Morvern Callar - Couverture souple

Warner, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 038548741X ISBN 13 : 9780385487412

Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1997

Synopsis

Morvern Callar In his shocking debut novel, Scottish author Alan Warner probes the vast internal emptiness of the tripped-out, rave generation. Through the cool, haunting voice of his female narrator, Morvern Callar, he plunges readers into the brutal, intoxicating, hollow depths of one woman's opaque soul. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket in a desolate and beautiful port town in the west of Scotland, wakes one morning in late December to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on the kitchen floor. Morvern's reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling. Moving across a blurred European landscape-from rural poverty and drunken mayhem of the port to the Mediterranean rave scene-we experience everything from Morvern's stark, unflinching perspective.

Morvern is utterly hypnotizing from her very first sentence to her last. She rarely goes anywhere without the Walkman left behind as a Christmas present by her dead boyfriend, and as she narrates this strange story, she takes care to tell the reader exactly what music she is listening to, giving the stunning effect of a sound track running behind her voice.

In much the same way that Patrick McCabe managed to tell an incredibly rich and haunting story through the eyes of an emotionally disturbed boy in The Butcher Boy, Alan Warner probes the vast internal emptiness of a generation by using the cool, haunting voice of a female narrator lost in the profound anomie of the ecstasy generation. Morvern is a brilliant creation, not so much memorable as utterly unforgettable."

Quatrième de couverture

‘Brilliant, tender, a stylistic dazzler’ Hilary Mantel

It is off-season in a remote Highland sea port: twenty-one-year-old Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket, wakes one morning to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on their kitchen floor. Morvern's laconic reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling...

'Haunting and brilliantly original' Nick Hornby

See also: The Trick is to Keep Breathing

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 038548741X
• ISBN 13: 9780385487412
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256