Darkness Falls from the Air - Couverture souple

Balchin, Nigel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0330023586 ISBN 13 : 9780330023580

Editeur : Macmillan, 1969

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

One of the hopes of British novel-writing . . . A writer of genius (John Betjeman)

The missing writer of the Forties . . . Balchin's professional skill gives a meaning to brilliance which the word doesn't usually possess (Clive James NEW REVIEW)

[An] inexplicably neglected author (THE TIMES)

Balchin writes about timeless things, the places in the heart (Ruth Rendell SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

Balchin has been absurdly overlooked for too long (Julian Fellowes)

I'd place him up there with Graham Greene (Philippa Gregory)

Darkness Falls from the Air [has] the most perfect ending of any story I've ever read (Patrick McGrath)

A remarkable storyteller (DAILY MAIL)

A brilliant novelist . . . A writer of real skill (NEW STATESMAN)

He tells a story gloriously (DAILY TELEGRAPH)

Balchin has the rare magnetic power that draws the human eye from one sentence to the next (EVENING STANDARD)

Probably no other novelist of Mr. Balchin's value is so eminently and enjoyably readable . . . [He] never lets the reader down (Elizabeth Bowen TATLER)

Balchin has done so much to raise the standard of the popular novel (TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT)

A superb storyteller (SUNDAY TIMES)

Balchin can tell an exciting story as well as any novelist alive (SUNDAY CHRONICLE)

The novelist of men at work (GUARDIAN)

Mr. Balchin is a writer of such considerable and varied gifts . . . He is certainly one of the most intelligent novelists (TIME AND TIDE)

He can always be relied on to give us the set-up magnificently (BBC)

A little masterpiece like Nigel Balchin's The Small Back Room speaks to our own time, but with so much literary experience behind it (Shirley Hazzard)

One of the best writers, and certainly one of the best stylists, to come out of the war years (Michael Powell)

Perhaps the most successful British author to emerge during the war (SATURDAY EVENING POST)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The classic novel of the London Blitz, DARKNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR captures the chaos, absurdity and ultimately the tragedy of life during the bombardment.

Bill Sarratt is a civil servant working on the war effort. Thwarted at every turn by bureaucracy and the vested interests of big business, the seemingly unflappable Bill is also on the verge of losing his wife Marcia to a literary poseur named Stephen. As the bombs continue to fall, Bill must decide whether he his willing to compromise his principles and prevent his life from crumbling before his very eyes.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0330023586
• ISBN 13: 9780330023580
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208