Ever After - Couverture souple

Swift, Graham

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0330507869 ISBN 13 : 9780330507868

Editeur : Picador, 2010

Synopsis

'A subtle book that lingers in the mind ...Here is a writer of very considerable power' Daily Telegraph An academic sits alone in his college room thinking about the people he has lost. Powerful memories crowd in on him -- childhood days in Paris; his exuberant, glamorous mother; his mysterious father; and the brash young American who becomes his step-father. Mingled with this emerges a tender portrait of his relationship with his actress wife. Ever After is a poignant elegy to lost faith and lost hope. It is also a powerful affirmation of love. 'Touching and beguiling ...Graham Swift has written a deeply felt and rather haunting novel' Anita Brookner, Spectator 'Swift is set apart by his acute observation and thrilling exactness of description ...Exceptional' The Times 'A remarkable feat' Evening Standard 'Graham Swift has performed a literary tour de force in this novel' Literary Review

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Dazzling in its structure and shattering in its emotional force, Graham Swift's Ever After spans two centuries and settings from the adulterous bedrooms of postwar Paris to the contemporary entanglements in the groves of academe. It is the story of Bill Unwin, a man haunted by the death of his beautify wife and a survivor himself of a recent brush with mortality. And although it touches on Darwin and dinosaurs, bees and bridge builders, the true subject of Ever After is nothing less than the eternal question, "Why should things matter?"

Revue de presse :

"Ever After is explicitly concerned with historical investigation, love, death, family affairs.... It moves quickly, and it vibrates with feeling and thought." -- Wall Street Journal

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0330507869
• ISBN 13: 9780330507868
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288