Feather Man - Couverture souple

McMaster, Rhyll

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0714531480 ISBN 13 : 9780714531489

Editeur : Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Book by McMaster Rhyll

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Set in Brisbane during the stultifying 1950s, and moving to grubby London in the 1970s, Feather Man is about Sooky who, ignored and misunderstood by her parents, is encouraged to make herself scarce and visit Lionel, their elderly next door neighbour. After initially befriending Sooky, Lionel moves towards violation. The early pages of Feather Man are full of beguiling though disturbing, shocking images of suburban life in Brisbane in the 1950s. Sooky is surrounded by objects and social rituals that have become, for some people, powerfully nostalgic emblems. The Thor washing machine thunders away. A kookaburra is perched on the oven door. Sooky's mother is often chained to the treadmill of her sewing machine. This is, nevertheless, a dark world. The novel follows Sooky through four relationships with men, and her entry into the art world, but the truth is, she is never able to survive unless a relationship is providing the context, however bad it may be. This dark comedy of manners reveals the fictions of the heart in an edgy and dangerous work of portraiture.

Revue de presse

Rhyll McMaster's debut novel is simultaneously a portrait of an artist, an examination of the emotional alchemy from which art is born and a coming-of-age tale... The juxtaposition of mystery and harsh grit lends the book a compelling friction. --Helen Oyeyemi

Feather Man is at once both unflinching and poetic. McMaster's unique perspective illuminates the hidden corners of the lives she portrays. --Catherin O'Flynn

Let me say first that Rhyll McMaster is an extraordinary writer. Her prose is dazzling, poetic and thought-provoking, and this is literary fiction at its best...I have likened Rhyll McMaster to Margaret Atwood. Atwood is brilliant, but in my view McMaster is even better...my money is on Feather Man making the Booker Prize longlist here. --Lisa Glass, Vulpes Libris

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0714531480
• ISBN 13: 9780714531489
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 309
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne