The Conclave - Couverture souple

Bracewell, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0436200201 ISBN 13 : 9780436200205

Editeur : Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1992

Synopsis

A novel by the author of "Divine Concepts of Physical Beauty". It charts the first 31 years of the life of a suburban dilettante with aesthetic aspirations, who begins a lucrative career at the start of the Eighties. The story roams from the edge of London's suburbia to the nice part of Bristol.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

A breathtakingly good novel --Guardian

Positively bubbles with a mischievous eloquence --New Statesman

Capuchin has quietly built up a stylish, distinctive reprint list that takes in both fixtures from the canon (Swift to Tolstoy) and under-appreciated gems from more recent decades. Just as novelists queue up to try the great City boom-and-bust novel of the early 21st century, this timely re-issue shows how elegantly and movingly Michael Bracewell commanded this terrain for the Thatcherite 1980s. First published in 1992, The Conclave follows the aesthete-turned-City slicker Martin and his high-maintenance partner Marilyn through the gilded delights, and disappointments, of London's last gross spending binge. Tender, acute, dense with rich detail of those narcissistic times, Bracewell's chronicle shuns cheap satire and lends his Yuppie couple a Gatsby-like melancholy in the midst of affluence. Let's hope he returns to fiction soon. --The Independent

Biographie de l'auteur

Michael Bracewell - Michael Bracewell is a British writer, born in 1958. His first novel, The Crypto-Amnesia Club was published in 1988. In addition to several other novels Bracewell is also author of numerous works of non-fiction on subjects ranging from Oscar Wilde to Roxy Music and all aspects of pop culture in between. He has also written and presented documentaries for the BBC. He lives in London. Anthony Gardner - In his role over recent years as Editor of the Royal Society of Literature's annual Review, Anthony Gardner has built a reputation for fine judgment and eclectic scholarship in the field of recent English letters.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0436200201
• ISBN 13: 9780436200205
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible