The Insult - Couverture rigide

Thomson, Rupert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0679446729 ISBN 13 : 9780679446729

Editeur : Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Thomson Rupert

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

"We are in the dark side of the brain--full of grief and deliciously strange comedy. I've never read anything like it."
--Michael Ondaatje

With this eerie, provocative, and utterly original novel, Rupert Thomson takes the psychological thriller into unexplored territory. Martin Blom is walking toward his car in a supermarket parking lot when a single random bullet pierces his brain. From that moment he is blind--his doctor says permanently. But then one evening Martin discovers what is either a genuine miracle or a delusion suffered occasionally by the newly blind: in the dark, he can see.

Armed with this ambiguous gift, Thomson's protagonist enters a nocturnal world of strip clubs and sleazy hotels. In that world, an alluring young woman may give herself to the one man she thinks is unable to see her, only to vanish inexplicably. In that world, a blind man may become a murder suspect. And in the gorgeously disorienting world of The Insult, reality itself is a consensual hallucination. And you succumb to it at your own risk.  

"Reads like an unholy collaboration between Oliver Sacks and Edgar Allan Poe."  --Time Out

"Thomson is a master stylist, a virtuoso of the hallucinatory image, a writer with a dark vision and a bright future."  --Washington Post

Biographie de l'auteur

Rupert Thomson was born in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, and studied Medieval History and Political Thought at the University of Cambridge. His highly acclaimed works include novels Secrecy, The Five Gates of Hell, Death of a Murderer, The Book of Revelation, Soft!, and The Insult, and a memoir, This Party's Got to Stop. In 2015, Thomson was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0679446729
• ISBN 13: 9780679446729
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 406
• Éditeur: Fisketjon Gary
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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