The Rescue Man - Couverture rigide

Quinn, Anthony

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0224087274 ISBN 13 : 9780224087278

Editeur : Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Anthony Quinn

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'A love letter to Liverpool...ambitiously conceived...He has perfect pitch when it comes to the prose of each period, so much so that when I started the novel, I had the uncanny sense that what I was reading must have been salvaged from the 1940s. Equally remarkable is the Victorian prose of Eames's journal. Its every line convinces' Observer

'An excellent debut...a moving and powerfully told story of late coming-of-age and redemptive love' Literary Review

'The story has the resonant simplicity of a poem... The Rescue Man turns the ongoing frenzy of construction and destruction [of Liverpool] into a quietly powerful metaphor of how we grow up' Guardian

'Thematically rich and masterfully constructed' TLS

'Brilliant...an involving meditation on passion, history and architecture' Daily Mail

'Quinn has a cinematic eye for narrative scope... Like all good debut novels this book tells us something new' Spectator

Liverpool, 1939. Lonely historian Tom Baines is at work on a study of the city's architectural past but ominous news from Europe, together with his burgeoning friendship with Richard, a young photographer and his beautiful wife, Bella, are proving a distraction. When the bombings begin Tom joins up as a 'rescue man', saving the dead and dying from the ruins of buildings, but the love affair he embarks on soon leads him into a very different kind of danger.

Revue de presse :

"Thoughtful, beautifully observed and utterly compelling" (Independent on Sunday)

"A fascinating novel - very moving and beautifully nuanced and observed - it beguiles with a tremendous slow-burning power" (William Boyd)

"Brilliant...an involving meditation on passion, history and architecture" (Daily Mail)

"A love letter to Liverpool...ambitiously conceived... He has perfect pitch when it comes to the prose of each period, so much so that when I started the novel, I had the uncanny sense that what I was reading must have been salvaged from the 1940s. Its every line convinces" (Kate Kellaway Observer)

"The story has the resonant simplicity of a poem... The Rescue Man turns the ongoing frenzy of construction and destruction into a quietly powerful metaphor of how we grow up" (Guardian)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0224087274
• ISBN 13: 9780224087278
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320