Apples - Couverture souple

Milward, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571232825 ISBN 13 : 9780571232826

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Milward Richard

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'A confident, no-holds-barred, and bizarrely optimistic story - a fairy tale with plenty of heart.' -- Sunday Business Post

'Dazzling ... I loved Apples ... If I were an adolesent, I'd read and re-read [it] until it fell apart.'
-- www.thebookbag.co.uk

'It's one of the best books I've ever read about being young, working-class and British.'
-- Irvine Welsh

'The moment I started reading I was hooked ... Milward writes with ferocious, infectious energy [and] sharp, black wit.' -- Mail on Sunday

'This exuberant debut will appeal to fans of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting; and has the advantage of being written by someone still under 25.' -- The Times

'Written with naive candour [and] ... with appealing freshness and humour.' -- Guardian

Its provocative subject matter is the least striking thing about the novel: what is fascinating about it is Milward. Already he possesses an iodiosyncratic style that many writers go whole careers without discovering: vehicle for a meticulous, alcopop-fuelled assembly of dramatic monologues with spurts of surrealism and few false notes....the narrative retains a resolute cheeriness. Life may be a bitch, but youth itself has everything to play for. -- The Times

Milward's depiction of life on the estate, and the complexity of his characters and their predicaments is funny, tragic and honest, giving a sympathetic and intelligent voice to Britain's often misrepresented underclass. Colourful, exciting and funny, the book is a coming-of-age novel full of an unnerving blackness that Adam, Eve and the rest of the characters in the fallen world have to overcome
--Leeds Guide Book of the Fortnight - Awarded Four Stars

Richard Milward - barely in his double digits and this boy can WRITE! Apples is our little joy of the month --the Guardian - Going Up

Richard Milward's no-holds-barred debut is the story of a boy nnamed Adam and a girl named Eve...alongside chapters told by Adam and Eve are esoteric interludes where the narrator is a butterfly or an unborn baby, and each time Milward acquits himself brilliantly...Apples is an electrifying book, as frightening as it is funny, full of words that will have you running to urbandictionary.com, before cunningly using them in your own everyday speech.
--The Times

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Adapted for stage, Apples is set on a Middlesbrough council estate, this astonishing piece of writing by 23 year old Richard Milward, is an electrifying collision of Irvine Welsh and Virginia Woolf. Streams of poetic, impassioned and often hilarious words pour from five fifteen year olds as they negotiate a world where the adults are absent, drugs are everywhere, sex is desperate and life is both terrifying and thrilling. A dazzling, tragicomic love story of adolescence based on the astonishing debut novel by Richard Milward. Shameless, ruthless and intensely poetic, Apples articulates what it is like to be young. APPLES which won a coveted Bank of Scotland Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last week which is awarded for excellence in the Edinburgh Festival. For more information see: http://applestheplay.co.uk/about/herald-angel-award/

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0571232825
• ISBN 13: 9780571232826
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208