Married Love - Couverture rigide

Hadley, Tessa

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0224096427 ISBN 13 : 9780224096423

Editeur : Jonathan Cape, 2012

Synopsis

Lottie announces at the breakfast table that she is getting married. The youngest daughter of a large and close-knit family, Lottie is nineteen but looks five years younger. Her fiance is Edgar Lennox, a composer of religious music and lecturer at Lottie's university, forty-five years her senior. We follow as Lottie's life unfolds; her marriage to Edgar, the tiny flat they share, the children that follow. It is a story of romantic dreams and daily reality, family loyalties tested but holding, and the comedy and solace to be found in small moments. Evoking a world that expands beyond the pages, it marks the beginning of what is an astonishing new collection. On full display in these stories are the qualities Tessa Hadley has been praised for often before: her unflinching examination of family relationships; her humour, warmth and psychological acuity; and, her powerful and precise prose. In this collection there are domestic dramas, generational sagas, wrenching love affairs and epiphanies - captured and distilled to remarkable effect. "Married Love" is a collection to treasure, a masterful new work from one of the most accomplished storytellers of today.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

These are quiet stories that challenge easy understandings of interpersonal dynamics and show the full complexity of human emotions. With humour and a lot of wit, Hadley elevates local, emotional relationships so that they completely eclipse any need for plot. (Emily Firetog Irish Times)

Hadley is a kind of serious, literary version of the cartoonist Posy Simmonds - no middle-class foible goes unobserved, and every emotion is traced back to its source. (SAGA)

Tessa Hadley returns to the fray with a gem-filled story collection that could serve as a masterclass in the art of short-form fiction writing. (Sunday Business Post)

Time and again, Hadley's prose unearths little treasures in the everyday... And she's as sharp as Alan Hollinghurst or Edward St Aubyn on the cruel comedy of English manners, which makes the unswerving compassion of these stories only more exceptional. (Thomas Marks Literary Review)

[O]ne of the most subtle and sublime contemporary writers. (Charlotte Sinclair Vogue)

Quatrième de couverture :

Married Love is a masterful collection of short fiction from one of today’s most accomplished storytellers. These tales showcase the qualities for which Tessa Hadley has long been praised: her humor, warmth, and psychological acuity; her powerful, precise, and emotionally dense prose; her unflinching examinations of family relationships. Here are stories that range widely across generations and classes, exploring the private and public lives of unforgettable characters: a young girl who haunts the edges of her parents’ party; a wife released by the sudden death of her film-director husband; an eighteen-year-old who insists on marrying her music professor, only to find herself shut out from his secrets. In this stunning collection, Hadley evokes worlds that expand in the imagination far beyond the pages, capturing domestic dramas, generational sagas, wrenching love affairs and epiphanies, and distilling them to remarkable effect.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0224096427
• ISBN 13: 9780224096423
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240