The Comfort Zone - Couverture souple

Sheldon, Jeremy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0224062719 ISBN 13 : 9780224062718

Editeur : Jonathan Cape, 2002

Synopsis

Whether they're sitting at home getting stoned or getting cloned and sent to the other side of the galaxy, Jeremy Sheldon's characters are ultimately preoccupied with the important things in life: sex and food, love and football, masturbation and computer games. Sheldon creates a world where these regular recreational activities are pushed to extremes: a gang of bored friends compete to eat as much as they can in a supermarket sweep with a difference...the World Tekken Champion falls in love with the only woman who can beat his Jin Kazama with her Ling Xiaoyu...a bitter divorcee finds himself obsessed with the state of Fred Flintstone's marriage to Wilma...Sheldon's stories read deceptively easily, like comic books, like watching TV, and are often very funny. They are also an acute look at what it is to be young, male and English. His characters are diffident, blocked, emotionally muted, caught between the momentum of their desires and the frustrating clutches of their anxieties.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jeremy Sheldon was born in 1971 in London where he still lives, working as a script-reader and a DJ. He studied at the University of East Anglia where he was awarded an MA in creative writing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0224062719
• ISBN 13: 9780224062718
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible