The Book of Intimate Grammar - Couverture souple

Grossman, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0330335944 ISBN 13 : 9780330335942

Editeur : Picador, 1996

Synopsis

By the author of "Sleeping on a Wire". Twelve-year-old Aron is appalled when his friends begin to leave their childhood imaginations behind. This book is about the alchemy of childhood, which transforms loneliness and fear into creation, and the struggle to emerge as an artist.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"It's a rare achievement for the magic of childhood to be treated so weightily" (Mail on Sunday)

"When the Israeli writer David Grossman's See Under: Love was published...he was compared legitimately to Kafka, Grass, Márquez and Joyce....David Grossman's own intimate grammar will speak to anyone who was ever twelve" (The Boston Globe)

"It is an achievement that is full of charm and courage" (Andrew Motion)

"Like [Virginia] Woolf, Grossman is uncanny at reproducing an experience from the inside out...the writing reminds you of the great, solemn mystery of literature, what the poet Czeslaw Milosz calls 'the human possibility of being someone else" (Chicago Tribune)

"Mr. Grossman's balance between the poetic and the profane is perfect....[The Book of Intimate Grammar] is See Under: Love's stylistic twin: the beauty and intelligence of the writing are dazzling....It can be read at once, as a tale of magic realism, a parable about the damage left in the wake of the Holocaust, a psychological portrait of a child's descent into madness, and, finally, as a comical but searing indictment of the Jewish family" (New York Times Book Review)

Présentation de l'éditeur

Eleven years old and on the cusp of puberty, Aron Kleinfeld is precocious, imaginative - the leader of his gang of friends. But his bar mitzvah is looming, his friends are all hitting puberty and Aron, terrified and revolted by what he sees around him, enters a state of arrested development. He stops growing, retreats from the world, and is imprisoned in the body of a child for three long years. While Israel inches towards the Six-Day War, and his friends cross the boundary between childhood and adolescence, Aron remains in his child's body, spying on the changes that adulthood wreaks as, like his hero Houdini, he struggles to escape the trap of growing up.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0330335944
• ISBN 13: 9780330335942
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible