maria turns twenty, she falls in love. She is in the wrong town, and he is the wrong sort of man. Going through his things, she finds a photo of herself when she was twelve years old. She has the same smile, but she is wearing the wrong clothes: she is the same, only different.

Anne Enright's astonishing novel moves between Dublin, New York and London, following the lives of the real Maria and the girl in the picture. Stepping through the mirror to tell the story of the two women, both haunted by their missing selves, What Are You Like? Is an exquisitely written disquisition on families and identity. It is a modern story, full of genetic jokes, of splitting and dislocation, and it is one of the oldest stories there is: a novel about twins. Threading together the lives of two young women, it confirms Anne Enright as not only the most original Irish writer of her generation, but also as one of the finest, funniest, and most affecting.

Biographie de l'auteur

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published two collection of stories, collected as Yesterday’s Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and five novels, including The Gathering, which was the Irish Novel of the Year, and won the Irish Fiction Award and the 2007 Man Booker Prize, and The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. She is the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0224060635
• ISBN 13: 9780224060639
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible