Smile Please - Couverture rigide

Keates, Jonathan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 070116638X ISBN 13 : 9780701166380

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 2000

Synopsis

A novel set in post-Cool Britannia. The story centres around the complicated lives of a group of city dwellers longing to dodge the Millenium and escape to the country. The author treats his characters with satirical irony and compassion for their human weaknesses.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

At three in the morning, in a gay club somewhere in London's Bermondsey, Adam Killigrew comes face to face with Nemesis - wreathed in an unknown boy's devastating grin. Maybe it's just a question of smiling back? But life offers more complications for Adam, and for his lodger Theo, the black actor busy reinventing himself as an expensive luxury for mysterious Guy from Bayswater. Others are caught in the web: blue-blooded Daisy, muse and fixer, who needs to stay in control; Serena, her sister, and country wife to the perfect Jeremy; Frankie, the dancing divo with whom Adam falls in love; and sibylline Alice, the third sister, who knows all their secrets and one or two more.

This is a comedy of jaded city lives, of sex and secrets, of the urge to end the game. To dodge the Millennium and flee to the country. But can this smiling crew make their escape? With his unerring satirist's eye, softened by a wry indulgence towards human weakness. Jonathan Keates mixes the irony and compassion in a stylish, poignant and entertaining novel of post-Cool Britannia.

Revue de presse

"Keates is an immensely elegant writer...with its wit, graceful contrictuon, snappy dialogue, Smile Please is a novel that Woody Allen might have written had he been a gay Londoner" (Independent)

"Always entertaining...sympathetic and absorbing" (Observer)

"Elegant, humane and highly intelligent" (Times Literary Supplement)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 070116638X
• ISBN 13: 9780701166380
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 329
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible