Caravan Thieves - Couverture rigide

Woodward, Gerard

3,68

50 �valuations de Goodreads

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0701177608 ISBN 13 : 9780701177607

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 2008

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Quatri�me de couverture :

'Brilliantly unsettling...original...the voices he creates are compelling' Observer

'Uncanny, absurd and at times macabre, these stories magically combine a poet's eye for imagery with a novelist's complexity of theme' Financial Times

Caravan Thieves is a beguiling, disconcerting, marvellously readable collection of stories by the Booker-shortlisted author of August and I'll Come to Bed at Noon. Full of his trademark mixture of humour, pathos, disappointed families and dysfunctional lives they include an ostracised small-town puppeteer, a commuter who fails to recognise his ex-wife, a bereaved academic working in the college kitchens after his part in a sex scandal and a family who wake up to find their caravan has been mysteriously transported overnight...

'He writes with subtlety and skill...beautifully manipulating the language which veers and soars from the vernacular to the high-flown and summoning characters that are at once believable and sympathetic' Daily Telegraph

'In clean, uncomplicated prose inlaid with images of striking lyricism, Woodward explores the bizarre possibilities of ordinary people's lives' Sunday Telegraph

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Most of these vivid and unsettling stories are rooted in apparently everyday lives and situations, but suddenly become surreal or disturbing - reading them feels sometimes as though you're walking along in the real world and suddenly step off an edge into a void, where rules of gravity and normality have disappeared but life carries on ... They're full of Woodward's trademark mix of humour, pathos, dysfunctional families and disappointed lives, as well as dazzling moments of illumination, perfect imagery, beautiful writing and intimations of mortality (in 'A Ford Mondeo' and 'Gardening').

But this time there's infidelity ('Pangea Ultima', 'Milk', 'Cleopatra', 'Firemen'), curdled sex ('Firemen' again, and 'Chicken Pox'), strange jobs in kitchens and sandwich bars which involve betrayal and revenge (as in 'Hygiene' or 'Strawberries'). And the title comes from 'Rape' where a caravan (a nice Fleetwood Marauder) seems to have been lifted from its regular berth at Glenmore Caravan Park in the middle of the night to land it and its occupants in a field in the middle of nowhere... which leads to unaccustomed and violent fantasies.

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