The Fall: A Novel - Couverture souple

Mawer, Simon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0316735590 ISBN 13 : 9780316735599

Editeur : Little, Brown Paperbacks, 2004

Synopsis

Rob Ross is driving home when he hears that his childhood friend Jim Matthewson has fallen to his death in a climbing accident. Rob's decision to turn his car around and make the journey to comfort Jim's widow is the beginning of a journey into the past, back to Rob's youth before he made the pivotal choices that now come back to haunt him.

Simon Mawer skillfully unveils the delicate layers of history in the lives of a group of people connected over the years by camaraderie, love, competition, and lust. In the shadow of an old love triangle lies the story of another, and as we follow the characters from London during the Blitz to the mountain ranges of the Alps and back to present-day Wales, Mawer reveals how the agonies of the past impinge upon the present.

This is an intelligent, thought-provoking love story by a brilliant, masterful novelist.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Wonderful and surprising. An absolute joy to read. Simon Mawer has entered the first rank of British novelists (Beryl Bainbridge)

Simon Mawer's work is rich with a desire to see through to the core of things (OBSERVER)

A haiku in ice . . . His narrative surges with an energy that thrusts the story forward to the very last page, from which a startling new light shines on all that has gone before (ECONOMIST)

Simon Mawer has created an exemplary model of a satisfying read (NEW YORK TIMES)

Biographie de l'auteur

Simon Mawer was born in 1948 in England, and spent his childhood there, in Cyprus and in Malta. He then moved to Italy, where he and his family lived for more than thirty years, and taught at the British International School in Rome. He and his wife currently live in Hastings. Simon Mawer is the author of several novels including the Man Booker shortlisted The Glass Room, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky and Tightrope.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0316735590
• ISBN 13: 9780316735599
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible