Incendiary - Couverture souple

Cleave, Chris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0701179058 ISBN 13 : 9780701179052

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 2005

Synopsis

A massive terrorist attack on Arsenal's new stadium - a woman grieving for her husband and son - a unique, twisted powerhouse of a novel. Angry, funny, heart-rending and subversive, few first novels are as compelling as this one. From the first sentence of her open letter to Osama Bin Laden, Incendiary's unforgettable narrator won't let you go, and her cry of raw outrage at the murder of her family rapidly develops into something very unexpected. Part thriller, part satire, part memorial to a dead child, it shows us an East End woman trying every way she can to climb out of despair, and a society in the grip of fear and self-interest. It is a story in which everyone is compromised - where personal betrayals reflect national ones, and Britain's class system is a ticking bomb. Shocking but tender, brutal yet hopeful, Incendiary forces us to see what we'd rather not see, yet never fails to entertain. The writing moves from horror to humour with terrifying ease. The power of the storytelling is mesmerising. Cleave has pinned a generation down on the mat and refused to allow it up till it admits it's rotten.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Chris Cleave was born in London in 1973. He has a first from Balliol College, Oxford, in Experimental Psychology. After trying out various career paths, including sailing in the Mediterranean and bar work in Melbourne (where he broke the record for carrying greatest number of highball glasses lifted on a wire tray from the shoulder on to a straight arm - 88), he worked at the Daily Telegraph for three years, and then for Martha Lane Fox at lastminute.com. He left there in 2003 to concentrate on writing full time. He lives in Paris with his wife and son.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0701179058
• ISBN 13: 9780701179052
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible