Disobedience - Couverture rigide

Hamilton, Jane

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0385601905 ISBN 13 : 9780385601900

Editeur : Doubleday, 2001

Synopsis

When 17-year-old Henry Shaw accidentally stumbles into his mother's email file and finds her confession of infidelity, he can's resistbecoming an electronic eavesdropper. For a year he monitors her correspondence with her lover. But his confused feelings colour his attitude towards love and sex.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Reading someone else's e-mail is a quiet, clean enterprise. There is no pitter-pattering around the room, no opening and closing the desk drawers, no percussive creasing as you draw the paper from the envelope and unfold it . . . In and out of the files, no trace. It could be the work of a ghost, this electronic eavesdropping.

Seventeen-year-old Henry Shaw learns of his mother's passionate affair when he stumbles across her e-mail correspondence with her lover. His image of her is shattered, but he cannot resist his electronic eavesdropping. Henry's younger sister, Elvira, is scornful of technology, stuck as she is in 1862 with her Civil War infantry regiment. For Elvira, much to her mother's sorrow and her historian father's pride, is a hardcore Civil War re-enactor. Displaced from Vermont to Chicago, each member of the Shaw family finds their dreams hard to realize and their expectations of life turned on their head. Disobedience is a compassionate, sharp, wicked and utterly contemporary novel about families, love and loyalty by a major literary talent.

Revue de presse

"It is hard to separate what happens on Hamilton's pages from real life - that is the hallmark of an extraordinary talent." (Irish Tatler)

"Both delightful and profound. For lovers of writers such as Shields and Tyler, Jane Hamilton is unmissable." (Helen Stevenson Daily Mail)

"Jane Hamilton is the chronicler of family relationships; the cartographer of the human heart. In all her books the domestic is turned into the epic . . . lush, easy to read, intense and brimming with dangerous emotions." (Nicci Gerrard Observer)

"As a portrait of the everyday effects of infidelity it is unsettlingly acute. Capturing the sheer oddness and fragility of domestic life, she has told a story that packs a powerful emotional punch with passion and considerable wit . . . Anyone who likes the novels of Anne Tyler or Jane Smiley will find huge enjoyment here." (Terence Blacker The Sunday Times)

"She has been compared to Anne Tyler and Jane Smiley, but in my opinion she is now writing better than either." (Amanda Craig Irish Tatler)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Doubleday
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0385601905
• ISBN 13: 9780385601900
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible