Destiny - Couverture rigide

Parks, Tim

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0436220881 ISBN 13 : 9780436220883

Editeur : Secker, 1999

Synopsis

Physical description; [2], 249 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Suicide victims - Fiction. British - Italy - Fiction. Fathers and sons - Fiction.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

'Some three months after returning to England, and having at last completed that collection of material that, once assembled in a book, must serve to transform a respectable career into a monument -something so comprehensive and final, this was my plan, as to be utterly irreftuable - I received, while standing as chance would have it at the reception desk of the Rembrandt Hotel, Knightsbridge, the phonecal that informed me of my son's suicide.' So unfolds the opening sentence of Tim Park's tenth novel. But why, on receiving this terrible news, does Christopher Burton immediately decide that he must leave his Italian wife of almost thirty years standing? Why does he find it so difficult to focus on his grief for his son? Burton feels his pious, raffish and mercurial wife gave him his life in Italy and his career as the foremost journalist on Italian affairs. But surely she ia also the person who has made life impossible for him. Was their son somehow a victim of their explosive love and hate? Or is that thought simply the expression of a deep paranoia?

Revue de presse

"This brilliant work fizzes with bleak humour and a crackpot energy... a powerfully affecting novel of married life and cultural incompatability... Parks is an exceptionally acute observer of modern life" (Daily Telegraph)

"Tim Parks masterly new novel is... intellectually sophisticated, formally ambitious, and belongs to a cosmopolitan European tradition. But it is one that pays honour to the heart as well as to the mind" (Sunday Times)

"Complex but captivating and exactly observed... A book to digest slowly and savour" (The Times)

"A wilful, hypnotic novel... Destiny gleams with insights into the trade-off between the personal and the political... a stylish, ambitious novel of a life in freefall" (Time Out)

"He can write, at will, like a modern Henry James, proceeding with composure through the labyrinth... Indeed, this is a novel that seems to exist on the brink, on the edge of insanity" (Literary Review)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Secker
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0436220881
• ISBN 13: 9780436220883
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 256