A Revolution of the Sun - Couverture rigide

Pears, Tim

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0385601182 ISBN 13 : 9780385601184

Editeur : Doubleday, 2000

Synopsis

It begins at the stroke of midnight on the first day of 1997. As the year turns, a group of disparate individuals from different backgrounds are about to embark on separate journeys which will converge over the course of the next 12 months.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

'Tim Pears specialises in grand panoramas of our national life: teeming casts and multi-tracked plotting heavy with the scent of zeitgeist. For this, and quite a lot more besides, he deserves the highest praise'

Guardian

It begins at the stroke of midnight on January 1st 1997.

Over the course of this year a group of desperately different and unconnected individuals will meet: among them a mother-to-be, an amnesiac; a Conservative MP and a lonely cat burglar. They do not yet know that their lives are about to change, nor that they share a destiny which will prove impossible to withstand.

A Revolution of the Sun tells of one momentous year through the eyes of the people who lived it, and is also the anatomy of a nation in flux. Ambitious, powerful, irresistible, this is the work of an extraordinary writer who once again proves himself as a great contemporary novelist.

'The scope of this novel is far reaching. That it succeeds in combining all the elements and thrusting them ever forwards with humour and affection is testament to Pears' bold vision and large talent'

Daily Mail

Présentation de l'éditeur

It begins at the stroke of midnight on the first day of 1997. As the year turns, a group of disparate individuals from different backgrounds, from all corners of the country, are about to embark on separate journeys which will converge over the course of the next twelve months: among them, Rebecca - mother-to-be, Sam - amnesiac, Roderick - Conservative MP, Jack - lorry driver, Martha - cat burglar, Ben - paraplegic child, Solo - his abandoned father.

At the end of that year, their lives will have changed irrevocably, some for better, some for worse, but changed nonetheless. They cannot know what will happen to them, but there is an inevitability in their shared destiny that will prove impossible to withstand...

A Revolution of the Sun tells the story of one momentous year through the eyes of the people who lived it. It is not only their stories, but also the anatomy of a nation in flux. Ambitious, powerful, irresistible, it is the work of a writer at the peak of his powers and once again demonstrates Pears to be a great contemporary novelist.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Doubleday
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0385601182
• ISBN 13: 9780385601184
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible